CHOUGACHHA — India's Border Security Force pushed nine Bangladeshis, including women and children, across the Mashila border in Jashore's Chougachha upazila on Sunday afternoon following a flag meeting with Border Guard Bangladesh, officials said.
RAJBARI — Law enforcement officers arrested nine fishermen for catching mother hilsa in the Padma River in Goalanda upazila of Rajbari in defiance of a government fishing ban, police said.
FARIDPUR — An illegal hilsa market is operating twice a day on a char in the Padma River in Sadarpur upazila of Faridpur, even as a 22-day government ban on catching mother hilsa remains…
Two people, including a 55-year-old woman, were killed in two separate train accidents in the Joragonj and Bareyarhat areas of Mirsharai in Chattogram.
Authorities formed a six-member committee to investigate a major fire at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport cargo village in Dhaka that destroyed millions of taka in imported goods, with sabotage suspected.
A court in Dinajpur sent six Awami League leaders to jail Sunday in a case over the 2014 election-day killings of two Chhatra Shibir activists, Salauddin and Asadul Islam.
Authorities temporarily halted flights at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Saturday after a fire broke out in the cargo village, civil aviation officials said.
Police filed a case against six Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders and activists accused of illegally extracting sand from a sea beach on Nijhum Dwip in Hatiya, Noakhali.
A major fire broke out Saturday in the cargo area of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, prompting a response from army and navy personnel and 28 fire service units.
DHAKA — Ordinary Bangladeshis are losing their savings to a wave of investment scams across banks, the stock market, insurance and unregistered online platforms, while most perpetrators remain at large, analysts say.
BRAHMANBARIA — At least 30 people were injured in a clash between two villages in Sarail upazila on Friday night, sparked by an earlier altercation over bathing in a pond, residents said.
Police on Friday baton-charged and removed families of July martyrs and wounded protesters who had gathered at the July Charter 2025 signing ceremony at the South Plaza of Parliament, after demonstrators breached security and…
Border Guard Bangladesh detained 24 people, including two suspected traffickers, on the Sherpur border early Oct. 7 as they were being smuggled into India, seizing 14 mobile phones and 54,000 taka in cash.
A medical exam found no evidence of rape in the case of a Marma teen in Khagrachhari, where allegations of sexual assault have triggered protests and violence that killed three people, police said.
Joint forces arrested a Chhatra League leader and four others in connection with an attack on police and vandalism of a police vehicle in Rajbari’s Goalanda, the additional police superintendent said.
Associates of a drug suspect detained by police snatched him away after attacking officers in Jashore’s Rajarhat area, injuring a CID constable, police said.
Investigators from the International Crimes Tribunal visited Chougachha in Jashore to probe the 2016 shooting that left two Islami Chhatra Shibir leaders, Israfil and Ruhul Amin, with leg wounds inflicted by police, officials said.
DHAKA — Shafiqul Islam Apu, the Awami League's Jhenaidah district president and a former member of Parliament, was arrested late Sunday at his Dhanmondi home in the capital, police said.
CHUADANGA — Border guards in Chuadanga seized 21 gold bars weighing 2.449 kg and valued at Tk 3.6 crore (about $300,000) and detained a smuggler near the Darshana frontier, officials said Thursday.
NARAIL — BNP leaders and activists held a protest rally and news conference in Kalia after an Awami League-affiliated woman filed an extortion case against senior local BNP figures, which the party calls a…
DHAKA — Detectives arrested Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah, the former vice chancellor of Begum Rokeya University, in the capital’s Mohammadpur area on Thursday on the request of the Anti-Corruption Commission.
A Dhaka court has ordered the arrest of former information minister Hasanul Haq Inu, former minister Rashed Khan Menon and former ICT state minister Junaid Ahmed Palak in a case over the killing of…
DHAKA — Milestone School and College in Uttara will reopen Sunday, 12 days after a fighter jet crashed into one of its buildings, killing students and teachers.
MEHERPUR — Bangladesh Air Force members visited the family of Mahia Tasnim, an eighth grader killed in the Milestone School plane crash, at her grandfather's village in Mujibnagar, relatives said.
KOLKATA — Bangladeshi model and actress Shanta Pal was arrested in Kolkata after Indian voter and Aadhaar cards were found in her possession, police said.
CHUADANGA — Soldiers and police detained a 35-year-old man in Damurhuda with a foreign-made pistol, two magazines and 15 rounds of ammunition, officials said.
India's Border Security Force formally handed over 15 Bangladeshi nationals to the BGB at the Darshana border in Chuadanga on Wednesday after a flag meeting.
Sources say that, having failed at other attempts to undermine the interim government, the Awami League is now plotting to seize the capital, with thousands of activists undergoing guerrilla training at home and abroad.
Border Guard Bangladesh personnel in Chuadanga seized smuggled goods worth more than 5.5 million taka and arrested two suspects in a week-long anti-narcotics and anti-smuggling operation.
A 20-year-old man was beaten to death by his parents in Barishal's Bakerganj upazila after he assaulted them over money for drugs, and the couple later surrendered at the local police station.
A Dhaka court placed former chief justice A.B.M. Khairul Haque on a seven-day remand in a verdict-forgery case, with no defense lawyer appearing at the hearing.
A 25-year-old man riding on a hay-laden trolley was killed when a pickup truck struck the trolley from behind at the Tengurpur intersection in Jashore's Chougacha upazila.
CHUADANGA - India’s Border Security Force is accused of crossing into Bangladeshi territory at the Hudapara border in Damurhuda upazila and beating and torturing Ali Akbar, 54, with rifle bayonets.
JIBANNAGAR - Border Guard Bangladesh recovered an abandoned foreign pistol, a magazine and three rounds of ammunition near the border in Chuadanga’s Jibannagar.
Border Guard Bangladesh seized and destroyed 100 illegal Chinese-style fishing nets valued at 15 lakh taka during a special task force operation in Chuadanga's Damurhuda upazila on Thursday.
A mobile court collected 33,000 taka in fines and seized 300 kg of polythene and five hydraulic horns during an environment department raid in Chougachha on Monday.
The Anti-Corruption Commission filed separate cases Tuesday against former lawmaker Syeda Rubina Akter Meera and her husband over alleged illegal wealth and money laundering totaling hundreds of crore taka.