Mashfiq Mizan

“Is this a place to ply a rickshaw?”

Mugdho, 25, died after getting shot in the head

On every Friday, Mostofa Zaman Samudra, a 17-year-old SSC graduate, goes to Juma prayers with his father, Tajul Kal.

Samudra's mother recalls his last words after the 17-year-old died of bullet injuries

"Move aside! Get me a trolley! He needs help!".The air inside Dhaka hospitals was filled with cries for help and painful screams

Some of them are teens, some in early 20s  and many are middle-aged men. The one thing common between all of them is that they have been shot either by shotgun pellets or bullets, as police and BGB opened fire at protesters and alleged infiltrators during the recent unrest centring the quota protests.

It was absolute mayhem in Rampura and Badda areas on Friday..Quota protesters clashed with police and BGB personnel since morning to dusk, leaving at least 13 killed and over 500 injured. Many of the victims had bullet and shotgun pellet wounds on the upper part of their bodies..Thes

It was absolute mayhem in Rampura and Badda areas yesterday.

Is it a vast river, or a habitable land?

“Move aside! Get me a stretcher! He needs help!”

The normalisation of the far-right happened across the mainstream media, not just by outlets owned by conservative Bolloré

Imagine vast, shimmering water reflecting a clear blue sky. Boats glide across the surface, carrying villagers through a network of rivers and canals teeming with life. Schools of fish, like silver flashes, dart beneath the water.

“Where were you for so long?” The frustration was palpable in the voices of the residents. “It’s been 36 hours since the rain stopped, and our homes are still underwater!”

A bittersweet farewell unfolded at Suhrawardy Udyan and Bangla Academy yesterday as the curtains fell on the 2024 Amar Ekushey Boi Mela. Hundreds of bookworms thronged the fairgrounds, a sight that has become synonymous with the month of February in Dhaka.

From the untimely blare of loudspeakers to election camps mushrooming everywhere and the cityscape being marred by posters on every available surface, needless to say, electioneering is going on in full swing in the capital.

If one visits TSC, Dhaka University now, they will encounter a little red and white banner cheerfully wishing people a Merry Christmas beside the Shantir Paira sculpture. However, what catches the eye even more is the message written in bold and big letters alongside it: "GO VOTE"

Some of them are rickshaw-pullers, some ply auto-rickshaws on Dhaka roads while others are shopkeepers, house-helps, bus drivers, private employees, and so on

Rows of buses standing idle at terminals, images of torched vehicles and reports of transport workers being burnt alive inside vehicles -- these are some of the events that have recently dominated the news, during the initial two phases of the BNP-Jamaat enforced blockade and hartal.

A group of day labourers was waiting for employers to come and hire them to work on construction sites at Mirpur-11 yesterday morning.

Nasima Begum, a 35-year-old mother of four, is a regular customer of Fakinni Bazar (a market for ultra poor), located along the rail tracks under Bijoy Sarani-Tejgaon Flyover.