Police have recovered the body of a young man from under an electric pole on a road in the Boishakhi Swarani area of Middle Badda in the capital. The body was sent to the morgue of Dhaka Medical College for autopsy on Saturday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Md. Zahirul Islam, 22, a res
A Railway Police constable has reportedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot with his own service rifle while on duty in Khulna. The incident occurred on Saturday morning at the Khulna Railway District Office in Sonadanga Residential Area (second phase), according to Railway Police Superintendent
A gang of robbers has reportedly looted gold jewellery and cash worth millions of taka from seven shops, including six jewellery stores, at a market in Madaripur Sadar. The organised gang also tied up and assaulted a witness during the heist at Houseidi Bazar in the Dudhkhali Union. Madaripur Sad
A young man has been stabbed to death and another injured in an attack reportedly by their friends in Khulna’s Phultala upazila. The incident took place around 10:30 pm on Thursday in Damodar union of the upazila, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Sabbir, 23, son of Mostafa, while
A United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) leader was killed and his two sisters were injured in a gun attack on their house in Kutukchhari area under Sadar upazila of Rangamati on Friday morning. The deceased, Dharmasingh Chakma, was the vice president of the central unit of Democratic Youth
Jalal Siddique, joint general secretary of the Chittagong University unit of the Chhatra Dal, has allegedly attacked a shopkeeper on the campus. The incident occurred at a makeshift stall at 9:30 pm on Wednesday. Afterwards, Jalal apologised for the incident. Shopkeeper Hamid Mohammad Sujon was a
Police have recovered the body of a man with his throat slit in Cumilla’s Muradnagar Upazila. His body was found in the southern field of B Chapitala village in Ramchandrapur North Union of the Upazila on Tuesday morning, said Bangra Bazar Police Station chief (OC) Md Abdul Quader. The dead
A 20-year-old college student was killed and three members of her family were injured in a sharp-weapon attack allegedly carried out by a man over an unpaid loan in the capital’s Jatrabari area early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Diya Akter, a student of Borhanuddin College and dau
An alleged key figure in the teen gang crime scene, known as ‘Alex Iman’ (presumably an alias), was killed in a clash between two rival groups over territorial dominance in the capital’s Mohammadpur area on Sunday afternoon. The incident occurred around 4:30 pm on the slope of th
A leader in the Tanti Dal, a BNP-affiliated organisation of weavers, has been hacked to death at a tea stall in Khulna city. The incident occurred around midnight on Saturday in the Nayabati area, according to Md Touhiduzzaman, chief of Khalishpur Police Station. The dead, 38-year-old Sona Mia, i
The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has recovered 1,400 bullets in Panchhari Upazila of Khagrachhari, marking a major ammunition bust in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The ammunition cache was found in the remote Kathaltoli area of Bauddha Monipara on Friday afternoon, said Lt Col Md Rabiul Islam, comm
A 50-year-old man was killed in a clash between two groups of villagers over the naming of a mosque at Galongshah in Sylhet city on Friday. The deceased was identified as Delwar Hossain Dilbar, son of Makhon Mia of Moghalgaon union under Jalalabad Police Station, according to a UNB report. Shamsu
A man has been beaten and hacked to death in Phulbari’s Baniapara area of Bogura district. The incident occurred around 10:00 pm on Sunday, said Almas Ali, officer-in-charge of the Phulbari Police Outpost. Police said that Robin, the victim, had an altercation with locals over plucking cust
