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Police have arrested Monir Hossain, son of the president of a BNP ward unit, in connection with a fire at a BNP ward office in Sirajdikhan, Munshiganj. He was sent to court on Wednesday afternoon. Locals said the BNP office in the Chandherchar Leku Market area of Ward No. 2 under Baluchar Union was set on fire on the night of July 17. Furniture and other important items at the office were damaged in the incident. The incident caused a stir in the area. Five days after the incident, on Jul...

Senior bureaucrats in the Ministry of Public Administration allegedly played a ‘special role’ in the 2018 national election to help keep the Awami League government in power. They were also allegedly involved in activities opposing the July 2024 mass uprising. Among them were district commissioners and returning officers in all 64 districts. The Ministry of Public Administration has finalized a list of 36 such ‘controversial’ officials, including 30 former deputy commissioners. As they have comp...

An excavator was used to partially demolish the house of Mizanur Rahman Lavlu Kazi, president of the Madhabkhali Union Awami League and chairman of the union parishad, in Mirzaganj of Patuakhali. Miscreants later looted belongings from the house before setting it on fire. The incident took place around 12:30 am Friday beside Kathaltali Bazar in Mirzaganj upazila of Patuakhali. The owner of the house, Mizanur Rahman Lavlu Kazi, is the president of the Madhabkhali Union Awami League in the...

The Bangladesh Coast Guard has recovered a large cache of weapons, ammunition and firearm-making equipment during an operation in the remote hills of Hwanak in Maheshkhali upazila of Cox’s Bazar. During the operation, Imam Hossain Mintu (38), the alleged chief of the so-called ‘Mintu Bahini,’ was arrested. According to the Coast Guard, Mintu had long been creating panic in the area by manufacturing and supplying illegal weapons, engaging in piracy, robbery and carrying out various terrori...