A dinghy boat capsized in the Padma River in Narayanpur union of Chapainawabganj Sadar upazila, leaving 10 people missing. They were later rescued by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF). The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) is in contact with the BSF to bring the rescued people back to the country.
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Md Asaduzzaman has said that some people are trying to create controversy over a law. That is the property transfer law. "We have brought amendments to this law. The amendment has been brought especially to ensure the security of the elderly and mothers," he said.
Allegation has been raised of beating two madrasa students and then branding them with a hot iron in Pashchim Jhajhar area of Gacha police station of Gazipur city. After the fathers of the two students filed separate cases at Gacha police station, police have arrested three teachers of the madrasa.
Two female dancers, one of them a minor, have been gang-raped after being called to perform at a wedding in Sarail, Brahmanbaria. Sarail Police Station police have arrested one young man in the case filed over the incident.
When the monsoon sky wipes away the bluish melancholy of clouds and turns into watercolour, Chalan Beel also changes its familiar form. A vast expanse of water stretching to the horizon, boats floating in the distance, the splash of oars, the bustle of fishermen and the fragrance of water lilies and lotus—together they make it seem not like a beel but a vast water portrait painted by nature's own hands.
Police have recovered a pistol, two magazines and 20 rounds of bullets, looted from a police station during the July uprising, from a shelf on the second floor of a mosque in Araihazar, Narayanganj.