Mahbubur Rahman Khan

A noble effort to help visually impaired pedestrians in Dhaka city is becoming pointless due to the insensitivity of some hawkers and the authorities concerned.

The Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) has come up with a grading system for restaurants on the basis of quality of food and overall hygiene of the establishments.

The Customs Intelligence claimed to have detected that Crescent Group laundered Tk 1,297.65 crore abroad against 657 fake export bills in collusion with some officials of Janata Bank's Imamganj branch in Dhaka.

Sumi Akhter was on the lookout for a skin lightening cream as she wanted to appear fairer at her sister's wedding just two weeks away.

Cleaners of both city corporations of Dhaka are putting extra labour into removing polls-time posters, but it seems residents are not getting a clean city anytime soon, as new posters and banners with congratulatory messages to elected MPs are replacing them.

The tussle in the Awami League camp of Munshiganj-3 seems to have subsided following a rebel campaigning for the nominee.

An initiative by Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), in an apparent push to reinforce traffic discipline on city streets following protests in August, has raised eyebrows and questions.

Plastic banners are everywhere -- on lampposts, walls, flyover pillars and footbridges. Politicians use them for their publicity.

The ongoing gas crisis is likely to linger for at least another week as engineers are finding it difficult to fix the technical problem in an LNG supply line in Cox's Bazar.

It opened to the public a year ago to this week, with promises of breathing life into suffocating traffic in one of the more congested parts of the capital. But the Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover has been left in the darkness -- literally and figuratively -- for months on end, putting commuters at risk and no one to be held liable.

A decade ago it was an important road between Danga Bazar and Paikordi of Narsingdi. It was also useful for residents of Narayanganj as part of the road goes through this district. When two bypass roads were built as its alternatives, this one fell almost to disuse. So, neither authorities nor locals cared much about the road and its adjoining land.

Right before the general election, some political parties and nomination seekers have begun pasting posters on the city's walls, defying a law prohibiting such acts.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday filed two separate cases against a police superintendent and his wife on charges of amassing wealth of over Tk 3.49 crore through bribery and other corrupt means.

Despite having adequate supplies, retail prices of some spices and essentials have gone up in city markets ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.

Former BNP chairperson's adviser Mosaddak Ali Falu and two other businessmen laundered a large amount of money from the country and invested it in multiple businesses in Dubai, the Anti-Corruption Commission has found.

Government hospitals across the country are facing a serious shortage of some key medical supplies -- saline, infusion and transfusion sets, and blood bags -- as their production at the state-run IPH remained suspended for about a year.

The ongoing investigation into the BASIC Bank loan scam cases by the Anti-Corruption Commission has slowed down on the question whether the bank's former chairman Abdul Hye Bacchu will be made accused.

It has been a work in progress in different wards of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) to alleviate public sufferings mainly from the deluge during rainy season and its after-effect that causes severe damage to main thoroughfares as well as narrow lanes.

Farhana Nasrin cradled her one-and-a-half-year old daughter with one hand and tried to light the stove with the other. The baby was crying for food and the mother wanted to cook something to calm her down.

Around 10:00pm, Redwanur Rahman was going to his Azimpur residence. Suddenly, near the New Market footover bridge, he found himself blinded by bright, flashing lights.