A leopard cat was beaten to death by locals in Sunamganj's Jagannathpur municipality area, even as a forest department official was present at the scene. The incident occurred on Saturday (July 25) afternoon at the residence of the late Abdul Ahad Chowdhury in the Shilimpur area.
A group of fishermen from Maheshkhali upazila in Cox's Bazar have rescued two Sri Lankan fishermen who were found floating adrift in the Bay of Bengal. The rescuers claimed the two had survived for 36 days at sea by eating only raw fish.
A Nasimon driver and his helper were killed in a collision with a passenger bus in Srinagar, Munshiganj. The accident occurred around midday on Saturday (July 25) at the Laskarpur Chekpara New Road intersection on the Hasara-Baoraikhali road in the upazila.
A youth was abducted from a market and subjected to medieval-style torture overnight in Gazipur's Sreepur, with allegations raised against a leader of the Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal and his associates. The victim's family alleged that at least 100 burn marks from a hot iron rod were inflicted on his body after they refused to pay the demanded extortion. The seriously injured youth is currently hospitalised under police custody.
Just hours after burying his freedom fighter father, Tujam Uddin received the news of his 20-year-old daughter's death over the phone while returning home from the graveyard in Daulatpur, Kushtia. The family has been devastated by the loss of both father and daughter within a span of only six hours. The heartbreaking incident has cast a pall of gloom over the Eastpara village in the upazila.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairman and Prime Minister Tarique Rahman held a meeting with leaders from various districts and metropolitan areas of the party's Rangpur division.