Police have recovered a partially decomposed body of a man from a room of a residential hotel on Anderson Road in Cox's Bazar town. The body was recovered after breaking open the door of room number 408 of Hotel Nishita on Wednesday afternoon, April 29.
A man was brutally beaten, tied up, and his wife was raped at the Sardaha railway station in Charghat upazila, Rajshahi. The incident took place around 1:00 am on Tuesday, April 28.
At least five thousand hectares of ripe Boro paddy have been submerged in four upazilas of Habiganj due to continuous rainfall and upstream rushing water. Farmers who managed to harvest their crops are now unable to dry them in the absence of sunlight, leaving the grain at risk of rotting in the sheaves.
A video of a snap procession by Jubo League, the youth organisation of the banned Awami League, has surfaced on social media. The march took place on Kailati road in Netrokona Sadar upazila on Tuesday night, local residents said .
Today is April 29, a day of mourning for the people of Bangladesh's coastal belt. On this day in 1991, a devastating cyclone and tidal surge ravaged the country's coastal areas. More than three decades have passed, but the painful memories still haunt coastal residents. Meanwhile, the old fear remains—the coast is still not fully safe.
Five people, including two children, were injured by a lightning strike in the Rohingya camp in Ukhia, Cox's Bazar.