Shaheen Mollah

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.

“Mithu! Hey Mithu!” calls reverberate along the length of the road in front of Shah Ali Mazar on a cool winter midday.

With burns all over his body, 20-year-old Mehedi Hasan kept asking his sister whether he would be able to attend yesterday’s college entrance exams.

Sitting at her home in Narayanganj’s Siddhirganj, a feeble-looking Maksuda Begum stares vacantly into the distance. She mumbles most of the time making her words difficult to catch.

It used to draw Dhaka’s hip crowd and the expat community alike.

Sitting on the floor by her son, Nurunnahar gently moves Ibrahim’s head upwards and helps him drink water.

With its clean and calm ambience, the institute looks like a privately-run one, well-equipped to provide treatment to patients.

Traders at New Rajdhahi Supermarket in the capital’s Tikatuli area, whose shops were gutted in Wednesday’s fire, are facing tough times as they will not be able to resume business anytime soon.

There seems to be no stopping the spiralling prices of onion. Each kg of the essential spice was sold for Tk 240-260 in the capital yesterday and the prices kept rising by the hour.

“Soha moni [dear], where have you gone?... How could you take my daughter, Allah?” Nazma Akter groaned in pain as she asked these questions at intervals, with her bandaged legs placed on a pillow in the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (Nitor) in the capital.

The train accident in Brahmanbaria yesterday left at least 16 dead and shattered the lives of many.

After burying Md Muslim in Sreemangal, his children along with their mother were returning to Chattogram by Udayan Express. But on way, they met the accident and lost the mother Jahera Khatun.

Ten days after the Rupnagar gas cylinder blast in Mirpur, 13-year old Bishwajit can barely see in his left eye.

On the night of October 14, Sanjida Begum fell off the stairs of her Azimpur New Colony residence, and hurt her leg.

Rupnagar cylinder blast has changed the lives of Bishwajit Chandra Das, 13, and Sadikur, 6, forever.

The families of two teenagers killed in Mohammadpur during a clash of Awami League factions ahead of the general election have been robbed of justice.

In an attempt to avoid arrest, Awami League leader and ward councillor Habibur Rahman Mizan tried to deceive Rab members during a drive in Sreemangal on Friday morning.