Saurav Hossain Siam

The day of March 23, 2022 often returns in the form of nightmares to torment Sheikh Farid, a steel re-rolling mill worker. On this date he lost three of his fingers while working at the mill.

Workers compelled to work in unsafe conditions with low wages

Even after a decade into the sensational seven-murder in Narayanganj, the families of the victims continue to wait for justice, as the case trial drags on.

Villagers beat four people to death and severely injured another one in Narayanganj’s Sonargaon upazila on Sunday night on suspicion that they were robbers.

Environmental activists and Narayanganj city dwellers are concerned as the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority has been felling dozens of mature trees on the bank of Shitalakkhya river for a development project.

A total of 97 candidates in Chattogram lost their security deposits in the just concluded national election for failing to get one-eighth of the cast votes as per the Election Commission law

Like any other day, Md Hasan was sitting inside the sleeper coach of Cox’s Bazar-bound Bengal Paribahan on Friday night, getting ready to check passengers’ tickets.

Supervisor finds timer IED inside moving bus; informs bomb disposal unit who later defused it

A canal has been filled up with sand in the name of establishing a playground in the Godnail area of Narayanganj City Corporation.

Men, women and children holding buckets, pitchers and gallons waiting in a long queue in front of a tap at a local mosque -- this was what this correspondent saw while vising Ekota Road in Baznapara area under Narayanganj City Corporation on Saturday afternoon.

Nurul Islam used to earn a decent living as a tenant farmer in his village in Narayanganj’s Araihazar upazila. He also reared cattle and caught fish from small waterbodies to make some money on the side.

Soon after the BNP announced its October 28 rally, Salauddin Salo, member secretary of Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal’s Narayanganj unit, left his home to avoid arrest.

Schedule disruptions, non-functional fans and lights, and unhygienic toilets are still a  common sight for passengers who travel by train on Dhaka-Narayanganj route, although the Bangladesh Railway has recently increased the fare by Tk 5.

The Criminal Investigation Department of police has submitted the charge sheet in the murder case filed over the July 2021 fire at Hashem Foods Ltd in Narayanganj, which killed 54 people, dropping the names of the company owner and his four sons.

The steel mill factory in Narayanganj where an explosion yesterday left four workers dead and three others injured, had been melting iron for the last six months without approval from authorities, inspection officials said

Narayanganj-based clothing traders have also been affected by the recent fire in Bangabazar and are passing days in uncertainty as wholesalers and retailers in the popular market in Dhaka owe a significant amount of money to their suppliers.  

Thousands of Hindu devotees yesterday performed Ashtami Snan, a ritual of bathing in the holy waters of the Brahmaputra at Langalbandh in Narayanganj.

Organisers of a cultural event in Narayanganj had to cover their banner that read Ekusher Uchcharan, Dur Ho Duhshasan (the pronouncement of 21: get lost, misrule) after police said they would not allow the event to be held with the slogan.   

Remember Niazul Islam Khan? On January 16, 2018, he was seen with a gun in the open during a clash in Narayanganj city.