Police have launched a murder investigation after discovering the throat-slit body of a local jeweller inside his locked shop in the Signboard-Bhusirmil area of Gazipur Metropolitan. The victim, 42-year-old Abul Kalam Azad, was found on Sunday afternoon after concerned relatives and fellow shopkeepers broke open the padlocks of Sadia Jewellers. Azad, who originally hailed from […]

Scores of activists affiliated with the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) assembled aboard engine-driven country boats along the Titas River in Brahmanbaria on Sunday, mounting a brazen public gathering and staging an impromptu rally on the riverbank in direct defiance of local administrative prohibitions. The covert demonstration quickly drew widespread attention across the district after photographic […]

A cybercriminal entity operating under the alias “Mudarax” has listed a massive database containing the curricula vitae (CVs) of approximately six million Bangladeshi jobseekers for sale on an illicit dark web forum. The perpetrators claim the vast repository of personal and professional information was exfiltrated directly from Bdjobs, the leading employment and recruitment portal in […]

Police detectives in Rajbari have pieced together the circumstances surrounding the brutal killing of forty-five-year-old Faruk Sheikh, confirming that his younger brother commissioned the homicide to secure an inheritance payout from national savings certificates. Faruk was discovered dead inside his bedroom in Goalando on Saturday afternoon, having sustained grievous lacerations to his throat and had […]

A forty-two-year-old shopkeeper has been taken into police custody on the offshore island upazila of Hatiya, within Noakhali district, following allegations that he sexually assaulted a nine-year-old primary school student inside a local dispensary. The suspect, identified as Mohammad Helal Uddin—commonly known throughout the locality as Helal Master—was apprehended by residents after video footage depicting […]

During the sixteen-year administration of the Awami League in Bangladesh, access to state power increasingly concentrated within influential informal networks. In the twilight phase of the regime, several individuals operating outside official administrative hierarchies began exerting outsized control over party machinery and public institutions. Among the most polarising of these figures was Mashtura Mosharraf Oishika, […]