Police recovered the bodies of three members of one family from their home in West Chanderkola village, Raripara Union, in Kachua upazila of Bagerhat on Tuesday morning. The dead were identified as Monira Begum, 55, wife of the late Abdar Ali Howlader; their son Ahad Howlader, 22; and Monira Begum’s mother, Rashida Begum, 85.

Police and local sources said several neighbouring women saw Rashida Begum’s body on the house veranda at about 1pm on Tuesday. After calling for family members, they entered the home and found the bodies of Monira Begum and Ahad Howlader inside. Police later arrived and recovered the bodies. Police and representatives of the Police Bureau of Investigation were at the scene.

Kachua police station officer-in-charge Harun Or Rashid said there were injury marks on the victims’ heads, leading police to initially suspect murder. He said the incident may have occurred two to three days earlier and had not been noticed because few people visited the house. Preparations were under way to send the bodies for autopsies to determine the exact cause of death, while police began investigating the case and seeking to identify those involved.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police has adopted extensive, multi-layered security measures to maintain order and ensure public safety in the capital ahead of July Mass Uprising Day on August 5. The measures are intended to address concerns over possible sabotage, untoward incidents, or disruptions to public security during the observance.

Police have significantly increased picket and checkpoint duties across Dhaka, with intensified searches and checkpoints at all entry points to the metropolis. Detective Branch and Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime personnel in plainclothes will be deployed operationally at important venues. SWAT, the bomb disposal unit, and dog squad units will conduct special sweeping operations at locations expected to draw large crowds.

All event venues and the July memorial area have been placed under a special security plan involving CCTV cameras and drone surveillance. Intelligence activities by CTSB and IAD personnel in plainclothes are continuing, while Quick Response Teams are being kept ready for emergencies. Additional DMP personnel, RAB, and CID will remain active in the field, and senior police officers will directly supervise the overall security arrangements.

International Crimes Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Md Aminul Islam said the trials in murder cases linked to the July mass uprising are targeted for completion within the next year. He made the announcement at a press conference on Tuesday, saying investigators and prosecutors were working to conclude the cases swiftly while completing the judicial process.

Islam said the tribunal has already completed trials in six cases, with three verdicts delivered before he joined and three afterward. He described completing six trials within one to one-and-a-half years as very fast, adding that the cases were concluded with transparency, impartiality and international standards. He said an even faster process could raise questions among the public, so proceedings were advancing transparently and at a normal pace.

He said about three more cases are awaiting verdicts this month. Arguments are underway in a case involving Obaidul Quader, while arguments have ended in the case involving Mahbub Ul Alam Hanif and a verdict may come any day. Arguments in the Taim murder case are expected to begin within days, and witness and evidence work in the case involving Ziaul Ahsan is nearly complete.

A 16-year-old boy, Sajjad, was stabbed to death in Bhairab upazila of Kishoreganj after seeking information about his uncle’s stolen boat. The incident occurred around 8pm on Monday on Yusuf Ali High School Road. Sajjad, son of local resident Sadeq Mia, was taken to Bhairab Upazila Health Complex with serious injuries, where the attending doctor declared him dead.

Local sources said a steel boat belonging to Swapan Mia was stolen from the Brahmaputra River in the Lakshmipur area about 15 to 16 days earlier. Based on local suspicion, a man referred to as Anar Dakat was detained and questioned. He allegedly admitted stealing the boat and promised to return it, but later left the area and went into hiding.

Police said Sajjad saw the accused on Monday night and tried to gather local people by shouting. Anar allegedly stabbed him and fled. Bhairab police recovered the body from the health complex and sent it to Kishoreganj Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy. No case statement had been filed by the family, while police operations to arrest the accused were continuing.

Moulvibazar Sadar Model Police arrested three alleged drug traders and seized 8,000 yaba tablets, Tk 440,000 in alleged drug-sale proceeds and a private car. The operation was conducted on Monday afternoon on Srimangal Road in Moulvibazar town after police received confidential information about a suspected large yaba consignment, according to a report published on August 4.

Police said the suspects were travelling in a white private car toward the Moulvibazar-Dhaka bus stand area to receive the consignment. A team led by Sub-Inspector Ripton Purkayastha stopped the vehicle near Panchami Washing Centre. Based on information provided by driver Murad Ali Milon during initial questioning, police detained his two alleged associates, Manik Ahmad and Sabbir Ahmad, near the SMS bus counter.

Police searched the suspects and the vehicle in front of witnesses, recovering the tablets from four tape-wrapped packets inside two shopping bags. The three detainees have been named as Manik Ahmad, 32, and Sabbir Ahmad, 26, of Zakiganj in Sylhet, and Murad Ali Milon, 45, of Rajnagar in Moulvibazar. A regular case was filed under the Narcotics Control Act, 2018.

Police recovered the body of an unidentified woman from a footpath in front of Salimullah Muslim Hall at Dhaka University, within Shahbagh police station jurisdiction in the capital. The woman was described as homeless, and her age was estimated at about 60.

The body was recovered on Tuesday morning, August 4. Shahbagh police sub-inspector Liton Ali sent it to Dhaka Medical College Hospital at about 10:15am after the recovery.

The body is currently being kept at the morgue of Dhaka Medical College Hospital. The report did not provide any information about the woman’s identity.

Authorities in Kurigram say they will take legal action against people accused of posing as journalists to harass and extort money from primary schools. A report published on August 4, 2026 said individuals using the names of obscure newspapers, unregistered news portals and Facebook pages entered schools, took photos and recorded videos without permission. Teachers said the visits disrupted classes and unsettled students.

Teachers alleged that the visitors requested documents, asked irrelevant questions and later demanded money for motorcycle fuel or lunch. Some teachers reportedly paid between Tk500 and Tk1,000, fearing reports that could damage their schools’ reputations. At Sonaripara Government Primary School in Chilmari, head teacher Regina Sultana said two men identifying themselves as journalists demanded money for lunch after asking unrelated questions.

Teachers’ association leader Rowshan Ara Begum said some people threatened to publish reports if not paid. Kurigram Journalists’ Union member secretary Manowar Hossain Liton said the activity was also harming the reputation of legitimate journalists. District Primary Education Officer Swapan Kumar Ray Chowdhury said several alleged fake journalists had been identified and legal measures would be taken soon.

The Katiadi upazila administration demolished a limestone factory allegedly built around an attempt to obtain an illegal gas connection from a high-pressure Titas Gas transmission pipeline in Kishoreganj. The operation took place Monday afternoon in Kazirchar village of Masua union, led by Assistant Commissioner (Land) Laboni Akter Tarana. Officials demolished three kilns and seized a large quantity of limestone from the facility, which had not yet begun operations.

The pipeline runs beneath the Arial Kha riverbed, and gas was still escaping from the leakage point during an on-site visit. Residents initially saw small bubbles in the water but became alarmed as the bubbles increased. Titas began an investigation after local complaints and found evidence of an attempted illegal connection. Its preliminary assessment is that the leak occurred while gas was being stolen from the pipeline for the factory. Union chairman Mohammad Abu Bakar Siddique said no trade licence had been issued for the factory.

Titas engineers are repairing the leak. The seized limestone and bricks from the kilns were placed in the custody of the union parishad chairman. Officials said preliminary information indicates involvement by several local people, while the landowner allowed the land to be used without legal approval or licence. Legal action is being prepared, and Titas is preparing a case.

A Narayanganj court sentenced Moktar Ali, 47, to death for murdering his second wife, Fatema Akter Rekha. Additional District and Sessions Judge Nivana Khair Jacy delivered the verdict on Tuesday afternoon in the presence of the defendant. The court also imposed a fine of Tk20,000.

Court Police Inspector Abdus Samad confirmed the verdict. He said Moktar Ali killed Rekha in 2022 over an extramarital affair. Ali is the son of the late Mokshed Ali and lives in the Barirtek area of Gognagar Union in Narayanganj Sadar Upazila.

After reviewing evidence and witness testimony in the case, the court found the charge proven beyond reasonable doubt, according to the court police inspector. It then ordered the death sentence and the financial penalty. The report was published on August 4, 2026, and subsequently updated the same day.

Supporters of Chhatra Dal and Shibir engaged in a chase and counter-chase at the Alia Madrasa campus in Old Dhaka on Tuesday afternoon, leaving several people reportedly injured. The campus situation became tense amid ongoing clashes at Jagannath University and Dhaka College.

General students said the confrontation began over the alleged takeover of a hall. Reporters at the scene saw students from both sides carrying sticks and throwing bricks and stones. Many participants were also seen wearing helmets during the clash.

Police personnel were working to stop the confrontation. The report did not provide the number or identities of those injured, nor details about medical treatment. It also did not include official statements from the groups involved or further information on the campus situation after the incident.

More than 500 fruit saplings were allegedly cut down overnight at Omar Nagar Nursery near Kachiyapukuria Mujibnagar in Lalmai, Cumilla. The incident occurred on Sunday night in Bhulain South Union, according to the report. Nursery owner and returned expatriate Mizanur Rahman said the damage exceeded Tk 500,000.

Rahman, a resident of Kachiyapukuria village, established the nursery about one and a half years ago on 30 decimals of land to produce and sell flower, fruit, vegetable and grafted saplings. The report said nearly all saplings in the garden appeared to have been cut with sharp weapons, most of them completely severed around the middle. Rahman said the damaged plants included improved varieties of mango, malta, papaya, olive, banana and lotkon.

Pradip Chakraborty, in-charge of the Bhushi Bazar Investigation Centre, visited the site after receiving the report. Rahman said he would file a written complaint with Lalmai police station. Local resident Fazlur Rahman Mintu called for an investigation and punishment of those responsible. Lalmai police station Officer-in-Charge Mizanur Rahman said police had been sent to the scene and legal action would follow if a written complaint was received.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police said it arrested 458 people and filed 64 cases during regular operations across the capital over the past 24 hours. The report, published on August 4, 2026, said police conducted drives in areas under different police stations in Dhaka and made the arrests while recovering evidence and narcotics.

Mirpur Division recorded the highest number of arrests, with 135 people detained, followed by Uttara with 71 and Tejgaon with 57. Wari arrested 49 people, Lalbagh 37, Motijheel 36, Ramna 34, Gulshan 31, the Detective Branch six and the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit two.

Police said the seized items included 11 kilograms and 980 grams of cannabis, 6,336 yaba tablets and 90 bottles of phensedyl. Other items recovered were one one-shooter gun, one samurai, 17 mobile phones, 30 blank cheque-book pages, Tk1,080 in cash and counterfeit notes worth Tk2.8 million. Legal action against those arrested is under process, according to the report.

ASI Abdul Motaleb, the Putijuri Union beat officer under Bahubal Model Police Station in Habiganj, has been closed to Habiganj Police Lines after a call recording alleging a demand for money using the UNO’s name went viral on social media. Bahubal Model Police Station Officer-in-Charge Ruhul Amin Talukdar said higher police authorities took the action on Monday night. The recording caused widespread concern in the area.

Locals said Motaleb went to Mirerpara in Putijuri Union on the afternoon of Friday, August 1, but returned after finding no one involved in sand extraction. The report said a journalist, posing under a false identity, later called him. Motaleb allegedly proposed meeting directly to “resolve” the matter.

When the caller said a direct meeting was not possible, Motaleb allegedly asked for money to be sent through bKash and urged a meeting the following day to settle the issue. Contacted by phone, Motaleb said a journalist had called him but that he did not know the caller. Asked what the bKash payment was for, he said he did not know.

A Dhaka tribunal has sentenced six young men to life imprisonment for the gang rape of two young women in the Shubhadya area of South Keraniganj four years ago. Judge Munshi Md. Moshiar Rahman of Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-4 delivered the verdict on Tuesday, August 4. State lawyer Md. Ershad Alam, known as George, confirmed the ruling.

The court also fined each convict Tk 100,000. It directed the Dhaka district magistrate to recover the fines by selling the convicts' movable and immovable property and provide the money to the victims' families. The convicted men are Rahul, Md. Diamond, Afsar Uddin Anim, Parvez Haque Palash, Minhaj alias Minhaj Abedin, and Minhaj alias Babu alias Minhaj Babu.

According to the case allegations, the women and friends had gone out for a birthday celebration on June 25, 2022. While seeking an autorickshaw after dining at Pankouri Restaurant, the accused allegedly blocked their way, assaulted them, and took them to a dark field at Rataner Khamar. Police later rescued the women. One victim's father filed the case on June 29, and the tribunal heard testimony from 12 witnesses.

Police Constable Parvez Mia, 30, was killed after a truck carrying rice husk overturned onto a highway police pickup in Kuliarchar, Kishoreganj. The crash occurred around midnight on Monday at the Dariakandi bus stand area on the Bhairab-Kishoreganj regional highway. Parvez, who worked at Bhairab Highway Police Station, was from Habiganj Sadar upazila.

Witnesses and police said the pickup was travelling to respond to a reported CNG autorickshaw accident. Its driver stopped the vehicle by the roadside after one of its wheels developed a problem. A truck approaching from behind then lost control and overturned onto the pickup, trapping Parvez inside.

Local residents and a Fire Service team began rescue work soon after the crash and recovered Parvez's body from beneath the truck. Bhairab Highway Police Station Officer-in-Charge Suman Kumar Chowdhury confirmed the incident, describing it as an unexpected and tragic accident. He said the highway police family was deeply saddened by the death.