The Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Force has addressed long-standing cooking and safe drinking water problems at the DESCO Ansar Guard in Mirpur, Dhaka, following directives from the force's Director General, Major General Abdul Motaleb Sazzad Mahmud.On October 11, the director of Dhaka Metropolitan Ansar and zone commander of the western zone visited the guard ...more

The Special Response Battalion (SRB) has arrested a madrasa head teacher, identified as Md Shafiuddin Khan Sifat, 26, in connection with a rape case filed over the alleged sexual assault of a 13-year-old student.An SRB-3 team arrested Sifat from inside Babul Hotel near Baragram Chairman Bari intersection in Kamrangirchar, Dhaka, at around 6:35pm on October ...more

The Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Force has launched a 28-day “Upazila/Thana Ansar Advanced Training-2026” programme under a pilot project based on the People’s Warfare Doctrine.The training began on October 4 at two Ansar battalion training centres as part of the Armed Forces Division’s (AFD) “Training of Forces Under People’s Warfare Doctrine” pilot project, an ...more

A suspected robber was arrested with a sharp knife at the Motijheel metro rail station in Dhaka on Monday after Ansar members intervened while he was allegedly attempting to snatch a woman passenger’s bag.The incident took place at the station’s Entry-A gate, where the suspect, identified as Zakir Hossain, was allegedly pulling at the woman’s ...more

A 48-year-old woman went missing after being swept away by the strong current of the Ichamati River while bathing with friends in Munshiganj's Sirajdikhan upazila on Sunday.The missing woman was identified as Habiba Rahman Babli, a resident of Rayerbagh area in Dhaka.According to locals, Babli went to visit a friend's house in Kunder Bazar area ...more

The Special Response Battalion (SRB-3) has arrested six people, including a police-listed alleged top criminal and extortionist, in three separate operations in Dhaka's Rampura area and recovered firearms, ammunition and local weapons.The arrested alleged top criminal was identified as Md Al-Amin, also known as Pichchi Al-Amin and Omar Faruk, 35. Five of his alleged associates ...more

Ansar members on duty at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka recovered a lost iPhone and returned it to its rightful owner early Sunday.At around 2:15am on October 4, Ansar member Mithun Kumar spotted the phone lying abandoned beneath a scanner belt near Heavy Luggage Gate No. 4 while performing his duty.He immediately informed the ...more

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has vowed to intensify efforts to prevent dengue, keep the city clean and stop illegal occupation of footpaths to ensure safe and unobstructed movement for pedestrians.DNCC Administrator Md Shafiqul Islam Khan made the remarks on Saturday while inaugurating a mosquito-larvae destruction and weekly cleanliness campaign at Manik Mia Avenue in ...more

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has opened a children’s playground, a Shaheed Minar and a renovated park in Ward 4 of Mirpur-13, with Administrator Shafiqul Islam Khan saying the city corporation is giving priority to creating open recreational spaces for residents.Speaking at the inauguration on Tuesday, Khan said the initiative was being implemented in line ...more

Dhaka University held a discussion meeting on Tuesday to identify measures for protecting public health from the harmful effects of tobacco and smoking and to establish the university as a tobacco- and smoke-free campus.The meeting, titled “Legal Obligations of Dhaka University and the Role of Dhaka University Journalists Association in Ensuring a Tobacco- and Smoke-Free ...more