Anwarul Haider

A general diary was filed over the alleged rape and torture of a woman in Noakhali’s Hatia upazila on Sunday, after which a forensic test of the victim was conducted at Noakhali General Hospital yesterday -- two days after she was admitted on Saturday.

The National Human Rights Commission yesterday sent a letter to Hatia Police Station in Noakhali, asking the law enforcers to register a complaint and take necessary legal steps over the alleged rape and torture of a woman there.

Noakhali-5, seen as Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader’s “impenetrable fortress” for a decade and a half, transformed into a fiercely contested battleground for the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami after the 2024 uprising.

The 192-kilometre road network within Lakshmipur municipality has become largely unfit for vehicles due to years of neglect.

Residents of the 150-year-old Noakhali municipality have long suffered due to a poor drainage system.

An acute shortage of teachers has long been hampering academic and administrative activities at 16 government high schools across the nine upazilas of Noakhali.

The broken roads include 3,509 km of paved roads, 209 km of brick-paved roads, and 5,310 km of earthen roads

Floodwaters have begun to recede from most areas in Feni, where continuous rainfall and hilly run-off since June 8 caused embankments to collapse at 12 points along the Muhuri, Kahua, and Silonia rivers, inundating large parts of Parshuram, Phulgazi, and Feni Sadar upazilas.