Residents of Raiganj Upazila in Sirajganj staged a protest by surrounding the local office of the Rural Electrification Board after enduring months of severe power outages, disrupting daily life, education, and one of the area’s most important cottage industries. The demonstration took place on Saturday afternoon (27 June) outside the Dhanghara office of the Palli […]

Four young men were detained by local residents and later handed over to police after a foreign-made revolver and five locally made weapons were allegedly recovered from their possession in Hathazari Upazila of Chattogram. The incident occurred late on Saturday (27 June) in the Notunpara area of Chikondondi Union, at a house locally known as […]

Police have arrested a man in Naogaon after he was accused of brutally assaulting his 67-year-old mother and severing a tendon in her leg in an alleged attempt to force her into transferring her property into his name. The suspect, Asaduzzaman Shamim, 37, is a resident of Bastabor village under Alampur Union in Dhamoirhat Upazila. […]

Authorities in Comilla have seized a massive haul of counterfeit and unauthorised medicines, chemical ingredients, and manufacturing machinery during a targeted raid based on intelligence provided by the National Security Intelligence (NSI). A man suspected of being heavily involved in the illicit production and distribution network was arrested during the operation. The Officer-in-Charge (OC) of […]

Two criminal cases have been filed following a Coast Guard operation against the alleged forest-based criminal group known locally as the “Dulabhai Bahini” in the Sundarbans. The cases include charges of murder, attempted murder and illegal possession of firearms. Authorities have also arrested two alleged members of the group, including its suspected leader, after they […]

DHAKA – Mahmud Hasan Ripon, a former Member of Parliament and former central president of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, has strongly condemned the alleged targeted killings of Awami League and Chhatra League activists in the Turag area. In a press statement issued to the media on Saturday, Ripon claimed that the partially decomposed bodies of […]