Suspended HSC and equivalent examinations in five districts of the Chattogram division will resume today, Thursday, after being halted for more than a month due to flooding and adverse weather.
Coast Guard recovered two foreign firearms, magazines and 233 rounds of ammunition during an operation on the Naf river in Teknaf of Cox's Bazar. A wooden boat was seized in the operation conducted from night to morning but no one involved in the arms smuggling could be arrested on Wednesday (August 19).
A woman in her forties in Senbag upazila of Noakhali was tied to a tree and tortured after being accused of chicken theft. The woman filed a case against four people at Senbag police station. Police later conducted a raid and arrested one of the accused.
Union Parishad (UP) Chairman Md Farid Uddin has publicly beaten a woman with a shoe during a village arbitration in Brahmanpara upazila of Cumilla. The incident took place in a village of the upazila. An 11-second video of the incident has spread on social media on Monday afternoon.
Following the filing of cases over attacks, vandalism and the humiliation of government officials at the offices of the Upazila Nirbahi Officers (UNO) of Lalpur and Bagatipara, Natore Deputy Commissioner (DC) Asma Shaheen has been withdrawn and Lalpur UNO Md Barkat Ullah has been transferred.
A young man named Manjurul Islam, 22, has been killed in a shooting by miscreants in Khulna. The incident took place around 6pm in the Ashibigha area under Labanchara police station in the city on Wednesday. Police initially suspect the killing may have stemmed from a dispute over a football match.