The local administration in Bogura’s Sariakandi upazila has launched an investigation into an anti-drug activity after videos showed a union parishad chairman and his associates publicly beating suspected drug users and sellers.

Rab arrested a union parishad chairman under Dhaka’s Dhamrai upazila early today on charge of embezzlement of relief rice.

A union parishad chairman, who was sued for raping and torturing a woman at his office in Noakhali's Subarnachar upazila on