Fourteen children have fallen ill in Meherpur’s Gangni upazila after mistakenly consuming a poisonous fruit they believed to be almonds, prompting emergency medical treatment and hospitalisation. The incident occurred on Sunday afternoon in Saharbaty village when the children were playing in a field, as they regularly do after school. While playing near a roadside area, […]

A formal complaint has been lodged at Ishwarganj University Police Station in Kushtia district against six individuals over alleged derogatory remarks and disrespect towards the July Movement and its commemorative symbols. The complaint claims that the accused publicly made offensive comments about the movement and circulated misleading statements across social media platforms, sparking concern among […]

Dhaka, 6 July: Bangladesh continues to face a worrying measles outbreak, with health authorities reporting three additional suspected measles-related deaths over the past 24 hours. During the same period, 1,106 people were newly identified with symptoms or confirmed infection, underlining the continued spread of the highly contagious viral disease across the country. According to a […]

A special court in Bangladesh has sentenced a 26-year-old man to death for the brutal rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in the Noakhali district. Farzana Akhtar, the presiding judge of the Noakhali Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2, delivered the verdict in a packed courtroom on Monday afternoon. The convict, Mohammad Shahadat, a […]