A 62-year-old Awami League leader was allegedly beaten to death following a long-running dispute over land and grazing grounds in a remote riverine char area of Bogura’s Sariakandi upazila. The incident took place on Monday night near Nantur Mor in Pakuria Char, a remote area of Kajla Union along the Jamuna River. The victim, Moslem […]

A Jamaat-e-Islami leader has been sent to jail in connection with the murder of an elderly woman in Lakshmipur, following the rejection of his bail petition by a court. The accused, Abu Bakar Siddique, appeared before the Lakshmipur Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal on Monday (3 August) and sought bail. The court rejected his […]

Two men were detained in Dhaka’s Keraniganj on Monday over allegations that signatures of an executive magistrate and other officials, including Assistant Commissioner (Land) Jannatul Mawa, were forged to file a miscellaneous land case. One of the men was handed over to police, while the other was released after signing an undertaking, according to the […]

A train steward has been arrested in Chattogram after the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-7) reportedly recovered 4,850 yaba tablets from his shoulder bag during an operation at Chattogram Railway Station. The detainee has been identified as 20-year-old Md Mahabur Rahman, a resident of Nolchhia village in Melandaha upazila of Jamalpur. RAB-7 confirmed the arrest and […]

Dhaka’s Government Madrasah-e-Alia area witnessed clashes, attacks and repeated chases between activists of the Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir and the Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chhatra Dal on Tuesday, leaving several people reportedly injured and disrupting traffic along a busy road. The violence began in the afternoon and continued intermittently, with tensions escalating in several phases. Witnesses said […]

Three Bangladeshi nationals have been killed and another seriously injured following an alleged clash among co-workers in Taman Linggi, in Malaysia’s Port Dickson district, Negri Sembilan state. Police have detained a 40-year-old Bangladeshi man in connection with the incident. Negri Sembilan police chief Datuk Alzafny Ahmad said officers from the Linggi police station went to […]