ANM Ayas, member secretary of the State Dialogue Forum (SDF), went to Bhaluka Model Police Station in Mymensingh and lodged a verbal complaint alleging that leaders and activists of the banned Awami League and Chhatra League had attacked him.
Four buffaloes that were kept tied in the mud surrounding a homestead 24 hours a day for three consecutive months have finally been rescued in Maheshpur, Jhenaidah. Witnessing the miserable condition of the animals, local villagers often felt distressed. Although several people urged the owner, Abdul Alim, to move the buffaloes out of the mud, their requests went unheeded. Later, after the issue went viral on social media, Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Sajjad Hossain stepped forward to rescue the animals.
Mohammad Shahadat Nabi, a leader of the banned Awami League and an executive committee member of the Chattogram's Chandanaish Upazila Awami League, attended his father's funeral prayers (janaza) in handcuffs after being released from prison on parole. Police noted that he was previously the relief subcommittee secretary of the Awami League's central committee.
A mentally unstable youth was allegedly tied to an electric post, beaten, and had an acid-like substance sprayed on his hands in Kolaroa upazila of Satkhira. The severely injured victim, 38-year-old Golam Rasul Sheikh, was initially admitted to the Kolaroa Upazila Health Complex and later transferred to Satkhira Medical College Hospital as his condition deteriorated.
A Chattogram court has sentenced three people to death for the murder of driver Md. Sajib in the city's Toll Road area. Judge Md. Tajul Islam of the 5th Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court of Chattogram delivered the verdict on Monday (August 17).
At least 19 passengers were injured in a head-on collision between a passenger bus and a brick-laden truck in Boalmari, Faridpur. The bus overturned into a roadside ditch, while the truck crashed into a power pole, damaging three electricity poles and causing temporary power outages in the surrounding area.