Negligence fuels surge in gas-related fires
7 March 2026, 03:09 AM
A couple of hours before dawn, 32-year-old Pinky Akter woke up and went to the kitchen to prepare sehri. Her family members were asleep.
7 March 2026, 03:09 AM
The knife she brought and the murders that followed
10 December 2025, 14:21 PM
Suspect Ayesha told the family she had neither a phone nor an NID
10 December 2025, 14:21 PM
‘We teach, but we can’t feed our children’
19 October 2025, 18:09 PM
Mohammad Ishak, who has been teaching at a madrasa in Sylhet for over 34 years, draws a monthly salary of only Tk 26,980 -- hardly enough to support his family and cover the educational expenses of his three children.
19 October 2025, 18:09 PM
Recovery of Looted Firearms: Announcing rewards brings no fruition
4 September 2025, 21:07 PM
Despite the home ministry’s announcement of significant rewards 10 days ago, no actionable information has been provided to the police regarding the firearms looted during last year’s July uprising.
4 September 2025, 21:07 PM
43 bodies a month recovered from rivers this year
29 August 2025, 18:30 PM
Bodies of a woman and a child were recovered from the Buriganga River on August 23. Autopsies initially found that they had been strangled before their bodies were dumped. A murder case was filed with Sadarghat River Police Station in this regard.
29 August 2025, 18:30 PM
Cocaine haul raises transit route concerns
26 August 2025, 18:05 PM
A Guyanese national was arrested with around 8.6kg of cocaine at Dhaka airport yesterday, and officials said the drug was not meant for local use.
26 August 2025, 18:05 PM
‘We will sleep in the car’
12 August 2025, 21:59 PM
Two men found dead inside a car parked in the basement of a private hospital in Dhaka on Monday had earlier told the car owner that they would sleep in the vehicle.
12 August 2025, 21:59 PM
Riyad-led group targeted another former AL MP
30 July 2025, 20:00 PM
The group led by former Students Against Discrimination leader Abdur Razzak Riyad, arrested for allegedly extorting a former Awami League lawmaker’s family in Gulshan, had targeted another ex-AL MP, Abdul Kalam Azad, a month earlier, said police.
30 July 2025, 20:00 PM
‘I am innocent, why is my bail being delayed?’
She was arrested by Rampura police on November 10 in a case filed over the death of Buet student Fardin Noor Parash. On Wednesday, DB said they found that Bushra was not involved in his death.
16 December 2022, 12:14 PM
‘Why is my father not talking to me anymore?’
When eight-year-old Mithila Akter saw her father's body at Dhaka Medical College Hospital mortuary, she kept asking other family members, "Why is my father not talking to me anymore?"
7 December 2022, 15:36 PM
A murder planned to fund a pleasure trip
The killing of an elderly man in his Chawkbazar flat in Dhaka on November 17 was not a simple case of robbery as law enforcers suspected primarily after seeing the nature of the crime.
23 November 2022, 12:12 PM
Militant snatching incident exposes security loopholes
Only four cops were escorting 12 militants, including death row convicts, when unidentified attackers attacked and snatched two of them away from Dhaka Chief Judicial Magistrate court premises on Sunday.
20 November 2022, 18:48 PM
Earned Tk 52 lakh legally, bought flat worth Tk 3.09cr
As a government servant, the suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Prisons, Bazlur Rashid, had earned only Tk 52 lakh legally during his service between 1993 and 2018.
23 October 2022, 08:07 AM
Don’t know why I’ve been sent into retirement: SP Baqui
Mirza Abdullahel Baqui, one of the three superintendents of police sent into retirement today, said he had no idea about his early retirement.
18 October 2022, 14:46 PM
“My mother died in my arms in the crushed car”
“My mother was in my arms as she breathed her last – crushed inside the car.”
16 August 2022, 11:24 AM
BAPEX calls jobseekers for written test after 8 years!
Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited (BAPEX) has called jobseekers for a written test – for assistant manager post – nearly eight years after they applied.
28 June 2022, 13:16 PM
“Death row fugitive worked as Imam; ran fake cancer cure centre”
Sheikh Enamul Haque – sentenced to death for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina – moved to Gazipur from Gopalganj in 2001, changed his name, and had a National ID card made with fake information later on.
19 June 2022, 09:13 AM
Remaining in Dhaka, "missing teenager" didn't contact family in Pallabi for 12 years
Seventeen-year-old Md Suman did not return home after he lost his mobile phone, worth Tk 3,000, while gambling in 2010.
24 May 2022, 11:57 AM
‘My son, why didn’t you come back too?’
Abdur Razzak Hawlader was wailing at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport as the body of Hadisur Rahman, third engineer of MV Banglar Samriddhi, did not arrive in Dhaka with 28 crew members.
9 March 2022, 08:35 AM
Carelessly discarded cigarette butts 3rd top cause of fires in 2021: Fire Service
Not only responsible for causing cancer, heart, and lung diseases, cigarettes have been listed as the third highest cause behind frequent fires in the country, after short circuits and burners, according to a report.
8 February 2022, 14:41 PM
Isolated incident or widespread practice?
Amid the ongoing student protests for safe roads, the teen demonstrators came across someone similar to their age driving a microbus, while the actual driver was dead asleep.
1 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Teenager driving microbus while driver sleeping in the back
A teenage boy was driving a microbus, trying to go through the Rampura Bridge area, this afternoon. Driver of the vehicle was found sleeping in the back.
1 December 2021, 09:30 AM
Killers trained, target clear
The killers’ target was clear: shoot and confirm the death of Cumilla city Councillor Syed Mohammad Sohel on the spot.
23 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Five arrested for confining and forcing teen into prostitution for 5 years in Dhaka
She was confined, tortured and forced into sex work for more than five years.
8 September 2021, 12:42 PM
Watch your step: Road 800m, lidless manholes 10, woes manifold
Maneuvering through the 800-stretch of a connecting road in South Matual is tantamount to partaking in extreme sports, with danger lurking every few steps.
7 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Firefighters think on their feet to rescue 18-yr-old from 4th-floor cornice
On Thursday morning, an 18-year-old boy was poised precariously on the fourth-floor cornice of a building, causing onlookers to fear that he might fall to his death at any time.
8 August 2021, 15:43 PM
Mother's search for son ends with identifying clothes; body already buried as unclaimed
It was their daily routine to try to reach him over phone, after Sadman Sakib Rafi went missing on January 13 this year.
23 February 2021, 07:49 AM
Battery-Run Rickshaws on DSCC Roads: Defying ban, they keep on running
“Run,” shouted battery-powered rickshaw driver Sajib to his cohorts. A police van was approaching their group of five standing at the Section area beside Gabtoli-Babubazar Road near Kamrangirchar, and they could not afford to stay still.
29 January 2021, 18:00 PM