A young woman has staged a hunger strike at her husband's residence in Lohagara, Narail, holding a bottle of poison, demanding recognition as his wife. Upon receiving news, the accused man and his family members locked the house and fled.
A one-month-old baby girl was allegedly sold by her mother for Tk 20,000 in Boalkhali, Chattogram. The child was later rescued by police after an investigation prompted by a complaint from her grandmother.
A gas leak has been ongoing for nearly 45 days in a high-pressure Titas Gas transmission pipeline under the Arial Khan River in Kishoreganj, causing large quantities of gas to be wasted daily and leaving local residents in fear and at health risk due to the strong gas odour.
A court has sentenced Shariful Islam to death for killing his girlfriend Shahina Khatun by strangulation in the Jirabo area of Ashulia, Dhaka. The verdict was delivered nearly six years after the incident.
Police have recovered the dismembered body of a member of the Customs Security Force from a pond in Fulbaria upazila, Mymensingh, nine days after he went missing. The body was found stuffed into three travel bags and a sack and dumped in the pond, law enforcement officials said.
During an unannounced visit to Gobindaganj Upazila Health Complex in Gaibandha, Health Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossain learned from a patient that despite the hospital having stock, he had to buy an anti-rabies vaccine from outside for Tk 1,030. After verifying the complaint, the minister ordered the temporary suspension of two health workers.