A court has sentenced Md. Abdul Majid, former manager of Rupali Bank's Ramgati Bazar branch in Lakshmipur, to 25 years of rigorous imprisonment in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) over embezzlement and acquisition of wealth beyond known sources of income. The court also ordered the confiscation of his illegally acquired assets worth Tk 1,24,15,543 in favor of the state.
Three children, including a brother and sister, drowned in a pond in Kahaloo upazila of Bogura. The tragic incident occurred around 12pm at Bhalta Adarsha Guchhagram in the upazila on Tuesday (July 21).
After remaining closed for several days due to continuous heavy rainfall, flooding, and the risk of landslides, the popular tourist spot Debotakhum in Rowangchhari upazila of Bandarban has reopened to tourists starting today (July 21). The upazila administration stated that conditional entry is being allowed following an improvement in the overall situation. Previously, tourist access had been suspended from July 16 to July 20 in the interest of safety.
Three people, including two women, were killed and two others injured when a truck hit a battery-operated auto-rickshaw in Mymensingh. The accident occurred around 11:30am on Tuesday on the Mymensingh-Kishoreganj road in front of a truck depot near the Shambhuganj Rural Electricity Office.
A video featuring Gazee Nazrul Islam, Member of Parliament for the Satkhira-4 (Shyamnagar-Kaliganj) constituency and a leader of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, has gone viral on social media. Fact-checking organisation Rumor Scanner has stated that no evidence of artificial intelligence (AI) technology was found in the video.
Police have arrested four people, including the director of a madrasa in the Banagram area of AtaiKula Police Station in Pabna's Santhia upazila, on charges of drug use. In the same drive, four others were arrested with drugs from various locations in the area. Later, all eight were sentenced to varying terms of imprisonment without labour by a mobile court.