Gazipur City Polls: Zahangir dead set on getting mother elected
Despite the ruling Awami League’s repeated warning of taking stern action against him, suspended Gazipur city mayor Zahangir Alam is adamant to back his mother in the mayoral race.
6 May 2023, 18:00 PM
6 May 2023, 18:00 PM
Gazipur City Polls: AL nominee’s success rests on Zahangir
Suspended Gazipur mayor Zahangir Alam’s decision on participating the May 25 city polls may become the determining factor in the success of Awami League mayoral nominee Azmat Ullah Khan, say local leaders of the ruling party.
19 April 2023, 01:20 AM
19 April 2023, 01:20 AM
GCC ex-mayor embezzled Tk 2.6cr from GCC coffer
Suspended Gazipur mayor Jahangir Alam embezzled Tk 2.6 crore of city corporation money using a fake city corporation bank account.
26 December 2022, 01:00 AM
26 December 2022, 01:00 AM
It’s unlawful, a violation of human rights
The incident where an accused BNP leader was seen cuffed and fettered during his mother’s namaz-e-janaza in Gazipur has touched off outrage among rights activists and citizens.
22 December 2022, 01:40 AM
22 December 2022, 01:40 AM
Jahangir ‘spent on’ events that never happened
Suspended Gazipur City Corporation Mayor Mohammad Jahangir Alam may have pocketed at least Tk 1.57 crore from the city corporation fund in the pretext of celebrating Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary in 2020, according to an internal investigation by the city authorities.
5 November 2022, 02:00 AM
5 November 2022, 02:00 AM
Gazipur road widening: Compensation unpaid, yet work resumes
The Gazipur City Corporation has resumed widening streets and construction of drains and footpaths without compensating those who lost land for the development work.
14 September 2022, 02:40 AM
14 September 2022, 02:40 AM
Land-related Feud / 26 cases against a retired teacher
Twenty-six cases of extortion, vandalism, cheque forgery and looting.
10 June 2022, 18:00 PM
10 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Rise meteoric, fall too
He became the vice chairman of an upazila parishad, general secretary of Gazipur city Awami League, and mayor of Gazipur -- all before he was 40.
22 November 2021, 18:00 PM
22 November 2021, 18:00 PM
The tale of three siblings
Long ago, paddy growers used to conduct land levelling employing a levelling board drawn by a pair of cows to catalyze the yield of crops.
6 January 2021, 18:00 PM
The waste mountains of Gazipur
In proper garbage management, waste should be disposed of in a protected landfill area first to minimise pollution of surface and ground water, soil and air. Later, those have to be gradually recycled, reused and incinerated.
18 October 2020, 18:00 PM
No child left behind
In an open field adjacent to Gazipur’s Sal forest, groups of children, aged between four and 14, sit on floor mats doing their school lesson, while their teachers walk around, helping them out.
15 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Free rides to hospital
Go to the CNG-run autorickshaw stand in Gazipur’s Board Bazar area, you can’t miss a three-wheeler with stickers on its front, back, sides and roof, reading “free for the poor, helpless and the physically-challenged”.
7 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Tulips bloom for the first time in Bangladesh
A little piece of cropland in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur is now abuzz with local visitors after a couple in the area managed to harvest a full bloom of tulips, a plant that has grown for the first time in Bangladesh.
16 February 2020, 12:50 PM
Trapped in flames; help never came
“We are trapped by the flames. We can’t go downstairs. Please help!” These were the words of Uttam Kumar Das as he called his cousin Ranajit after the fire broke out at an electric fan factory in Gazipur Sunday afternoon.
16 December 2019, 18:00 PM
The success story of Jharna
Jharna Begum, who once sold clothes from door to door while covering her face to evade creditors, is now the centre of a tale of success that even intrigued the queen of the Netherlands.
21 September 2019, 18:00 PM
An effort to reduce train accidents
Around 10am on a busy weekday, Joydevpur Railway Station was teeming with travellers eagerly waiting for their trains.
8 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Living by making fishing rod
More than 50 families at Daleshahore village in Sreepur upazila earn their livelihood by making and selling bamboo-made fishing rods.
22 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Humayun Ahmed's 6th death anniversary observed
Yesterday, on the occasion of beloved writer-director Humayun Ahmed's sixth death anniversary, his wife Meher Afroz Shaon, sons Ninit and Nishad, and father-in-law Mohammad Ali remembered the writer in Nuhash Polli, Gazipur, where he was buried.
19 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Illegal parking chokes Dhaka-M'singh highway
Traffic jam has been an everyday phenomenon on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway as significant portions on both sides of the road at Chandna crossing in Gazipur remain occupied due to illegal parking of trucks and covered vans.
2 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Teaching from the heart
When her husband died twelve years ago, it took quite a toll on Minara Begum, now 55, from Kornapur Crossing area of Gazipur's Sreepur upazila.
21 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Families kept in wait, still
For the last one year, all the five women had was hope.
9 September 2017, 18:00 PM
An accident shrouded in mystery
The death of a waste garment trader, Jakir Hossain, 42 in Gazipur, in an apparent road accident is shrouded in mystery. The Tk 27 lakh that he had been carrying with him disappeared.
22 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Compositions of a carpenter
Nazrul Islam is a true artist masquerading as a professional carpenter. The man full of humour can't tell you his actual age. With a shy
16 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Ahead it's all dark
The sole bread earner of an eleven-member family, Gias Uddin, a boiler mechanic at Multi-Fabs Dyeing Ltd in Gazipur, has been put in
4 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Gazipur handmade puffed rice makers struggling
A good number of people at Barotopa village in Sreepur of Gazipur are now passing busy time producing muri (puffed rice) in a
1 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Dilapidated Gazipur road's state worsens
If you go to Joina Bazar in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur presently, your journey may turn into a nightmare. If you get on a motor vehicle,
27 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Akheri Munajat today
The first phase of three-day Biswa Ijtema, the second largest Muslim congregation after the Hajj, ends today with the Akheri Munajat seeking spiritual well-being and welfare of the Muslim Ummah.
9 January 2016, 18:00 PM