A van driver was killed and a young man was seriously injured after a dump truck collided with a van on the Baneshwar-Charghat road in Puthia, Rajshahi. The crash occurred at about 8:30pm on Friday in front of Khobir Haji’s five-storey building. The injured man is receiving treatment at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.

The deceased was identified as 60-year-old Manik Chand, son of Sheikh Chand of Holidagachhi village in Charghat upazila. He worked as a van driver. The injured person, 28-year-old Shiblu Hossain, is also from Holidagachhi village and is the son of Rohit Ullah. Rescuers said both men were seriously hurt in the collision between the dump truck and the van.

They were taken quickly to the emergency department of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital, where the attending doctor declared Manik Chand dead. Shiblu Hossain was admitted to ward number 8 and is undergoing treatment. Legal procedures concerning the cause of the accident and related matters are under way, according to the report.

A theft was reported at the Freedom Fighters Complex beside the busy Tanore-Mundumala road in Tanore municipal headquarters, Rajshahi. According to a report published on August 1, intruders broke the lock on the main entrance of the long-closed, unguarded building and stole three to four ceiling fans and some generator parts. The estimated value of the stolen items is Tk 30,000.

Local sources said the theft may have occurred between 12:30am and 6am on Friday. Residents informed police after the incident became known in the morning. Locals said the complex was completed and inaugurated under the previous government but was never put into effective use. Ground-floor rooms were not rented out, while no government office operated regularly on the upper floor.

Despite its roadside location, the building had no security guard, night watchman or CCTV coverage, residents said, blaming prolonged mismanagement and inadequate security. Tanore police visited the site and preparations are underway to file a case. UNO Naima Khan said officials were gathering information and would take steps to identify those involved and bring them under the law.

Three members of the same family were killed after a truck ran over a motorcycle in the Ambariya area of Dighalia upazila in Khulna. The crash occurred at about 9:30pm on Friday. The victims were residents of Uthali village in Kalia upazila of Narail: Farzana, 22, wife of Sheikh Shihab; his sister-in-law Rubia, 20; and a 22-month-old girl.

Police said Sheikh Shihab was travelling from Khulna to Kalia on a motorcycle with the two adult women and the child. When they reached Ambariya, a truck coming from the opposite direction ran over the motorcycle. The two women and the child riding on the motorcycle died at the scene.

Sheikh Shihab, who was driving the motorcycle, survived the crash. Dighalia police station investigation officer Shubhra Prokash Das confirmed the three deaths. Police have seized the truck involved, and legal proceedings are under way. The deaths have cast a pall of grief over Uthali village and the victims' relatives.

Bangladesh’s Detective Branch Cyber and Special Crime (North) unit arrested Mariful Islam, 21, and Hasinur, 28, also known as “Baccha Bau,” over allegations that they used fake visa verification websites to defraud people seeking overseas jobs. DMP Media Division Additional Deputy Commissioner Niaz Mehdi disclosed details of the operation on July 31. Investigators arrested the two on July 28 in a secluded area under Kishoreganj police station in Nilphamari district, following a case filed at Pallabi police station.

According to police, the group created a false visa verification website modeled on an Australian government site. When victims entered passport numbers, the site displayed “visa approved.” The suspects allegedly used fake work permits and visa approval letters to gain the trust of job seekers. They also showed false copies of Canada’s Labour Market Impact Assessment, which the report notes is not a visa or permission to enter Canada.

One complainant, Chayedul Haque, said he paid about Tk480,000 through bKash and Rocket for medical, visa processing and document charges. Police said the group allegedly took crores of taka from more than 72 people. Officers seized a laptop, seven smartphones, 13 fake SIM cards and nine forged Bangladeshi passports.

The United Arab Emirates has agreed in principle to hand over former Bangladesh inspector general of police Benazir Ahmed, who is accused in multiple cases involving corruption, assets beyond known income, passport fraud and crimes against humanity. The information was announced on July 31 by Anti-Corruption Commission spokesperson and deputy director Md Aktarul Islam. Ahmed has been held in a UAE prison for more than a month and a half.

After reviewing preliminary case documents following an Interpol Red Notice, Dubai Police requested information related to legal and technical requirements for the detainee’s extradition. Anti-Corruption Commission investigators are preparing the requested materials, according to Police Headquarters spokesperson AHM Shahadat Hossain. Lawyer Olora Afrin said a UAE court would consider evidence, compatibility between the two countries’ laws, presentation of information in court and diplomatic efforts.

Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed said the government does not expect the return process to be difficult, citing relevant UN Charter commitments regardless of whether an extradition treaty exists. A senior Home Ministry official indicated that the process could take several more months. Dubai Police arrested Ahmed at a shopping mall on June 12, and Bangladesh subsequently sent 144 pages of required documents.

Police in Tongi, Gazipur, arrested madrasa teacher Ibrahim Khalil, 35, over allegations of molesting and sexually abusing two nine-year-old students. Tongi West police station officer-in-charge Md Arifur Rahman said Khalil was sent to jail through a Gazipur court on Friday afternoon. The reported incidents occurred at Haji Kalu Mia Mohila Madrasa in the Mudafa Bishartek area of Tongi on Thursday night.

Residents said Khalil, a teacher at the madrasa, had allegedly often harassed underage children. They alleged that on Wednesday he took a first-grade student into his room, molested her and threatened her not to disclose the matter. They further alleged that at about 8pm on Thursday, he molested and sexually abused another girl from the same class.

After the second child told her guardian about the allegation after returning home from the madrasa, local residents became angry, staged protests, surrounded the institution and carried out vandalism. Police arrested Khalil at about 1am Thursday night. A case was filed under the নারী ও শিশু নির্যাতন আইনে on Friday afternoon before he was sent to court. Police said no remand request was filed against him.

An angry crowd in Nishchintapur Mahirakhain village, Ward 9 of Jiri Union in Patiya upazila, Chattogram, set fire to an alleged drug den and handed a suspected dealer to police around midnight on Thursday. Patiya police arrived after being informed and detained Md. Eskandar, also known as Esk, taking him to the police station.

Local residents and police sources said the operation had allegedly been running for a long time from a dilapidated room under the leadership of Mahmudul Haque. Residents had grown angry over the alleged drug trade and surrounded the site. Haque escaped, while Eskandar was detained. The report said 10 yaba pills were recovered from him and more yaba pills were found at the location.

Local BNP leader Forkan and Chhatra Dal leader Latif said political activists from different parties and residents had united because drug dealing had increased in the area. Resident Md. Halim said warnings had failed to stop the activity. Patiya police sub-inspector Kamal Hossain said legal action was being taken against Eskandar and he would be sent to jail through a court. Residents demanded Haque's prompt arrest.

A farm worker, Md Mostakim, 35, died after being electrocuted while planting rice seedlings in Fatikchhari, Chattogram. The incident occurred at about 8:30am on Friday in Shahnagar village, Ward No. 6 of Lelang Union. Mostakim, son of Riyaz Uddin from Netrokona district, had come to Fatikchhari to work as an agricultural labourer.

According to local sources, Mostakim and two other workers entered farmland near Sannyasirhat to transplant rice seedlings. A broken electric wire had already fallen into the water in the field, but the workers did not notice it. Mostakim came into contact with the electrified water during work and died at the scene. The other workers accompanying him narrowly escaped.

Local Union Parishad member Mohammad Azam confirmed that a broken electric wire was lying in the field and that the workers began working without seeing it. Fatikchhari police station Officer-in-Charge Robiul Alam Khan said police had been sent to the scene after receiving information about the death. He said the body would be handed over to the family after legal procedures are completed.

A farm worker, Md Mostakim, 35, died after being electrocuted while planting rice seedlings in Fatikchhari, Chattogram. The incident occurred at about 8:30am on Friday in Shahnagar village, Ward No. 6 of Lelang Union. Mostakim, son of Riyaz Uddin from Netrokona district, had come to Fatikchhari to work as an agricultural labourer.

According to local sources, Mostakim and two other workers entered farmland near Sannyasirhat to transplant rice seedlings. A broken electric wire had already fallen into the water in the field, but the workers did not notice it. Mostakim came into contact with the electrified water during work and died at the scene. The other workers accompanying him narrowly escaped.

Local Union Parishad member Mohammad Azam confirmed that a broken electric wire was lying in the field and that the workers began working without seeing it. Fatikchhari police station Officer-in-Charge Robiul Alam Khan said police had been sent to the scene after receiving information about the death. He said the body would be handed over to the family after legal procedures are completed.

At least 32 mine workers were killed in a devastating explosion at a coal mine on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, on Thursday. At least 10 more workers remain trapped inside the mine, while the provincial disaster management authority said rescue operations are continuing in the mine’s depths.

Government mine inspector Ghani Baloch said preliminary investigators believe toxic methane gas accumulated inside the mine and caused the explosion. Rescue teams initially recovered seven bodies, then retrieved another 25 during further searches. Local authorities fear the chances of finding survivors are very low because oxygen levels inside the mine fell rapidly after the methane explosion, requiring rescuers to work with extreme caution.

Balochistan’s mines and minerals minister Shoaib Nosherwani pledged full provincial government support for the rescue effort and announced compensation of 500,000 Pakistani rupees for each victim’s family. Authorities have ordered an investigation committee to determine the precise cause and review mine safety arrangements. The Pakistan Central Mines Labour Federation blamed serious safety negligence and demanded action against those responsible and strict enforcement of mine safety rules.

A 20-year-old woman, Ria Begum, died after falling from the eighth floor of the new building at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, according to a report published on July 31, 2026. Ria, the wife of a Singapore-based expatriate, had been receiving treatment in the hospital’s medicine department for several days. She fell from the balcony of Ward 802 at about 4 a.m. on Friday.

Other patients and relatives rushed her to the hospital’s emergency department after she was seriously injured. The attending doctor declared her dead at about 5:15 a.m. Her father, Latif Mallik, said she had been admitted three days earlier because of tongue sores, various physical complications and mental instability.

Mallik said people present tried to stop Ria, but she did not listen and fell onto a private car below. Hospital police camp inspector Md Faruk said her body has been kept at the hospital morgue. Shahbagh police have been informed, and an investigation and legal procedures are under way.

Jahida Begum, a resident of Nonabhanga village in Bagerhat Sadar upazila, has accused her daughter-in-law, the woman’s parents and brothers, and some local people of abuse and a conspiracy to seize her homestead. She made the allegations in a written statement at a news conference at Bagerhat Press Club on Friday at 11am. Jahida said she and her disabled husband, Nur Mohammad Fakir, were living in fear for their safety.

According to Jahida, her only son Shahidul Islam married Asifa Akter Sumi, daughter of Chhattar Mallik from the same area. She alleged that after the marriage, Asifa behaved badly toward her and her husband. Jahida also claimed that, at the instigation of her daughter-in-law and her parents and brothers, mental and physical abuse of elderly and ill family members had intensified.

Jahida said the boundary of her home adjoins that of her daughter-in-law’s father, and alleged that the accused were trying to occupy their land. She also alleged threats to kill them and seize the property. Jahida claimed her son was being held under pressure as part of a plan to take over the family land and house. She sought urgent intervention, a proper investigation and justice from senior administration officials.

Police have arrested Alamgir Siddiqui in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, over allegations involving the removal of government-seized sand, operation of a sand syndicate and a recent clash in Chhagalnaiya. According to police sources, he was arrested in an operation on Friday with assistance from the Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Branch. Chhagalnaiya police station officer-in-charge Md Abu Taher confirmed the arrest and said further details would be provided later.

The case gained attention after about 223,830 cubic feet of sand was allegedly removed from a government-seized stockpile in the Shubhapur area of Chhagalnaiya. The sand had been seized under a court order. Police began an investigation after a case was filed, seized several trucks carrying allegedly stolen sand and arrested truck drivers. Local residents, however, had alleged that the alleged main perpetrators remained beyond reach.

Separate clashes, attacks and gunfire also occurred between two BNP factions in Chhagalnaiya over control and dominance in the sand business. Upazila BNP leader Riaz Uddin Majumdar Tipu was injured. A case named 14 people, with Siddiqui listed as the principal accused. Counter-allegations say Tipu assaulted Siddiqui’s supporters, though both sides deny the accusations.

Allegations have emerged that dredger pipes were installed through tunnels dug beneath the Nalchity-Barishal main regional highway in Khojakhali, Nalchity upazila of Jhalakathi. The July 31, 2026 report said the pipes are allegedly being used to extract and transport sand illegally from a river. Residents fear the riverbank highway, which is prone to erosion, could collapse after being damaged in this way.

A field visit found several sand depots in Khojakhali, with nearly all allegedly pulling dredger pipes under the road through tunnels without permission. On Sunday night, a sand depot called Bondhon Traders allegedly dug a deep new tunnel and installed another pipe. Its proprietor, Tanzir Hossain, denied creating the tunnel. Heavy vehicles use the river-adjacent highway day and night, adding to local concerns about a major accident.

Nalchity executive officer Rizvi Ahmed Sabuj said strict legal action would follow if the pipe is used to supply sand. Jhalakathi Roads and Highways sub-divisional engineer Md Al-Amin said his department had not authorized road excavation for pipes, calling it illegal. He said officials would inspect the site and take legal and administrative measures. Local residents have demanded pipe removal and exemplary punishment for those involved.

A mobile court in Singari village of Bhangura upazila, Pabna, sentenced alleged fake milk producer Ashraful Ali, 42, to one year of simple imprisonment and fined him Tk 200,000. Upazila Nirbahi Officer and Executive Magistrate Md Arifuzzaman delivered the ruling after conducting an operation on Thursday night. Ashraful is the son of Nur Islam of the village, according to the report.

During the operation, officials seized three drums of jelly, various chemicals and fake milk from the site. The seized materials and fake milk were destroyed. Upazila sanitary inspector Nurul Islam and police personnel were present during the operation.

Mobile court sources said Ashraful had allegedly operated a sealing centre at his home and produced fake milk for a long time, supplying it to sealing centres of various companies. The operation began at around 9pm following a confidential tip, and the court was convened after authorities found evidence supporting the allegation. The executive magistrate said the punishment was imposed under the Consumer Rights Protection Act, and Ashraful was handed over to police that night.