Bangladesh

Microbus catches fire on Dhaka Elevated Expressway

Shawdesh Desk: A microbus caught fire on Dhaka Elevated Expressway in front of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday. Rozina Akhtar, duty officer of Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarters

More than 50 houses burnt in Gazipur fire

Shawdesh Desk; Several markets and more than 50 tin-roof houses were burnt in a fire in Bhogra bypass area in Gazipur city on early Thursday. The fire started at a

Six injured in attack over establishing election office in Jashore

Shawdesh Desk: Six people, including a former upazila parishad chairman, were injured in an attack by supporters of the current upazila chairman over the establishment of an election office for

Father, son arrested for killing schoolgirl after rape in Barishal

Shawdesh Desk: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Tuesday arrested a father and his son reportedly for killing a 9-year-old schoolgirl after rape at Babuganj upazila in Barishal district in May 3. The arrested are Sultan Hawlader,

Husband gets death penalty for killing wife in Khulna

Shawdesh desk: A court in Khulna on Wednesday sentenced a man to death for killing his wife at Belayet Hossain road in the city in 2011. Abdus Salam Khan, the judge of Women and Children Repression

UPDF’s blockade underway in Rangamati

Shawdesh desk: A half-day road and waterway blockade is underway in Rangamati district called by United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) to protest against the ‘repeal of Chattogram Hill Tracts Regulation

Two ARSA men held with arms, ammo in Cox’s Bazar

Shawdesh Desk: The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained two commanders of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) and seized local and foreign arms, including grenades and rocket cells, from the

‘ARSA den’ busted in Cox’s Bazar, 2 ‘Rohingya criminals’ arrested

Shawdesh Desk: Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) busted a ‘den of Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA)’ near Ukhiya Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar district and arrested two suspected