Shaheen Mollah

“Fire, fire”. Sharmin Akter, 22, woke up hearing these desperate cries which shattered the stillness of the night in Mollabari Slum in Tejgaon yesterday. Her immediate thought was to save her one-and-a-half-year-old son, Nafi Hossain.

The gas supply now is the lowest since April 2020, shows data from Petrobangla -- in a development that informs the acute crisis plaguing the industrial sector as well as households.

Prices of almost all vegetables have gone up in Dhaka’s kitchen markets over the last two weeks, hitting the consumers hard, though it is the peak season for winter vegetables.

Khadiza Begum, a resident of Mirpur’s Jheelpar slum, has been struggling to cope up with expenses amid persistent inflation.

Natasha Jesmin, a teacher of the Academia School in the capital’s Wari, boarded a Dhaka-bound train around 7:00pm on Friday after a visit to her home in Faridpur.

With the country going to polls tomorrow, at least 86,000 inmates in 68 jails across the country also got a chance to exercise their franchise through postal ballots this time.

When Leon noticed a baby parakeet had fallen from its nest on a treetop, he knew he had to do something to help

The residents of Mohammadpur’s Beribadh area have been living with a growing sense of insecurity and fear over the last few months due to recurring robberies and muggings perpetrated mostly by teenage gangs.

Mohammad Suman, 35, was screaming in pain while lying on a bed at DMCH yesterday.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police yesterday sought assistance from the city’s ward councillors to ensure the presence of voters in the January 7 national election.

As soon as other passengers on Mohanganj Express screamed “fire”, Nadira Akhter Popy grabbed her three-year-old son, held him to her chest and ran in an attempt to get out of the train carriage and escape the fire

Sagar Hossain came to Dhaka from Munshiganj with his unwell mother on November 23 to avail treatment for her at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

With worried eyes, Shuily Begum, a day labourer, was waiting in the capital’s Mirpur 11 area alongside hundreds of other day labourers, hoping to find work.

Bus owners have refrained from operating long-route buses due to insufficient security measures on highways amid the ongoing blockade and hartal called by BNP and other parties.

Like every morning, Nargis Parvin made sure to tell her husband Jalal Uddin to stay safe when he would leave for work.

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.

The price of locally produced potatoes at the capital’s Karwan Bazar wholesale and retail market dropped by Tk 10 per kg from the previous week as imported potatoes from India started to hit the kitchen market yesterday.

There was an unusual silence at the Gabtoli bus terminal when this correspondent visited it yesterday morning. But amidst such an eerie atmosphere, this correspondent saw one 

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

Aklima Akter, 33, worked on the ninth floor Khawaja Tower, a 14-storey commercial building located on Bir Uttam AK Khandaker Road in Dhaka’s Mohakhali, which was engulfed by a devastating fire on Thursday afternoon.