A 27-year-old soldier serving with the Bangladesh Army died by suicide inside his residential accommodation at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project site in Ishwardi, Pabna, on Saturday evening. The deceased soldier has been identified as Sajib Molla, who was quartered in the Snigdha Building within the official military barracks compound in the Pakshi Paper […]

Widespread load-shedding disrupted daily life across Bangladesh on Saturday, unsettling what is traditionally a lower-demand weekend as generation dipped significantly across major coal-fired power stations and cross-border electricity imports dwindled. By late afternoon, national transmission records showed grid deficits surpassing 1,900 megawatts (MW), leaving households and businesses across Dhaka facing multiple rounds of rotational blackouts […]

Enforcement officers from the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) have intercepted an Indian national at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka for attempting to smuggle three kilograms of premium-grade kush into the country. The arrest comes amid heightened vigilance at the international gateway, following a related incident earlier in the week where two fellow Indian […]

Intelligence agencies and law enforcement authorities across Bangladesh have intensified counter-terrorism vigilance following a direct attack threat targeted at the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka. The threat, issued via an electronic mail dispatch on Wednesday night purportedly by an extremist militant organisation, spurred senior counter-terrorism commanders and police headquarters to conduct urgent security appraisals with the […]

A veterinary practitioner in Mymensingh was subjected to a violent physical assault, his surgery ransacked, and a substantial sum of cash stolen by a group allegedly led by a local student political figure. The victim reported that the coordinated attack occurred after he repeatedly refused to comply with an extortion demand of 500,000 taka. As […]

An acute shortage of natural gas across Bangladesh’s premier manufacturing corridors has brought heavy industrial activity to a standstill, forcing nearly 300 readymade garment factories to shut down entirely. Sounding a grave warning on Saturday evening, Mohammad Hatem, President of the Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA), stated that factory owners find themselves pushed […]

The felling of approximately 4,500 mature roadside trees along a 19-kilometre stretch of the Sunamganj-Sachna highway has triggered widespread public indignation across the north-eastern haor basin. The logging operation, initiated by the Forest Department across land managed by the Roads and Highways Department (RHD), has proceeded despite highway engineers confirming that no infrastructure expansion or […]

Dhaka Metropolitan Police has withdrawn the officers in charge of two major capital police stations, Tejgaon and Paltan Model, citing administrative grounds in a fresh operational reshuffle. The official directive was issued on Saturday under an administrative order signed by Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mosleh Uddin Ahmed. In accordance with the notification, both station chiefs […]