A joint enforcement operation at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka has resulted in the seizure of approximately 19 kilogrammes of gold bars from a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight arriving from Dubai. The recovered gold is estimated to have a market value of around Tk450 million, making it one of the significant recent gold seizures […]

An eight-year-old girl was killed after being thrown from a motorcycle and crushed beneath a tractor while travelling home with her parents in Boda Upazila of Panchagarh district. The tragic road accident also left both of her parents seriously injured and has once again highlighted concerns over road safety on Bangladesh’s highways. The fatal incident […]

Police have recovered the body of a newborn baby wrapped in cloth from a rubbish dump in front of the district food warehouse in the Binodpur area of Rajbari Sadar Upazila, in an incident that has shocked local residents and prompted a police investigation. The body was recovered at around 9:30 am on Thursday after […]

A Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) candidate died after falling from the rooftop of a multi-storey building in Mymensingh just hours before she was due to sit the first examination of the 2026 HSC and equivalent examinations, leaving family members, fellow students and the local community in deep shock. The tragic incident occurred at around 6:00 […]

The Bangladesh Election Commission has drafted a comprehensive roadmap to conduct upcoming local government polls, with blueprints prepared separately for Union Parishads, Upazila Parishads, municipalities (Pourashavas), and City Corporations. Officials intend to finalise and publish the strategy by the end of this month, paving the way for the official schedule announcement in the latter half […]