RAB-2 has arrested two people, including suspect Md. Mosharraf Hossain Poni, over the death of schoolteacher Ronjina Parvin during an alleged snatching incident in front of the National Parliament Building. RAB-2 commander Additional DIG Noymul Hasan announced the arrests at a press conference on Sunday.

According to RAB-2, its intelligence information and technology-assisted tracking indicated that the two suspected snatchers in the Ronjina Parvin murder case were staying in the Purba Tejturi Bazar area under Tejgaon police station. RAB-2 then conducted an operation in the area and detained them.

The force said the suspects were arrested within 24 hours of the killing along with the motorcycle allegedly used in the snatching. It said Poni faces multiple cases at police stations across the country. On Saturday, motorcycle-borne snatchers allegedly pulled Ronjina's bag while she was travelling by rickshaw, causing her to fall and suffer a head injury. Doctors at Suhrawardy Hospital declared her dead. Her husband, Abdul Matin, filed a case with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police station.

A Dhaka court on Sunday sentenced Monir Hossain to life imprisonment for stabbing Biplob Bashir to death in Gopibagh 25 years ago, following a dispute over repayment of a Tk 20 loan. Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge-13 Zahidul Islam also fined him Tk 20,000 and ordered a further three months of rigorous imprisonment if he fails to pay. The accused was absent when the verdict was delivered.

According to the case and court sources, the killing occurred on the afternoon of December 4, 2001. After leaving a mosque following prayers, victim’s father Nazir Ahmad saw Monir stabbing his son repeatedly on the road. Nazir Ahmad and others detained Monir after hearing Biplob’s cries. Biplob was taken first to Monowara Hospital and then National Hospital, where a doctor declared him dead.

Nazir Ahmad filed a murder case at Demra police station the same day. Police submitted a charge sheet against Monir on March 31, 2002, and the trial began after charges were framed on September 3 that year. Five witnesses testified. Monir received bail in 2009, but it was cancelled in 2013 after he failed to appear in court.

Police arrested Saif Imran, 37, in Gulshan, Dhaka, after he allegedly falsely identified himself as an assistant director of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence, or DGFI. The arrest took place near the Pakistan High Commission after he parked his motorcycle beside the mission on Saturday afternoon.

According to police, Imran claimed that DGFI vehicles were usually parked at the location when he was told not to park there. He returned in the evening and parked his motorcycle at the same place again, prompting police suspicion. During questioning, he admitted that he was not an officer or member of DGFI.

Police arrested him on allegations of using a false identity to conceal his real identity. A fraud case has been filed against him at Gulshan Police Station, and he has been sent to court. Gulshan Police Station Officer-in-Charge Daud Khan confirmed the matter.

Liberation War Affairs Minister Ahmed Azam Khan told parliament on Sunday that a special directorate has been established to provide rehabilitation and state recognition to those killed, injured or otherwise affected during the July movement. He made the remarks in response to a question from lawmaker Sanzida Islam Tuli about progress on recognition, compensation and rehabilitation.

Tuli said the ministry had planned a directorate for state recognition and rehabilitation of July movement martyrs and injured people. She also sought details on plans and current progress for people subjected to enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killing. The minister said the ministry had arranged a large event at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Exhibition Center for the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, attended by victims and family members regardless of political affiliation.

Khan said the government was committed to granting state recognition to leaders of BNP, Jamaat and other political parties who were subjected to disappearance, killing, torture or disability over the past 17 years. He added that an initiative was under way to create another directorate to ensure their proper rehabilitation and state evaluation.

Lieutenant Colonel Mostafizur Rahman has assumed responsibility as commanding officer of Rapid Action Battalion’s RAB-7 unit in Chattogram. He previously served at RAB-15. RAB Assistant Director for Media ARM Mozzafar Hossain confirmed the appointment. In his new role, Mostafizur Rahman will lead the unit’s operations in Chattogram and surrounding areas.

He succeeds Lieutenant Colonel Md Hafizur Rahman, who had previously served as RAB-7 commanding officer. The source said Mostafizur Rahman performed various duties at RAB-15 before taking up the new assignment. The change is part of periodic reassignments to key posts, including commanding officers, across different RAB units.

According to related sources, officers from the army, navy and air force generally serve in RAB on deputation for fixed terms before returning to their respective services. RAB-7 conducts operations involving law-and-order control, crime suppression, anti-drug drives and action against other offences in Chattogram and nearby areas. Related officials said these activities will be carried out in a more coordinated manner under the new commander.

Bangladesh’s Election Commission on Sunday issued a new gazette updating the descriptions of 11 parliamentary constituencies to incorporate newly formed upazilas and a union parishad. The changes cover Thakurgaon-1, Bogura-2, Pirojpur-1, Mymensingh-10, Brahmanbaria-3 and 4, Cumilla-3, Lakshmipur-2 and 3, Chattogram-2, and Cox’s Bazar-1.

Election Commission officials said the amendment is intended to align constituency information with administrative restructuring and will not significantly alter the actual voter areas or boundaries of the affected seats. In Thakurgaon-1, newly created Ruhia and Bhulli upazilas were included after being formed from Thakurgaon Sadar. Mokamtala was added to Bogura-2, while South Gafargaon was added to Mymensingh-10.

The gazette also includes the new Barishal union parishad in Brahmanbaria-3 and excludes it from Brahmanbaria-4. Bangra upazila was added to Cumilla-3, Fatikchhari North to Chattogram-2, and Matamuhuri to Cox’s Bazar-1. The source says the revisions mainly update administrative identities rather than create major practical changes to parliamentary boundaries.

Bangladesh received $180.18 million in new foreign loans from development partners in July, the first month of the current fiscal year, while repaying $453.23 million in principal and interest on earlier borrowing. The government therefore paid $273.05 million more in external debt obligations than it received in new disbursements, according to an updated Economic Relations Division report released on Sunday.

Foreign loan disbursements in July were 13.39 percent lower than in the same month of the previous fiscal year, when Bangladesh received $208.04 million. The July repayment total included instalments, interest and principal on existing external loans.

Bangladesh had paid $446.68 million in principal and interest during the first month of fiscal year 2025-26, meaning the comparable repayment cost rose by about 4 percent over one year. Economists said debt payments exceeding new loan releases are increasing pressure on external financing, with potential effects on funding for development projects and foreign-exchange management if instalment and interest burdens continue to grow.

Bangladesh Bank recorded a net profit of Tk25,900 crore in fiscal year 2025-26, up Tk3,280 crore from Tk22,620 crore in the previous fiscal year, 2024-25. The central bank’s board approved the financial statements for the past fiscal year at a meeting on Sunday chaired by Governor Mostakur Rahman in the central bank’s conference room.

The board also approved an incentive bonus equivalent to six times the basic salary for central bank officials. Bangladesh Bank’s lending-management operations remained active despite an economic slowdown, as banks facing liquidity shortages borrowed more money from the central bank than before. This increased the central bank’s interest income.

Profits also rose because reserve funds invested in different countries generated good returns. Economists said earning profit is not a central bank’s main function, stressing its responsibilities for banking-sector oversight, inflation control, private-sector investment and job creation. They said the deterioration in the economy and banking sector contributed to the higher profit and cautioned that the central bank should not stray from its core goals. In fiscal 2023-24, it made about Tk40,000 crore in actual profit, including Tk15,300 crore in net profit.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Humayun Kabir said Saudi Arabia and Turkey have taken a positive stance on Bangladesh’s inclusion in the Mecca defense alliance. Responding to journalists’ questions on Sunday, he also said Dhaka sees no risk in joining the alliance.

Kabir said Bangladesh’s relationship with China has reached its highest level of strategic engagement. As part of that relationship, Bangladesh and China are set to begin diplomatic and defense dialogue, according to the state minister.

The date for the planned diplomatic and defense dialogue with China has not yet been finalized. Kabir repeated that Saudi Arabia and Turkey had shown a positive attitude toward Bangladesh’s possible membership in the Mecca defense alliance, while Bangladesh does not identify any risk linked to the matter.

Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has summoned former army chief General S M Shafiuddin Ahmed for questioning over allegations that he acquired illicit assets through various irregularities and corruption. He has been instructed to appear at the ACC headquarters in Segunbagicha, Dhaka, at 12:30pm on September 14 and bring a photocopy of his national identity card. ACC public relations officer Aktarul Islam confirmed the matter on Sunday.

An ACC notice signed by director Md Abul Hasnat said Shafiuddin’s statement was needed for the inquiry into the allegations. The commission formed a two-member inquiry team led by Hasnat, with deputy director Mozammil Hossain as a member. According to the notice, the inquiry into the allegations against Shafiuddin began on December 14, 2025.

A senior ACC official said the matter remains at the inquiry stage. After completing its work, the team will submit a report to the commission, which may decide whether to file a case if evidence supports the allegations. If the allegations are not substantiated, the inquiry may be closed. Shafiuddin served as army chief from June 24, 2021, until his retirement on June 23, 2024.

Islami Chhatra Shibir’s Islamic University unit held a protest march on Sunday to demand the whereabouts of two long-missing students, Waliullah and Al Muqaddas, and exemplary punishment for those involved in their disappearance. The programme was organised on the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. The march began at the university’s Bottola at about 1pm, passed through halls and main campus roads, and ended at the main gate with a brief rally.

The organisation’s leaders and activists, along with about 200 students, joined the programme. Participants chanted slogans demanding answers from the administration over the two students’ disappearance and also raised slogans against the Awami League. Islamic University unit president Md Yusuf Ali and secretary Rashedul Islam Rashed attended, as did Kushtia district Chhatra Shibir president Md Imran Biswas.

At the rally, Yusuf Ali called for the missing people to be found immediately, or for their families to be told the location of their graves if they are not alive. He demanded identification and legal punishment of those responsible, questioned the work of an investigation committee, and sought a progress update and clear report within one week. He warned of further movement with general students otherwise.

Bangladesh recorded three additional dengue deaths in the past 24 hours, while 1,097 patients were admitted to hospitals with the disease, according to a Sunday press release from the Directorate General of Health Services. The admissions figure was the highest single-day total reported this year. The reporting period ran from 8am Saturday to 8am Sunday.

The previous highest daily admission figure this year was 996, recorded last Saturday. During the latest 24-hour period, 258 patients were admitted in Dhaka division outside city corporations, 243 in Khulna and 123 in Barishal. Admissions also included 116 in Chattogram, 109 in Dhaka South City Corporation and 82 in Dhaka North City Corporation.

In the first 30 days of the current month, 39 people died and 19,373 were infected, the release said. Since January, total dengue cases have reached 34,683 and deaths have risen to 93. Of all infected people so far, 61 percent are male and 38 percent are female. During the latest reporting period, 793 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery.

Bangladesh’s National Board of Revenue said its VAT Audit, Intelligence and Investigation Directorate in Dhaka Division uncovered alleged VAT evasion of nearly Tk 318 crore by battery producer Jiuzhou Industry Limited. The NBR disclosed the finding in a news release on Sunday, based on information related to the company’s battery production and sales. The company’s factory is located in Rupganj, Narayanganj.

According to the release, a preventive team from the directorate raided Jiuzhou Industry on August 3 following intelligence information. During the operation, officials seized commercial documents, records and accounting papers. A subsequent detailed review and calculation using the seized materials found alleged evasion of Tk 317 crore, 92 lakh, 51 thousand and 378.

The NBR alleged that the company had been operating while concealing actual information with the aim of evading government revenue. It said procedures are under way to recover the evaded revenue and pursue further legal and judicial action under VAT law. Jiuzhou produces and markets batteries and related components, including batteries for IPS, UPS, solar systems and motor vehicles, using imported raw materials and equipment.

Police have submitted a charge sheet against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy and 27 others in the killing of Abdur Rahman Jisan in the Matuail area of Jatrabari, Dhaka, during the July uprising. Jatrabari police station court official Sub-Inspector Mohiuddin Chowdhury confirmed on Sunday that investigating officer Sub-Inspector Kawsar Hossain filed the charge sheet on 8 July. A hearing on accepting it is set for 6 October.

The case alleges that a decision to suppress protesting students and members of the public was made at a 14-party alliance meeting chaired by Hasina at Ganabhaban on 19 July. It says the plan was implemented through Hasina’s instructions and messages sent from abroad by Joy, with the participation of other accused.

According to the charge sheet, senior police and Rapid Action Battalion officers directed subordinates to suppress the movement, and large numbers of police were deployed in Jatrabari on 20 July. It also alleges that some local Awami League, Jubo League and Chhatra League activists joined attacks with weapons. Jisan was shot dead while serving water to protesters, and his father Babul Mia filed the murder case on 25 August 2024.

Nine people were injured in a clash between two local BNP factions over control of sand extraction from the Jamuna River in Nalsandhya, Sarishabari upazila of Jamalpur on Saturday night. The injured included Pingna Union BNP finance secretary Md Masud, BNP member Chan Mia, former union Jubo Dal general secretary Mazharul Islam Mukul, member Md Anis, and BNP workers Harun Or Rashid, Humayun Kabir and Abdur Rahim.

Local sources said former Pingna Union Chhatra Dal general secretary Subhash and his associate Sakhawat had allegedly been illegally extracting sand from the Jamuna River for a long time. Masud, Chan Mia and other local residents protested over the matter, after which Subhash and Sakhawat became angered, according to the sources.

At about 8:30pm, Subhash and Sakhawat allegedly arrived on eight motorcycles and attacked Masud and his associates at a tea stall with locally made weapons. Three injured men—Anis, Chan Mia and Masud—were referred to Jamalpur General Hospital after their conditions worsened, while others received local treatment. Police said no written complaint had yet been filed and legal action would follow if one is submitted.