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Home Minister Salahuddin announces nationwide drive against trafficking, drug smuggling

Dhaka, April 14 -- Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed has announced that a nationwide special drive will soon be launched against human trafficking and drug smuggling. Speaking as the chief guest at a Fa... Read More


Nilphamari farmer found dead with throat slit in temple courtyard

Dhaka, April 14 -- Police have recovered the body of a 55-year-old farmer with his throat slit in the courtyard of a temple in Nilphamari's Jaldhaka Upazila. The body was lying in the front courtyard... Read More


Father 'throws 2-month infant to the floor', killing him

Dhaka, April 14 -- A Chattogram man has killed his two-month-old child after throwing him to the ground because his mother "was late in serving tea". The incident occurred in Charia village in Hathaz... Read More


7 labourers struggling to make a living lose their lives as rice truck overturns in Daudkandi

Dhaka, April 14 -- Inside the morgue of the Cumilla Highway Crossing Police Station, seven bodies lay in a row. Beside one of them, Samiul Islam was wailing, clutching a purple T-shirt in his hands. ... Read More


Former DGFI director Afzal to be quizzed for three more days over Mokbul murder

Dhaka, April 14 -- A Dhaka court has placed retired lieutenant colonel Afzal Naser, a former director of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), on a fresh three-day remand in a case ov... Read More


Man's body found with throat slit in Cumilla

Dhaka, April 14 -- 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... Read More


Bangladesh's sole state refinery nears shutdown as crude crunch bites

Dhaka, April 14 -- Eastern Refinery Limited, Bangladesh's only state-owned oil refining facility in Chattogram, is on the verge of halting production due to a severe crude oil shortage linked to disru... Read More


Key suspect Moin, 2 others remanded in CKD hospital extortion case

Dhaka, April 14 -- A Dhaka court has granted police three days to interrogate three men, including key suspect Moin Uddin, in an extortion case over an incident at the Centre for Kidney Diseases and U... Read More


East West University celebrates Pahela Baishakh 1433

Dhaka, April 14 -- East West University (EWU) has celebrated Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the Bengali New Year 1433, with a range of festivities. The day was met with "great enthusiasm and a wid... Read More


College student hacked to death in Jatrabari; mother, siblings injured

Dhaka, April 14 -- Assailants have broken into a house and hacked a college student to death in the Kajla area of Dhaka's Jatrabari. Attacked with sharp weapons, the woman's mother had her hand cut o... Read More