A fourteen-year-old boy has sustained severe injuries in Shariatpur’s Zanjira upazila after a homemade explosive device, mistaken by a friend for a plaything, detonated unexpectedly on Tuesday morning. The victim, identified as Md Kamrul, son of Rajjak Bepari, is a resident of Purbab Naodoba Union’s Phedulla Bepari Kandi village. The incident occurred around 11:00 am […]

Bangladesh is facing a severe surge in mosquito-borne illness as the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) confirmed nine additional dengue-related deaths and 1,902 new hospital admissions across the country in its daily bulletin issued on Monday, 5 October. The latest casualties push the nationwide death toll from the vector-borne viral disease to 271 for […]

An unidentified elderly man, estimated to be around 60 years old, was pronounced dead after being found unconscious near the emergency department waiting room at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Tuesday morning. Hospital personnel discovered the non-responsive individual close to the waiting area shortly before 9:15 am and immediately transferred him inside for treatment. […]

A fatal sequence of road crashes on the Dhaka-Mawa Expressway at Srinagar upazila in Munshiganj has claimed the life of a motorcyclist and left a bus passenger injured. The double collision unfolded within a brief interval during the early hours of Tuesday on the Dhaka-bound lane at the Sholaghar Bhuichitra spot. The deceased motorcyclist was […]

A metropolitan session court in Dhaka has sentenced three men to death for the mugging and murder of Saymon, a young garment worker slain at the Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals Memorial. The court also fined each of the condemned convicts 20,000 Bangladeshi taka. A fourth individual, identified as Sujon, was handed a three-year custodial sentence alongside […]

Security protocols at the lower courts in Dhaka have come under severe scrutiny once again after a high-profile detainee managed to escape custody on Tuesday (6 October). Shariful Islam, a notorious inmate transported from Kashimpur High Security Central Jail, vanished from the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court premises while being escorted back to the […]