A housewife was allegedly slaughtered by unidentified assailants at her house in Gabtali upazila of Bogura on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Rita Rani Majumder, 45, wife of Biplab Chandra Roy of Mominhata Southpara area of the upazila, reports UNB. The victim’s husband said he wok
A Dhaka court has sentenced Bidisha Ershad, the former wife of late president Hussain Muhammad Ershad, to two years of rigorous imprisonment in a fraud case involving the sale of a residential flat. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Jamshed Alam delivered the verdict on Wednesday. The prosecution's l
A fisherman has been shot dead in the Sundarbans while collecting crabs, triggering a violent attack on a Forest Department office and leaving five officials injured in retaliatory unrest. The incident took place near Shatamukhi Canal under the Khulna Range on Monday morning, Shyamnagar Police chi
Police have recovered the body of a man in Alamdanga upazila of Chuadanga. The family alleges that he was killed on suspicion of theft, reports bdnews24.com. The body of the young man, named Dudu Hossain, was recovered from the Bantgach Tala area adjacent to Housepur Bridge on Sunday night, said
A man was killed, and his wife was injured in an attack by burglars who broke into their house by cutting through the mud wall in the Madhya Maheshwaripur area of Maheshwaripur union in Koyra upazila of Khulna early Monday. The deceased, Bhabatosh Mridha, was a local businessman. He ran a pharmacy
Police have recovered the bodies of a couple and their 8-month-old child from the house of a relative in Madaripur. The three bodies were recovered late on Sunday night in the town’s Amirabad, according to Abul Kalam Azad, chief of Madaripur Sadar Model Police Station. The dead have been id
A court in Dhaka on Sunday placed three people on a two-day remand each in a case lodged over an attack on the shrine of Hazrat Shah Ali in the capital’s Mirpur on May 14. The three accused are Md Azam, Sheikh Md Sajjadul Haque Russel, and Arman Dewan. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Arifur R
Detectives in a drive arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 25,600 Yaba tablets from the Jatrabari area of the capital on Saturday. The arrestee was identified as Mohammad Helal Uddin, 30. Tipped off, a team of DB police conducted a drive near Sentu Filling Station in the area around 8:30 p
A woman in Shariatpur has been detained after allegedly killing her husband during a domestic row and dismembering his body before attempting to conceal the remains in a neighbour’s refrigerator. She was reportedly caught after the smell raised suspicion, reports bdnews24.com. Palang Model
Police have recovered the bodies of a woman and her minor daughter buried near a pond at Ansardangi village in Sadar upazila of Faridpur. The deceased were identified as Jahanara Akhter, 32, wife of Amjad Sheikh of Parashullah Matubbar Para in Char Daulatdia of Goalanda upazila in Rajbari, and the
Police arrested an alleged listed criminal and drug trader from the capital’s Banani area early Thursday. They also recovered a foreign-made pistol, yaba tablets and cash from his possession, UNB reports. The arrestee was identified as Zahidul Islam, 31. Quoting Banani Police Station
A case has been filed after a man dragged a student into a bush on the Jahangirnagar University campus and attempted to rape her. He is suspected of being an outsider to the campus. The university administration says that the incident took place after 11:00 pm on Tuesday in an area near the newly
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have come under attack while gathering intelligence on drug traffickers in Natore. The incident occurred in Nabinagar of Lalpur’s Ishwardi at 9:30 pm on Tuesday, said Lalpur Police chief Md Shafiqul Islam. Police later rescued five injured RAB per
