Shaheen Mollah

With law enforcement agencies now busy tackling the coronavirus situation, drug dealers have seemingly taken advantage of the consequent reduction in monitoring and become active again in different spots of the capital.

A large number of garbage management workers in the capital have been working without any protective gear, putting themselves at grave risk of contracting coronavirus and other diseases.

Health workers and police personnel who come in close contact with unidentified dead bodies for conducting autopsies and enquiries are at a high risk of Covid-19 infection.

For traders, Eid is the busiest time. From shop owners to vendors on the street, the two Eids are the occasions for the most volume of sales in a year. A lot of plans and life goals rely on making a good profit during the festivals.

The historic iftar market in capital’s Chawkbazar area remained almost empty on the first day of Ramadan amid shutdown for coronavirus.

Yasmin Islam, a nurse at the surgery ward of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital, received a call from her landlord while she was at work last week.

Never in recent history has Dhaka city been this hungry. Even when disaster struck elsewhere in the country -- when crops failed, homes washed away by rivers, villages flooded -- the city always had space to take in more.

Every night before going to bed, Jannatul used to lock the room of the house they lived in.

Three people were killed in a fire originated from a mosquito coil at a house at Bauniabad in Mirpur.

Nine-year-old Raihan is the only child of his family. His mother Rabeya Begum named him Omar Faruk Limon at birth, with Raihan as the nickname. Six years ago, his limbs became disfigured due to polio.

Patients who have not tested positive for the coronavirus but are generically sick are caught in a quandary -- to go to the hospital or not?

Although Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi yesterday urged the public to avoid panic buying amid the looming coronavirus threat, the news of the first death from Covid-19 in Bangladesh aggravated the buying spree among consumers for rice, potatoes, lentils, onions, garlic and ginger.

The Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital opens a flu corner to ensure special care of people coming to hospital with flu.

A young female patient with gastrointestinal complications died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Saturday afternoon.

As part of efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus infections, the government is converting six hospitals in and around the capital into facilities for treating COVID-19 patients.

He is back. Ishtiaq Ahmed, known as the drug lord of Mohammadpur Geneva Camp, was forced to stay out of his empire after the anti-narcotics crackdown began in 2018.

When a cocktail bomb explodes, it does so with a loud bang, often louder than a transformer bursting. When multiple bombs detonate one by one, the explosion can be distinctly identified.

Abir Ahmed spent Sunday night in a state of restless elation, eagerly anticipating the next morning’s farewell programme for him and his fellow SSC examinees.

This is pretty much what Shahin Alam heard, when he arrived at Karwan Bazar in search of work.

Onion prices have shot up by Tk 40-50 a kg, within 24 hours of a meeting in which Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi requested retailers, wholesalers and retailers to help government prevent any price spiral ahead of Ramadan in April.