Unofficial payments demanded for grid connections in Patuakhali For generations, families residing in the remote villages of Islampur and Dakshin Charpara within the Mithaganj Union of Kalapara Upazila have navigated daily life without access to a reliable electricity supply. Recently, however, hope for electrification arrived in the region following administrative directives facilitated through local parliamentary […]

Police in Habiganj have arrested Russell Mia, 27, president of the Chunarughat upazila unit of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act. He was arrested at around 1.45am on Tuesday, 18 August, from the Aiton-Syedabad area of Chunarughat. Police said the arrest followed a late-night operation based on confidential information. […]

A devastating head-on collision between a heavy, rod-laden lorry and a pickup van along the vital Dhaka-Pabna highway has claimed two lives and left another person injured, triggering temporary traffic chaos in Sirajganj’s Ullapara upazila. The tragic incident occurred in the early hours of Tuesday, at approximately 4:30 AM, near Patdhari village. The victims travelling […]

A tragic road accident occurred early on Tuesday morning along the Rajbari-Kushtia regional highway in the Kalukhali upazila of Rajbari district, claiming the life of a commercial lorry driver. The victim has been identified as twenty-eight-year-old Md Nazrul Islam, son of Abdul Malek Miah from Bakal village in the Agailjhara upazila of Barishal. According to […]