A man of Hindu community in Bogra’s Shahjahanpur upazila is stabbed to death after he stands up against hoodlums who were harassing girls.

The High Court yesterday ruled that the government would have to compensate the family of Jihad, a four-year-old who died falling down a 300-foot well shaft in the capital's Shahjahanpur in 2014.

The High Court rules the government to compensate the family members of four-year-old Jihad, who died after falling into a deep well at Shahjahanpur of Dhaka in 2014.

A deltaic country, the plains of Bangladesh are crisscrossed with a million water bodies. The canals, marshlands and the rivers make the quintessential image that Rural Bengal conjures up.

An accused in a case filed for killing a girl and slicing her in seven pieces in Motijheel earlier this month is killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion in Dhaka's Shahjahanpur area