The abduction case linked to the disappearance and killing of former Jhenaidah lawmaker Anwarul Islam Anar has not been converted into a murder case after two years, the report said. Anar’s daughter, Mumtarin Ferdous Dorin, filed the abduction case at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police station in Dhaka. The report said Anar was killed in Kolkata, India, on May 13, 2024.

According to the report, six arrested suspects gave confessional statements, but the case classification was not changed and a DNA report was not collected. Detective police detained several people, including Shimul Bhuiyan, Tanvir Bhuiyan, Shilasti Rahman, Saidul Karim Mintu and Kazi Kamal Ahmed. Faisal and Mostafiz were detained in Khagrachhari, while Jihad and Siam were arrested in India and Nepal and remain in custody.

Anar travelled to India for treatment on May 12 and stayed at a friend’s home in Baranagar, Kolkata, before going missing. Reports of his killing emerged on May 22 from a residential building in New Town, though no body was found there. The article cited Indian media and West Bengal CID statements saying DNA from recovered human flesh matched Dorin. Jhenaidah court public prosecutor Mashiur Rahman said police must eventually submit an investigation report to court.

Pakistan’s military said seven India-backed militants were killed in an intelligence-based security operation in Hangu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Friday. The Inter-Services Public Relations agency, or ISPR, identified them as Fitna al-Khawarij militants. A 27-year-old army officer, Captain Hamza Akram of Narowal district in Punjab, was killed during the exchange of fire.

According to the ISPR statement, security forces launched the operation after receiving information about the militants’ presence in the area. The military said troops effectively engaged the militants, who at one stage took shelter inside a mosque. Seven militants were killed in firing between the two sides, the statement said.

The ISPR said weapons and ammunition were recovered from those killed. It alleged that they had been actively involved in numerous militant activities against security forces and law-enforcement agencies, as well as killings of innocent civilians. A sanitisation operation is continuing in the area to eliminate India-backed militants, according to the military’s statement.

At least 18 people were killed and nearly 50 injured in three separate road crashes on Friday on highways in Sylhet and Bogura, Bangladesh. Nine people died when two buses collided head-on in Osmaninagar on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway. In Bogura Sadar, a bus ran over day labourers at Erulia Bazar, killing seven, while a private car struck a motorcycle near Erulia Airport, killing a married couple.

The Osmaninagar crash occurred around 7:15am between a Unique Paribahan bus travelling from Sylhet to Dhaka and a Bengal sleeper coach travelling in the opposite direction. All those killed were passengers of the Unique bus, as were most of the injured. Police, highway police and fire service personnel jointly conducted rescue work, sent at least 30 people to hospitals and seized both damaged buses. Several injured people were reported in critical condition.

In Erulia, the Shah Fateh Ali Paribahan coach reportedly lost control and ran into labourers, injuring 17 others. Residents blocked the highway for four hours, alleging recurring crashes because there was no speed breaker. Traffic resumed after officials promised to build one. The district administration provided 25,000 taka for each person killed and 15,000 taka for injured families. The private car was seized, while its driver fled and police said legal action was under way.

Three people were injured after guests clashed over allegedly small meat portions during a wedding feast in Raipur upazila of Lakshmipur. The incident occurred on Friday at the Montri Patwari house in Kerowa union, according to the report.

The injured were identified as Belal Hossain, 40, Shahinur, 40, and Yasin, 22. Local residents rescued them and took them to Raipur উপজেলা Health Complex, where they received primary treatment.

Witnesses said an argument began among several guests while food was being served, centered on claims that too little meat had been provided. The dispute later escalated into a physical altercation and clash. Raipur police station Officer-in-Charge Nizamuddin Bhuiyan said no written complaint had yet been received. He said police would investigate and take legal action if a complaint is filed.

Police arrested five people after raiding a residential building beside Rabeya Hospital in Chowmuhani municipality, Begumganj, Noakhali, over allegations of producing pornography videos. The overnight operation on Thursday rescued four young women who police said had been brought from different districts with promises of jobs and then confined. The suspects were sent to jail through a court on Friday afternoon.

Those arrested were Md Salahuddin Biplob, his wife Parvin Akter, their sons Fahad Hasan and Arafat Yasin Fahim, and Abdur Rahim. Police said they were from Homna upazila in Cumilla and had lived in rented accommodation in Noakhali for a long time. The raid followed a covert call for help to the national emergency service 999 by one of the rescued women.

Police seized a video-recording camera, six mobile phones, a whip, a knife, scissors and Tk198,000 in cash from the site. One rescued woman filed a case against six people, alleging she was offered a parlour job, confined, forced into sexual acts and filmed. Police said two cases, involving human trafficking and pornography, were filed, and the rescued women remain in police custody.

The body of farmer Saiful Islam, 55, was recovered from the Brahmaputra River three days after he went missing in Mymensingh. Relatives found his body on Friday trapped in a dredging machine pipe, about 30 kilometres downstream. He was the son of the late Idris Ali from Moricharchar Tanmalamari village in Ishwarganj upazila.

Local sources said Saiful entered the Brahmaputra near the Bottola Balurghat area on Wednesday afternoon and was swept away by the current. A diving team from Mymensingh Fire Service reached the site that afternoon and began a search. The team searched for about two hours before suspending operations at nightfall.

Divers resumed the search on Thursday from 8am until 3pm, checking different areas of the river for more than seven hours. With no trace of Saiful found, the operation was declared over that afternoon after discussions with the upazila administration and family members. Ishwarganj Fire Service station officer Ram Prasad Pal said the strong current had carried the body a long distance downstream.

Border Guard Bangladesh detained eight Bangladeshi women while they were allegedly attempting to cross illegally into India through the Benipur border in Maheshpur upazila of Jhenaidah. The force disclosed the detention in a press release sent to media on Friday night, August 8, 2026.

According to BGB, a patrol team from Benipur BOP under Maheshpur 58 BGB conducted an operation in the border area at about 6:30 pm. The eight women were detained during their alleged attempt to cross the India border illegally.

BGB said the detained women are residents of several districts, including Gopalganj and Madaripur. They have been handed over to Maheshpur police station for necessary legal action, the force said.

The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) recovered 100 bottles of Phensidyl from a schoolbag on a Sohag Express passenger bus travelling from Satkhira to Dhaka and arrested passenger Jahidul Islam. The operation took place at 7:20pm on Friday near the Mayor Hanif Flyover in the Jatrabari police station area of the capital. DNC personnel also seized Tk60,000 in cash and a mobile phone from him.

According to the DNC, a Kotwali Circle team led by Assistant Director Md Nazrul Islam of the Dhaka Metro South office searched the bus after receiving confidential information. Officers searched a schoolbag carried by Jahidul Islam, who was seated in seat D-9, and found the bottles. The haul included 74 bottles of ESKUF brand Phensidyl and 26 bottles of FAIRDYL brand Phensidyl, totalling 10 litres.

The DNC estimated the value of the recovered drugs and other evidence at about Tk300,000. It said the Phensidyl was believed to have been transported to Dhaka by bus. Investigators are examining where the shipment was collected and who was expected to receive it in Dhaka. Legal action under the Narcotics Control Act, 2018, is being processed, while efforts continue to identify others linked to the case.

A Jubo Dal leader, Abdul Mannan, 45, was allegedly detained naked at a woman’s home and beaten by an agitated crowd in Harinagar village of Munshiganj union, Shyamnagar, Satkhira. The incident occurred at about 10:30pm on Thursday, according to local sources. Multiple videos of the incident were circulated on social media and became viral.

Local residents, Munshiganj union BNP leaders and witnesses said people surrounded the woman’s home, broke open a locked room and detained Mannan. They said an angry crowd then beat him before party leaders and activists arrived and took him away. Local sources identified him as president of Jubo Dal’s Ward 6 unit in Shyamnagar municipality.

The woman alleged that Mannan had long harassed her and made immoral proposals after becoming acquainted through work at an NGO. The acting convener of Shyamnagar municipal Jubo Dal said the party would verify the allegations and take organisational action under its constitution. Police said no written complaint had been filed. Mannan’s phone was switched off, so his comments could not be obtained.

Dhaka University’s Bijoy Ekattor Hall administration has expelled Abdullah Al Mahfuz, a 2020-21 Bangla department student, from the hall for six months over allegations that he assaulted another resident student. His allocated residential seat has also been cancelled, according to a notice issued by the hall provost’s office.

The notice said an incident involving Mahfuz and resident student Ahmed Shahriar Nir occurred around 11:50pm on July 19 over use of a washroom beside the guest room in the Jamuna Block. Nir is a 2023-24 student in the Television, Film and Photography department and a Chhatra Dal leader. The report said an argument began during the Argentina-Spain World Cup final, followed by allegations that Mahfuz beat Nir and tried to take him to his room.

Bijoy Ekattor Hall Chhatra Dal submitted a written complaint, after which a three-member investigation committee was formed. The hall notice said the investigation found Mahfuz’s involvement and described his actions as against university and hall discipline. Although Mahfuz had been described as a worker for an Islami Chhatra Shibir-backed panel during the DUCSU election, the university branch of Chhatra Shibir denied any organisational affiliation with him.

Hafizur Rahman, a retired army member and accused in the murder case of Victoria Government College student Sohagi Jahan Tanu, did not surrender within the 24-hour deadline set by the Appellate Division’s chamber court. Cumilla court inspector Sadikur Rahman confirmed on Friday at 9 pm that Hafizur had not appeared before the court after the deadline expired. Cumilla Central Jail’s senior jail superintendent Shah Alam Khan also confirmed that he had not appeared.

On Thursday, following a hearing on an application filed by the prosecution, the chamber court of Justice Md Rezaul Haque suspended the High Court’s bail order until August 9. The court ordered Hafizur to surrender within 24 hours and directed law-enforcement agencies to arrest him if he failed to comply.

The High Court granted Hafizur bail on August 2, and he was released from Cumilla Central Jail on August 4. Tanu went missing on the evening of March 20, 2016, while going to tutor at a house in Cumilla Cantonment; her body was later recovered from bushes near the cantonment’s powerhouse area. Family members said they fear Hafizur may flee.

RAB has arrested Md Farid, the main accused in a case involving a tourist’s death during parasailing at Dariyanagar on Cox’s Bazar sea beach. Farid, identified by RAB as the owner of the parasailing company, was detained on Thursday night from the Azad Mini Market area of Middle Pirerbagh under Mirpur Model Police Station in Dhaka.

According to RAB, the parasailing operation at Dariyanagar was being run without adequate safety measures. A tourist died after the parasailing rope snapped, and Farid was named the main accused in connection with the incident. RAB-15 from Cox’s Bazar and RAB-4 from Dhaka conducted the joint special operation.

The arrest was announced in a news release signed by RAB-15 Assistant Director for Law and Media, Assistant Superintendent of Police A M Faruk, on Friday morning. RAB said the team acted on confidential information and arrested Farid at around 9:30 pm on Thursday. During preliminary questioning, Farid admitted that he had fled Cox’s Bazar and gone into hiding in Dhaka, according to RAB.

Fish trader Alamgir Hossain, described by relatives as a member of the main Nawabganj thana BNP unit in Dhaka, was shot in the capital’s Pallabi area on August 7. A female passer-by was also injured when gunmen opened fire near a tea stall in the Mirpur-11 Millat Camp area. Police said the attack occurred in the afternoon.

According to police and relatives, Alamgir was sitting outside a tea stall in Block B of Road 2, Section 11, Mirpur, at about 5:30pm when four people arrived in a private car and fired at him. He sustained gunshot injuries to the right side of his head, abdomen and buttock. Relatives took him first to Islamia Hospital and later to Dhaka Medical College Hospital at about 6:50pm, where he was receiving treatment in the emergency department.

Pallabi police said three rounds were fired. A relative alleged that local Jubo League figures Rubel and Bappa were among the attackers, but the allegation could not be independently verified and no response from those accused was available. Police have not confirmed a motive and are seeking witnesses and possible CCTV footage to identify and arrest the attackers.

Student Dal leader Monowarul Hossain Bokshi, 29, died after falling from the roof of a five-storey building during a police operation in Savar, Dhaka. The incident occurred around midnight on Thursday at a building in the BPATC Staff Quarters area, according to a report published on August 7, 2026. A case has been filed at Savar Model Police Station.

His father, Jafar Ali, alleged that police were searching the fourth floor for Monowarul’s nephew, Shahriar Kabir Soumik. He said a police officer ran to the roof and, shortly afterward, the family heard a loud sound from below. Police and household members then found Monowarul lying motionless on the ground. Neighbours helped take him to Enam Medical College Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.

Savar Model Police Station officer-in-charge Saiful Islam said Shahriar and Monowarul were accused in a case over the abduction of a 15-year-old girl in Pirgachha, Rangpur. Police said he jumped from the roof while officers sought to arrest the accused. Jafar Ali demanded a fair investigation and justice, while Student Dal leaders called for action against those involved.

Border Guard Bangladesh's Maheshpur Battalion (58 BGB) detained eight Bangladeshi women while they were allegedly attempting to enter India illegally through the Jibannagar border in Chuadanga. The detentions took place at 6:10am on Friday, August 7, during a special patrol in the area under Benipur BOP, according to a 58 BGB news release issued that evening.

BGB said the women were detained beside a paddy field belonging to Md. Ismail Hossain in Nabadurga Pur village, about 500 yards inside Bangladesh from border pillar 62/5-S. The operation was led by Subedar Md. Firoz. Maheshpur Battalion Assistant Director Munshi Imdadur Rahman confirmed the detentions.

The detainees were handed over to Jibannagar Police Station after a case was filed against them, Rahman said. Jibannagar Police Station Inspector Solaiman Sheikh said BGB filed the case as complainant. He added that all eight women were produced before a court later that afternoon.