Malaysian authorities arrested 468 foreigners, including 174 Bangladeshis, in a three-hour immigration sweep through the Cameron Highlands on Thursday, the country's Bernama news agency reported.
Border Guard Bangladesh detained 13 Bangladeshis, including six women and four children, while they were trying to cross illegally into India through the Mahespur border in Jhenaidah, an official said Saturday.
Kanthalia police arrested Hasan Jamadder, who had been sentenced to 14 years for women and child abuse, from Dhaka after he had been on the run for years, an officer said.
Police recovered four suspected bombs in Terkhada upazila and three blasts went off in front of a union council member's home on the same day, leaving residents alarmed.
At least 12 people were injured when Detective Branch police clashed with suspected drug dealers during a raid in Bhiralla village in Cumilla's Debidwar upazila on Nov. 18.
A young man named Tasim was killed and four others injured when two motorcycles collided head-on in Meherpur's Gangni upazila on Friday evening, police said.
Thieves broke a window at the Kaliganj upazila land office in Jhenaidah and stole 300,000 taka in cash from a desk drawer overnight Wednesday, officials said.
Police recovered the body of an unidentified man, about 34, near the Ramchandrapur bridge on the Majhkandi-Boalmari-Bhatiapara regional highway in Faridpur's Boalmari upazila on Saturday afternoon.
Dhaka and other parts of Bangladesh felt a second earthquake on Saturday evening, a day after a stronger 5.7-magnitude quake killed at least 10 people across the country.
Four people, all from the same family, were killed and four others injured when a minibus collided with an easy bike on the Dinajpur-Dashmile highway on Saturday afternoon.
Border Guard Bangladesh detained 10 people, including women and children, while they were attempting to cross from India into Bangladesh through the Indrapur village fields in Jashore's Chougachha upazila.
India's Border Security Force handed over a Bangladeshi national to the Border Guard Bangladesh through a flag meeting at the Darshana border in Chuadanga on Friday afternoon.
Two brothers, Nuru Khan, 60, and Fazlu Khan, 55, were electrocuted in Hossainpur upazila of Kishoreganj on Saturday morning when the younger brother tried to save the elder from a fallen power line.
Indian coast-guard personnel detained a fishing trawler from Kutubdia in Cox's Bazar with 28 fishermen on board after the vessel drifted into Indian waters in heavy fog, the owner and families said.
The U.S. Embassy in Dhaka expressed deep condolences Friday to those affected by the powerful earthquake that struck the capital and other parts of Bangladesh, killing at least seven people.
At least four people were killed and more than 100 injured in Narsingdi district when a powerful earthquake struck Bangladesh on Friday, the district administration said.
Border Guard Bangladesh seized about 5.5 crore taka worth of Indian goods being smuggled in five sand- and stone-laden trucks in Habiganj, officials said Friday.
About 100 garment workers fell ill from panic during Friday's earthquake at a factory in Magura's Sreepur upazila, with dozens hospitalized, officials said.
A pickup truck struck and killed a 65-year-old man in Jhenaidah Sadar on Friday morning as he was walking to a local mosque for dawn prayers, police said.
At least 10 Dhaka University students were injured Friday morning when panic spread through residence halls during an earthquake, with some leaping from buildings and others trampled in stampedes.
A fifth-year student at Sir Salimullah Medical College died Friday morning when a building's railing collapsed on him in Old Dhaka during an earthquake that shook the capital.
Six people were killed and more than 200 injured in an earthquake that struck Bangladesh on Friday morning, with deaths reported in Dhaka, Narayanganj and Narsingdi, the Health Directorate said.
Friday's 5.7-magnitude earthquake released energy equivalent to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs and was the largest to hit Bangladesh in 30 years, an Earthquake Research Center official said.
More than 200 workers were injured in a stampede at Fashion Pulse Limited garment factory in Tongi's BSCIC area when an earthquake struck Friday morning, prompting workers to rush from the nine-story building.
Police recovered the body of a small trader found hanging from a mango tree in Yashore's Chougachha upazila on Thursday afternoon. Relatives suspect suicide after the man struggled with illness and family debt.
Schoolteacher Sadhan Kumar Majumder, 55, was killed when a rice-laden truck struck the van he was riding home in on Wednesday afternoon in Chougachha. Police have seized the truck; the driver fled.
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The Chougachha upazila law and order committee held its monthly meeting on Thursday, discussing rising thefts, traffic congestion, riverbank erosion and cross-border drug smuggling.
Schoolteacher Sadhan Kumar Majumder, 55, died after a rice-laden truck struck his van Wednesday afternoon on the Chougachha-Jhikargachha road. The truck driver fled and police have impounded the vehicle.
Thirteen people were injured in two separate clashes between BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami activists over the placement of billboards and electoral symbols in Chuadanga on Tuesday. Police said extra forces had been deployed.
A woman identified as Jahida Begum, 55, was killed when she was struck by the Khulna-bound Sundarban Express train near Barobazar railway station in Jhenaidah's Kaliganj upazila, police said.
A woman identified as Biuti Khatun, 45, died after falling from her husband's motorcycle in the Chitla Ruitanpur area of Chuadanga's Damurhuda upazila on Tuesday morning, police said.
Bank accounts of Moazzem Hossain, former personal aide to sports adviser Asif Mahmood, show unusual transactions, but the anti-graft probe has stalled, the Anti-Corruption Commission said.
Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus said the court ruling against ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her associates shows that no one, regardless of position, is above the law.
Dhaka University deputy registrar Muhammad Lablu Molla was handed to Shahbagh police late Monday after posting on Facebook about Sheikh Hasina's death sentence.
Diamond World managing director Dilip Kumar Agarwala has been charged by CID's Financial Crime Unit with smuggling gold and diamonds abroad and laundering 678 crore taka (about $55 million).
Thieves broke the shutters of three shops at a market in Chougachha, Jashore, on Thursday night, making off with 278,500 taka in cash and other goods, police said.
A young man broke into the rented home of a Rajshahi judge and stabbed to death the judge's 18-year-old son, also seriously wounding the judge's wife, before being detained by police on Thursday.
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 will announce Thursday when it will hand down its verdict against ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and two others in a crimes-against-humanity case tied to the July uprising.
Five workers were burned when a chemical overflowed while being poured at an automated rice mill in Magura's Alokdia area on Saturday, hospital officials said.
Five cattle belonging to farmer Kohinoor Mallick burned to death in a mysterious overnight fire at his cattle shed in Choughachha, Jashore, with five other animals in critical condition.
Tanzin Ahmed Abid, 30, a Chhatra Dal worker, was killed in clashes between two BNP factions over a nomination dispute in Mymensingh's Gauripur on Sunday evening.
Four girls from one family, three of them sisters, drowned in a pond in Meherpur's Sadar upazila on Sunday afternoon while picking lotus flowers, officials said.
A pedestrian was killed Sunday morning when a Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation bus hit him on the Meherpur-Chuadanga highway in front of the BRAC office in Meherpur town.
A Dhaka court has barred former Rapid Action Battalion Director-General Md. Harun-or-Rashid, his wife and two daughters from traveling abroad while the Anti-Corruption Commission investigates allegations of illegally acquiring and laundering 1,000 crore taka.
A man was arrested in Kushtia's Khoksa upazila after he killed a dolphin from the Padma River and posted videos of the act on Facebook and TikTok, police said.
Five leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its affiliated groups were wounded in a shooting in Raozan upazila of Chattogram, with one in critical condition, police said.
Jamaat-e-Islami expressed deep concern and condemnation over a shooting attack on BNP candidate Ershad Ullah during a campaign event in Chattogram that killed one person and wounded several.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate Ershad Ullah was shot at point-blank range during a campaign event in Chattogram, with a video showing a gunman opening fire from two arm-lengths away.