4+ hour, 48+ min ago   (275+ words) Journalist Pulak Chatterjee, who was found dead at the Barishal bureau office of Bangla daily Samakal on Friday, left behind five notes describing his distress over prolonged illness and unemployment, police said. Pulak was a former general secretary of the…...

5+ hour, 10+ min ago   (608+ words) For Saidul Islam, the nearly 380-kilometre distance between Narayanganj and Nilphamari did not mean days of waiting behind bars after he secured bail. The 30-year-old, arrested by Nilphamari district police in a drug case filed with Fatullah Police Station, was…...

8+ hour, 53+ min ago   (420+ words) Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has arrested five people from different parts of the country for allegedly selling citizens’ personal information online after obtaining it from government servers. The arrestees are Abdus Salam Sarkar of Naogaon, Subrata Chandra Pal of Gazipur,…...

9+ hour, 37+ min ago   (381+ words) A local BNP leader has been accused of assaulting a shop owners’ association president in Narayanganj in his shop based on what his family described as “false allegations of links to the Awami League”, whose activities are banned. The victim,…...

10+ hour, 12+ min ago   (195+ words) A court in Habiganj this afternoon sentenced two men to death for raping and murdering a teenage girl in Nabiganj upazila, Habiganj, in 2021. Judge Syeda Minhaj Um Munira of Habiganj Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-3 handed down the verdict…...

12+ hour, 12+ min ago   (428+ words) The family of a shop owners’ association president in Narayanganj has accused a local BNP leader of assaulting him at his shop based on what they described as false allegations of links to the Awami League, whose activities are banned....

14+ hour, 3+ min ago   (201+ words) A 35-year-old man was allegedly set on fire after unidentified assailants poured petrol on him in Muktagacha upazila of Mymensingh on Wednesday night. The victim, Farhad Hossain, died while undergoing treatment at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) today. The incident…...

12+ hour, 54+ min ago   (446+ words) Police say they have found links between a Bangladeshi man arrested in a drug case and 63 foreign nationals detained last Thursday from an eight-storey building in Chattogram’s Khulshi area over their alleged involvement in an online scam. The man, identified…...

23+ hour, 53+ min ago   (176+ words) Police recovered the decomposed and dismembered body of an unidentified woman from a suitcase found in a canal in Gazipur’s Bhabanipur area this evening. The suitcase was recovered from the canal beside a building in the Fakiragor area of Bhawalgarh…...

19+ hour, 58+ min ago   (599+ words) In a bid to prevent road crash fatalities, all public and private hospitals will be legally obligated to provide immediate treatment to road crash victims without asking preliminary questions under the proposed “Road Safety Act, 2026”. Drafted by the Road Transport…...