Shaheen Mollah

Prices of eggs, fish, and meat have increased in the capital’s kitchen markets, including Shewrapara, Kazipara, Ibrahimpur, Farmgate, and Karwan Bazar. Prices of most vegetables, on the other hand, remain unchanged.

A 56-year-old primary school headteacher from Bogura, who was in the capital for eye treatment, died after falling from a moving rickshaw when two muggers snatched her bag yesterday.

Bangladesh’s drug rehabilitation system is struggling to meet the needs of women and adolescents, with government centres offering limited capacity even as more women and children seek treatment.

On February 7, 2025, a group of men allegedly took over Md Shamim’s rickshaw garage in Kallyanpur, forcing out all 16 rickshaws kept there.

It was around 5:00pm on July 22. Seven to eight months pregnant, Parvin Akter, 20, sat near the Farmgate Metro Rail Station with three other women, lifting a polythene bag to her face every few seconds.

Hundreds of people gathered outside the July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum from morning as the former Gono Bhaban opened to the public for the first time yesterday.

Forty-five-year-old Nasima Begum, a cleaner, had just sat down for lunch at home during her break when word spread through the neighbourhood that a Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) truck had arrived. She left her food on the plate and went out.

45-year-old Nasima Begum was waiting in TCB line when the tragedy struck at Mirpur University College