Two under-trial prisoners have died in separate incidents at Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj. One of them died after suffering chest pain. The other was under treatment at the jail hospital after being ‘affected by dengue fever’. The bodies of the two under-trial prisoners have been kept at the morgue of Dhaka Medical College (DMCH) Hospital.
Muhammad Shafiqul Rahman, a former member of parliament for Chandpur-4 (Faridganj), former president of the National Press Club and a freedom fighter, has died at the age of 77.
A total of 1,065 people were infected with measles or showed measles symptoms across Bangladesh in the 24 hours up to Saturday morning. Eight people died with measles symptoms in this period, though no deaths from confirmed measles were reported.
The Election Commission (EC) has made significant progress in correcting National Identity Card (NID) information, settling 6,442,832 applications out of a total 6,570,842 received so far.
The UK High Court has barred the sale or transfer of a luxury London flat worth £15 million (Tk 2.4883 billion) linked to Anisuzzaman Chowdhury Rony, the brother of former Bangladesh land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury.
The Bangladesh Bank website remained inaccessible for a third consecutive day on Saturday following a global cybersecurity alert. The site has been taken offline as a precautionary measure to ensure its security. However, connections between the central bank and commercial banks, as well as financial operations, remain unaffected.