Plan to vaccinate 15k convicts in jail in first phase
The Department of Prisons has finalised a plan to vaccinate for Covid-19 inmates in 68 jails in the country.
25 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Man Killed in Feb 19 ‘Gunfight’: A trucker, not a drug dealer
A man, who was killed in an alleged gunfight with Rab-10 in Dhaka’s Keraniganj on Friday, was the driver of a truck that ran over and killed a Rab member in Mymensingh’s Bhaluka on February 14.
24 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Teens hawk drugs in Karwan Bazar
Around 7:00pm on February 14, a group of five or six young girls aged between 14 and 18 were seen roaming around in front of Tejgaon level crossing.
21 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Conflicting versions of Wari murder crop up
Family members of a man whose body was found by police by chance on Thursday said the woman with whom he had an affair had killed him because he wanted to break up.
12 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Tusher-Wife Meet in Jail: Prison officials aided the crime
A probe has found that Hallmark General Manager Tushar Ahmed spent around two hours with a woman at a prison officer’s room in Kashimpur Central Jail-1.
7 February 2021, 18:00 PM
LNG supply dearth worsens gas crisis
Dhaka city dwellers are suffering due to shortage of pipeline gas for two months and the authorities’ promises to solve the problem so far appear empty.
4 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Greed puts lives at risk
Three months ago, a devastating fire raged through a portion of Kalyanpur slum, killing a young man and injuring several others. The investigation by fire service officials found faulty electric connections behind it.
31 January 2021, 18:00 PM
All set for Covid jab roll-out
The government has almost completed the groundwork for rolling out Covid-19 vaccine in the country early next month.
25 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Evidence Preservation at Police Stations: It’s a mess in Maalkhanas
At first glance, it looked like piles of trash jumbled together.
15 January 2021, 18:00 PM
‘I will not spare the scoundrel’
Showing the handmade card she made for her elder sister on her 17th birthday on October 9 last year, eight-year-old Reana Asif (not her real name), the younger sister of an English-medium school student in Dhanmondi who died after rape, said, “I will not spare the scoundrel who killed my sister. I want justice.”
14 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Unauthorised, uncontrolled
Alamgir Hossain was fixing pieces of elastic thread to surgical masks using a heat pressing device inside a barely hundred square feet room in the Balurmath area of Kamrangirchar.
6 January 2021, 18:00 PM
2020, the Year of Pandemic: Heartbreaks in heartland
Abdur Rahim*, a private tutor in Dhaka, thought his life had finally stabilised after two decades of hard work. With a steady income, he could afford a place in the capital and sustain his family.
3 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Long road to justice
The family members of Benarasi weaver Mohammad Arman, who was wrongly arrested five years ago, are counting the minutes for his release.
1 January 2021, 18:00 PM
‘We’re beaten mercilessly’
Until Sunday night, the sidewalks in front of the Jatiya Press Club were teeming with protesters pressing their demands for various causes, but since yesterday morning the area has been deserted.
7 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Death After BSMMU Surgery: Two years gone just to file case
Rafique Sikder, a filmmaker, admitted his 55-year-old ailing mother Rawshan Ara to the capital’s Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) for kidney treatment on July 1, 2018.
28 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Slum fire ravaged everything they had
Rahmat Mia, 23, lives in a tin-shed room with a monthly rent of Tk 3,500 with his wife, mother, sister and niece in Mohakhali’s Sat Tola slum.
24 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Cases Over Bus Torching: He was in hospital, still made accused
When buses were being torched in Dhaka on November 12 afternoon, Zakir Hossain Siddiqui, a vice-president of Jubo Dal, was undergoing treatment for a blood disease at LabAid Hospital.
18 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Torching of Buses: Cases riddled with questions
Hazrat Ali was selling grocery items at his shop on the first floor of Shegunbagicha kitchen market when a bus was set alight near Aziz Super Market in the capital’s Shabagh area around 1:40pm on Thursday.
14 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Mohammadpur Geneva Camp: Notorious narcos back in business
Police checkposts stand just before the entrance of Mohammadpur Geneva Camp. A few steps into the camp, it’s the same old sight that used to be seen at the notorious drug den of the capital before the 2018 anti-narcotics crackdown.
14 November 2020, 18:00 PM
DSCC’s waste collection ‘reform’ raises questions
The recent move by Dhaka South City Corporation to “reform” the city’s waste collection has not fared well with citizens, who say they are being charged excessively by the newly-appointed contractors, and the service is substandard.
7 November 2020, 18:00 PM