Rival supporters of nominated former lawmaker Amjad Hossain and district BNP president Javed Masud Milton attacked each other's offices in Gangni, injuring at least 10 people and damaging a dozen motorcycles.
A husband and wife died Wednesday when their motorcycle collided head-on with a power tiller on the Jhikargachha-Monirampur road in Jashore's Monirampur upazila.
A 17-year-old motorcyclist named Sagor died after his bike struck a jackfruit tree on the Chaugachha-Jashore road on Thursday, October 23, police said.
Md. Kalam Khan, 48, was beaten to death in Morrelganj upazila of Bagerhat after being accused of theft by his cousins in a long-running land dispute, police said.
Unknown attackers cut down about 300 high-yield guava trees belonging to farmer Jalal Uddin in Chuadanga's Jibannagar in what police are investigating as the result of a feud.
Forest department rangers arrested seven men setting traps to hunt deer in the Sundarbans late Saturday and seized two trawlers and 100 snares, officials said.
Authorities fined three businesses 9,000 taka in Damurhuda upazila for failing to keep purchase vouchers, display price lists and for selling expired goods.
Attackers fired bullets and threw bombs at a BNP office near Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, killing a 55-year-old teacher and wounding three others.
A cocktail bomb exploded at the home of businessman Asadul Khondoker in Narail Sadar upazila one day after he filed a complaint over an extortion demand.
SATKHIRA — A mobile court sentenced a meat trader to two months in prison and fined him 30,000 taka on Sunday for supplying rotten meat to several restaurants in Satkhira city, including the Kacchi…
SATKHIRA — A 52-year-old farmer in Shyamnagar upazila was electrocuted by an electric trap he had set in his vegetable plot to ward off rats, neighbors and a local official said.
CHOUHALI, Sirajganj — Police arrested a 35-year-old man with 80 yaba pills in the Kodalia Bazar area of Chouhali upazila late Sunday, the officer-in-charge said.
DAULATPUR, Kushtia — At least a dozen armed gangs have long operated on the remote Padma River chars of Daulatpur upazila and the area bordering India, residents and police say, after recent clashes over…
A man in Satkhira's Ashashuni claimed ownership of a British-era post office and padlocked it before officials reopened the building following protests.
Police recovered the body of a 52-year-old woman from under a railway bridge in Kushtia's Kumarkhali on Saturday. Investigators suspect she was raped and killed.
Residents of Shalikha, Magura, accused a meat seller of secretly slaughtering a horse and selling its meat as beef. The seller fled before police arrived.
A committee investigating the death of Rajshahi University sociology student Sayma Hossain submitted its initial report Thursday with several recommendations for immediate action.
A housewife identified as Achiya Begum was killed when unidentified assailants slit her throat in Khulna's Phultala upazila. Police have detained a young man for questioning.
Police arrested Ramjan Kazi, 60, in Jashore on a charge of raping his 9-year-old granddaughter, allegedly after luring her with the promise of buying a toy. The child has been admitted to Jashore General…
Border Guard Bangladesh detained Ataur Rahman, 37, and recovered a pistol during a raid on a paddy storehouse in the Benapole border area, officials said.
A 70-year-old man was killed by his grandson-in-law in Jashore's Jhikargachha upazila in what locals say stemmed from a family dispute. Four others were injured.
JASHORE — Police arrested four men and seized illegal weapons, walkie-talkies, knives, a toy pistol and five motorcycles during a raid in Jhikargachha, Jashore district.
JASHORE — Border Guard Bangladesh detained a man and seized a 173.76-gram gold bar worth about 2.69 million taka at Chanpara Bazar in Jashore Sadar upazila.
CUMILLA — A Bangladesh Nationalist Party union president from Chougachha in Jashore was killed in a motorcycle crash on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway, party officials said.
NILPHAMARI — Three families have been living under the open sky for three weeks in Nilphamari after a court eviction order was wrongly carried out, family lawyers said.
Two ninth-grade students were killed and two others injured in a three-way collision Friday on the Chougachha-Kotchandpur road in Bangladesh's Jashore district, police said.
An unlicensed ice cream factory in Jashore's Chougachha was fined 100,000 taka Thursday for using counterfeit brand logos and producing food in unsanitary conditions, the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection said.
A man in Jashore was jailed Tuesday after authorities discovered he had been impersonating his uncle at court hearings in an extortion case, prison officials said, in a scheme reminiscent of the 2016 Bangladeshi…
A mobile court in Jashore's Chougachha fined a man 20,000 taka Wednesday for practicing medicine without registration from the Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council, officials said.
A mobile court in Kaliganj fined two butchers a total of 3,000 taka for selling beef and goat meat in unsanitary conditions and buried a rotten meat consignment from a third trader, officials said.
The wife of a man critically injured by a Border Guard Bangladesh vehicle in Chougachha has filed a case against the driver in Jashore court, officials said.
Police in Chuadanga have exhumed four of the six bodies of people who died after drinking toxic liquor, acting on a court order because the bodies had been buried without autopsy, officials said.
A joint operation by RAB and police in Kushtia leads to the arrest of a 26-year-old woman with 120 packets of heroin and more than 1 lakh taka in cash.
Three people, including a woman, are killed and 12 others injured when a passenger bus collides with a truck on the Dhaka-Tangail highway in Basail upazila.
SHARIATPUR — Police arrested two leaders of a regional truckers' union on charges of stopping trucks and extorting money on the Shariatpur-Madaripur regional road, officials said.
Police in Rajshahi's Godagari have arrested a 20-year-old man carrying 294.13 grams of gold — worth about Tk 54.81 lakh — that they say was being prepared for smuggling into India.
BOGURA — A crude bomb exploded Monday afternoon near a venue where Sarjis Alam, chief organizer for the northern region of the National Citizen Party, was holding a coordination meeting, police and party leaders…
SHERPUR — A court on Monday canceled the bail of Chandan Kumar Pal, senior vice-president of the Sherpur district Awami League and a former public prosecutor, and issued an arrest warrant against him in…
DHAKA — A Dhaka court has ordered that the 1996 death of film star Salman Shah be reclassified as a murder case, nearly 29 years after he died, the family's lawyer said.
A Dhaka court has ordered that the 1996 death of film star Salman Shah be registered as a murder case, 29 years on, granting his mother's revision petition against the earlier 'unnatural death' ruling.
DHAKA — Police have detained a young woman in connection with the killing of Jubayed Ahmed, a Jagannath University student and Chhatra Dal leader who was found stabbed to death in old Dhaka, officials…
DHAKA — The body of a Jagannath University statistics student and Chhatra Dal leader was recovered from an alley in old Dhaka's Armanitola on Sunday evening, police said.