Four members of the Bangladesh Railway Police have been withdrawn from duty and attached to the Paksey Railway Police Lines after a woman was allegedly raped inside the catering car of a moving intercity train. Authorities confirmed the administrative action on Wednesday, stating that a comprehensive investigation is underway to determine the extent of the […]

Two more children have succumbed to measles and its severe complications in the Sylhet division within the last 24 hours, taking the total death toll from the outbreak across the region to 154. The latest fatalities were officially confirmed by Dr Mohammad Nure Alam Shamim, Assistant Director of the Sylhet Health Directorate. Among the deceased, […]

A search operation continues along the Bhairab River after a passenger-laden trawler capsized following a collision with a ferry near Jelkhana Ghat in Khulna. The accident occurred at around 9:45 pm on Tuesday in the stretch of water between Jelkhana Ghat and Senerbazar Ghat, leaving 27-year-old Rakib Khan missing while 30 to 40 other commuters […]

Security forces operating along Bangladesh’s southeastern frontier have intercepted a major narcotics smuggling operation, seizing 14 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, 5,000 methamphetamine pills locally known as yaba, and 20 bottles of foreign liquor in separate raids near Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar. The operations, conducted jointly by the Coast Guard stations of Teknaf and Shah Pari’s Island, […]

A 62-year-old man was brutally hacked to death in the Rangunia upazila of Chittagong late on Tuesday night, following a heated altercation linked to a longstanding family marriage dispute. The victim, identified as Abdul Mannan, son of the late Nur Mohammad, was a resident of the Hafez Bazlur Rahman house in Betagi Union’s Ward 7. […]

Five more people have succumbed to Aedes mosquito-borne dengue fever across Bangladesh over the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll from the disease to 102 this year. The latest figures were released on Tuesday in a regular bulletin issued by the Directorate General of Health Services. According to the health directorate, 1,324 new […]

A young man has been apprehended by the Rapid Action Battalion for allegedly exploiting a romantic relationship to secretly capture intimate videos and photographs of a woman, and subsequently demanding money under threat of uploading the media to the internet. The suspect, identified as 28-year-old Rafid Sikdar, is the sole named accused in a formal […]

A woman named Newaz Chowdhury Mitu has died following a fire that broke out in a rented apartment on the seventh floor of a residential building in the capital’s Mohammadpur area. The incident unfolded in the early hours of Tuesday at approximately 03:30 local time. The flat is situated at house number 15 on road […]

Four unarmed police inspectors serving in different units of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) have been transferred and assigned to new posts, with one officer appointed as the new officer-in-charge (OC) of Tejgaon Police Station. The changes were announced in an official order signed by DMP Commissioner Mosleh Uddin Ahmed on Tuesday, 1 September. The […]