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Arsonists set fire to four polling stations across three upazilas in Rajshahi two days before the national election. Two hand bombs were also recovered near one of the voting centres. Police suspect the arsonists sparked the fires by dousing petrol Read More …
Three suspected saboteurs were arrested by the Narayanganj railway police on Sunday while they were hurling crude bombs at the rail tracks in the Narayanganj rail station area. Narayanganj railway police sub-inspector Mokhlesur Rahman told New Age that the three Read More …
Three police officers sustained injuries after a crude bomb exploded while they were on duty near Tinmatha intersection of Gabtoli upazila in Bogura on Wednesday afternoon, the last day of the 36-hour blockade called by the BNP and its allies. Read More …
Police have arrested four people accused of detonating crude bombs across Dhaka, including the offices of the deputy commissioner and returning officer, and engaging in sabotage and arson. The suspects have been identified as Ashiqur Rahman Panna, former Swechchha Sebak Read More …
At least two on-duty traffic police sergeants were injured after a crude bomb exploded in Gulistan, just an hour after a bus was set ablaze in the same area. The incident took place near Paltan traffic police box at around Read More …
Several crude bombs were exploded at BNP vice-chairman Abdul Awal Mintu’s house at Daganbhuiyan upazila in Feni early Tuesday. The incident took place at about 1:30am. Miscreants also set fire to the private car of Mintu’s younger brother Akber Hossain, Read More …
A person was injured tonight in a crude bomb blast near Baitul Mukarram area of the capital’s Paltan. Paltan Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md Salauddin Mia said miscreants hurled two crude bombs in the area. One exploded and the other one Read More …
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested over 300 people from different areas, including Dhaka, in connection with the violence and sabotage activities during the BNP’s grand rally on October 28. RAB Legal and Media Wing Director Commander Khondoker Al Moyeen Read More …
Two crude bombs were denoted by unidentified individuals in the Panthapath area of Dhaka on Thursday. The incident took place in front Hotel Olio International around 2:40pm. According to witnesses, crude bombs were hurled from above — one fell on Read More …
Two crude bombs found near the main gate of Rajshahi Rail station on Sunday night have been defused. Security guards of the railway station spotted the bombs wrapped with red scotch tape around 9:30 pm and informed the police. On Read More …
Three crude bombs were recovered from the Nilkhet area of Dhaka on Thursday morning, on the last day of a three-day blockade enforced by the BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and their allies. The bomb disposal unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Read More …
The US Department of State’s Office of Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism, along with partners from CRDF Global and Thin Blue Line, International, trained Bangladesh Police officials on investigative skills to counter chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive terrorism from Read More …
Bangladesh and India are worried about the disturbing news of armed insurgents infiltrating into restive Mizoram state of northeast India as refugees. Both Delhi and Dhaka are sharing intelligence reports, browsing local newspapers, and getting updates from local sources in Read More …
Four explosions of crude bomb-like objects have been reported in Aminbazar, Savar, the gateway to Dhaka. The explosions occurred on the road in front of a filling station in Aminbazar on the Dhaka-Aricha highway at around 2pm on Saturday. Shortly Read More …
A team of Counter Terrorism and Bomb Disposal Unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) defused a crude bomb found in front of Government Bangabandhu Technical and ICT Institute principal’s room in Gurudaspur upazila of Natore early Sunday. Earlier, on Saturday Read More …
A soldier has died in the explosion of an improvised explosive device planted by the Kuki-Chin National Front, an ethnic separatist group. Army personnel were on their way to Painum Para to distribute drinkable water and oral rehydration packets. The Read More …
Three Bangladeshi peacekeepers were injured when a motorcade of a patrol team under Bangladesh Formed Police Unit (BANFPU-2) came under attack by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Mali on Sunday morning. The Armoured personnel Carrier (APC), which was carrying Read More …
A construction worker was killed and another injured in an explosion of Improvised Explosive Device in Ruma upazila of asia on Tuesday, said police. The deceased Md Rashed, 18, and injured Md Dulal were from Chhanua village under Banshkhali upazila Read More …
Two soldiers of the Bangladesh Army were killed and two others were injured when the separatist group Kuki-Chin National Army (KNA) carried out an attack in Ruma upazila of Bandarban on Tuesday. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) confirmed in a Read More …
As Exercise Tiger Lightning 2023 began at the Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Support Operations Training (BIPSOT) center on Feb. 26, 2023, members of the Oregon Army National Guard 3-116 Cavalry Unit, Charlie Company out of Woodburn, Oregon, as well Read More …