Cheques worth Tk 1.10 crore handed to 35 families of road accident victims
Financial assistance cheques worth Tk 1.10 crore have been distributed among 35 families of those killed and injured in road accidents in Meherpur. The cheques were distributed at 11am on Wednesday in the deputy commissioner’s conference room at…
Bus search in Jatrabari: Heroin worth Tk 10 lakh found in 65-year-old woman’s clothes
The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) has arrested a 65-year-old woman with 100 grams of heroin in the capital’s Jatrabari. The estimated market value of the recovered heroin is Tk 10 lakh. The arrested woman is Masuma Khatun. She was arrested…
Three including two policemen on 4-day remand over accused’s escape from prison van
A court has placed three accused, including two police personnel, on a four-day remand after they were arrested on charges of helping ‘Pichchi Raja’ alias Raja escape from a prison van on the way to Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur. Judge…
ACC raids NCTB over alleged irregularities in textbook printing tender
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has conducted a drive at the office of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) over allegations of irregularities in the tender for printing free textbooks for the 2027 academic year and the leak of the…
Mechanic killed in AC compressor explosion in Nayapaltan
A mechanic named Jibon Barman, 25, has died in an AC compressor explosion in the capital’s Nayapaltan. The accident took place at a shop named ‘MI Engineering Plus’ in Nayapaltan at around 10:30am on Tuesday (6 October). The deceased…
Three sentenced to death for killing garment worker after mugging in Mirpur
A court has sentenced three accused to death in a case over the killing of a garment worker named Saimon after mugging him in the capital’s Mirpur. In the same case, a man named Sujan has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for buying…
Child Rights Day and 50 years of Shishu Academy celebrated in Meherpur
The celebration of Child Rights Day and the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh Shishu Academy has been inaugurated. On Tuesday morning, the prime minister inaugurated the Child Rights Day 2026 and Bangladesh Shishu Academy 50th anniversary celebration…
Young man called out of home and hacked to death in Narail
In Kalia upazila of Narail, people of a rival group called a man named Arafat Mollah (39) out of his home and hacked him to death. The incident took place beside his own house at Debdun village of the upazila at around 11:30pm on Monday (5 October). The…
Husband sentenced to death for beating wife to death in Lalmonirhat
A court has sentenced husband Md Atikul Islam to death in a case over brutally beating his wife to death in Lalmonirhat. At the same time, he has been fined Tk 20,000, in default of which he will have to serve six more months of simple imprisonment. In…
Teenage girl abducted from mother at court premises, accused arrested
In connection with the incident of a teenage girl being forcibly taken away from her mother at the court premises in Noakhali, a crack team of CPC-3 of the Special Response Battalion (SRB-11) has conducted a drive, rescued the girl and arrested accused…