8,535 reports translated from the Bengali original, most recent first. বাংলা সংস্করণ
SIRAJGANJ - A wedding in Sirajganj's Shahjadpur upazila collapsed Friday after a fight broke out over the customary hiding of the groom's shoes, with the groom's party leaving without the bride.
NAOGAON - Dried-fish production in Bhor Tetulia village of Naogaon's Atrai upazila, long known as the country's dried-fish village, has dropped sharply this season due to a shortage of native fish, traders said.
NAOGAON - Police detained four people in a district-wide crackdown on narcotics in Naogaon and seized 45 kg of cannabis along with other illegal drugs, officials said Sunday.
CHAPAINAWABGANJ - The Chhota Sonamasjid, a stone mosque built during the sultanate era in Chapainawabganj, is drawing growing numbers of domestic and foreign visitors, residents said.
CHAPAINAWABGANJ - The government has authorized the import of 900 metric tonnes of onion through the Sonamasjid land port in Chapainawabganj, an official said Monday.
The government has approved the import of 900 metric tonnes of onion through the Sonamasjid land port in Chapainawabganj, a plant-quarantine official said, as the first trucks crossed from India and pushed local retail…
CHAPAINAWABGANJ - A BNP candidate in Chapainawabganj-2 has drawn widespread criticism after telling supporters that once the party forms the government, "there will be no one to speak against me. What I say will…
SIRAJGANJ - Adarsha Group has accused the officer-in-charge and a sub-inspector at Sirajganj's Raiganj police station of misappropriating 13,950 liters of palm oil seized from one of the company's trucks. The seized oil is…
CHAPAINAWABGANJ - Tarikul Islam, from Alinagar village in Chapainawabganj's Gomastapur upazila, dropped out of school after the second grade. Stricken with polio in childhood, he lost the use of part of his body -…
LAKSHMIPUR - Charruhita union Jamaat-e-Islami organized a day-long free medical camp on behalf of ESIUM Ruhul Amin Bhuiyan, the Jamaat candidate for the Lakshmipur-2 (Raipur) constituency, providing care to more than 500 patients.
Chandraganj police seized five rifles and one locally made shotgun, wrapped in paper, from a graveyard in Noakhali's Begumganj upazila on Dec. 7.
Police arrested Nur Uddin Jiku in Rangamati on Tuesday, accusing him of manufacturing firearms under cover of his auto workshop in Chandraganj.
Consumer rights officials fined a hotel near a hospital after finding it used congealed beef fat to cook fish, chicken and curries, and stored stale food.
Half the units at the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation estate in Lakshmipur remain idle as gas, water, road and security problems frustrate entrepreneurs.
The Makimpur zamindar house in Sirajganj’s Raiganj upazila, built in 1885, draws visitors daily even as its lime plaster crumbles and authorities take no action to preserve it.
Training began Saturday at the regional population training institute in Kazipur upazila, built at a cost of nearly 20 crore taka and inaugurated online in March 2023.
Maulana Rafiqul Islam Khan, an assistant secretary general of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, said at a memorial in Sirajganj that Osman Hadi was killed in a planned attack.
A discussion and prayer meeting was held Saturday in Sirajganj’s Belkuchi upazila to mourn Sharif Osman Hadi, who died Dec. 18 in Singapore after being shot.
The Anti-Corruption Commission has begun an inquiry into former Sirajganj-5 MP Abdul Momin Mondol and his personal assistant on allegations of embezzling state project funds.
Rakibul Islam Swadhin, 22, has been missing since a trawler accident at sea during an illegal voyage to Italy. His father paid 25 lakh taka to send him.
A rally and discussion at Sarail upazila offices marked International Migrants Day on Thursday, with Assistant Commissioner (Land) Sharmin Akter as chief guest.
A Sunni religious gathering organized by local youth in Bancharampur on Wednesday drew BNP and Krishak Dal leaders, with Mehedi Hasan Polash as chief guest.
Tapas, a former BNP nominee and district party secretary, picked up a nomination form Thursday for the Brahmanbaria-5 (Nabinagar) seat ahead of the 13th parliamentary election.
A blaze early Tuesday at a Partex Star Group warehouse in Nasirnagar destroyed roughly 650,000 taka in goods, with electrical short-circuit suspected, officials said.
Border Guard Bangladesh treated about 300 people and gave out winter clothing Thursday in Kasba upazila under the Sultanpur Battalion (60 BGB).
India's Border Security Force detained Munna, 18, after he crossed about 300 yards into Indian territory at Akhaura early Wednesday, BGB said.
A cabinet purchase committee on Thursday approved a 1.64 billion taka increase in construction cost for the four-laning of the 11.56-km Ashuganj-Sarail land-port highway section.
Sagar Mia was wounded in a shooting in Brahmanbaria's Munsefpara area on Wednesday evening in what police said stemmed from a prior dispute.
Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan phoned Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus to say Sharif Osman Hadi, a July uprising figure, is critically ill in a Singapore hospital.
Police recovered the hanging body of NCP leader Jannat Ara Rumi, 30, from a women's hostel in Dhaka's Zigatola early Thursday and sent it for autopsy.
Daily Feni editor Mohammad Shahadat Hossain has been elected president of the Feni Reporters Unity for 2026, the local journalists' association said.
BNP leaders from Parshuram upazila paid tribute to Liberation War martyrs at the Bileonia memorial on Victory Day, as the local convener accused critics of opposing national days.
Police detained two Chinese nationals at Ramgarh upazila in Khagrachhari for entering the Chittagong Hill Tracts without official permission, the local officer in charge said.
Several Manikchhari farmers said they suffered losses after planting substandard potato seed bought from a local dealer, prompting an upazila agriculture department investigation.
Army personnel arrested an active member of the United People's Democratic Front (Prosit) faction in Khagrachhari's Maratila area with a pistol, ammunition and cash, security forces said.
A man was killed and three others injured when a truck carrying firewood overturned in the Borodam area of Dighinala upazila in Khagrachhari, police said.
A pickup van carrying betel leaf overturned on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Sitakunda, killing two traders and injuring another, police said.
A Chandpur farmer filed a police complaint accusing a neighbor of cutting down his pumpkin crop in a land dispute, destroying months of work just weeks before harvest.
Built in 1523-24, the Bagha Shahi Mosque in Rajshahi features 10 domes, terracotta motifs and intricate mihrab carvings, and is depicted on Bangladesh's 50-taka note and a commemorative 10-taka stamp.
A 27-year-old man died after falling from a coconut tree in Puthia upazila of Rajshahi, police said, citing locals who described it as a routine theft attempt.
Security forces arrested 67 people and recovered firearms, knives and narcotics during "Operation Fast Light," a joint sweep targeting criminal gangs operating on Padma River sandbars across four districts, police said Sunday.
Cold injury and other winter-related diseases are damaging betel leaf crops in the Mohanpur upazila of Rajshahi, turning leaves red and yellow before they wither and die, farmers and officials said.
A fire destroyed betel leaf farms covering 36 bighas in Bagmara upazila of Rajshahi in about half an hour Friday, leaving roughly 60 growers with losses of about 2 million taka, officials said.
A fisherman netted a 76-kilogram baghair catfish in the Padma River in Rajshahi's Godagari upazila late Friday, drawing hundreds of onlookers when it was put on sale at a local market.
An assistant returning officer in Jashore has issued a show-cause notice to a Bangladesh Nationalist Party parliamentary candidate after his supporters held a campaign rally in violation of election rules, officials said.
Karima Khatun, the daughter of a day laborer in Rajshahi's Durgapur upazila, has earned admission to Sher-e-Bangla Medical College in Barishal, drawing celebration in her village.
The newly posted police superintendent in Chuadanga held a meeting with local journalists to discuss the district's law and order, border crime, narcotics control and security around the upcoming parliamentary election.
A football tournament celebrating the opening of the Kurukpata Buddhist monastery in remote Alikadam upazila concluded with the Kurukpara Youth XI claiming the title, organizers said.
Army and civil administration officials fined illegal hill-cutters a total of 500,000 taka in a midnight raid in Alikadam upazila aimed at protecting hills from erosion, officials said.
Border Guard Bangladesh seized 9,850 yaba pills worth about 2.96 million taka during a patrol in a remote hill area of Naikhongchhari upazila along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, officials said.
At least 10 people were injured Saturday afternoon when a long-running dispute over access to farmland erupted into violence in Jashore's Choughachha upazila, police said.
About 95 percent of hotel rooms in Bandarban have been booked in advance for Dec. 16-25, hoteliers said Friday, signaling a strong rebound for the hill district's tourism sector.
The BNP has reinstated Marjina Akter Siddiqui, joint general secretary of the Cox's Bazar district Mohila Dal, after withdrawing her earlier expulsion from the party.
BNP standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed visited the home of Jamaat-e-Islami's candidate Abdullah Al Faruque in Cox's Bazar-1 to offer condolences on the death of Faruque's father.
The interim government plans to transform the Maheshkhali-Matarbari area in Cox's Bazar into a modern port-centered township modeled on Singapore and Shanghai, requiring an estimated $60 billion to $65 billion in investment.
Rohingya refugees made up more than 74 percent of dengue cases and over 90 percent of dengue deaths recorded in Cox's Bazar district from January through Nov. 24, the civil surgeon's office said.
The Cox's Bazar zilla parishad has accused Ahmed Ullah, a former Awami League upazila chief in Kutubdia, and his son of grabbing council-owned land worth crores of taka and building shops on it.
The family of Wasim Akram, killed in the July uprising in Chattogram, welcomed the tribunal's death sentence against Sheikh Hasina and called for the ruling to be carried out quickly.
The Bangladesh Navy seized two cement-laden trawlers and detained 22 people accused of smuggling cement to Myanmar through the Bay of Bengal near St. Martin's Island.
Two days of unseasonal rain in early November have damaged crops across thousands of bighas of farmland in five upazilas of Rajshahi, with losses estimated at about 10.27 crore taka, the local agriculture office…