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Eid joy turns into never-ending grief

11 March 2026, 00:00 AM
Rakib Hasan, a member of the Bangladesh Air Force, spoke to his father Zakir Hossain over the phone on Monday morning.
11 March 2026, 00:00 AM
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Family Card brings hope to families in slums

9 March 2026, 02:15 AM
Hasen Banu is over 80. In the Korail slum, where her three sons and a daughter also live, she now spends a month at each child’s home.
9 March 2026, 02:15 AM
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Firewood market heats up as LPG costs stay high

7 March 2026, 02:56 AM
Narvin Begum, a day labourer supporting a four-member family, uses LPG for quick morning cooking and firewood for other meals.
7 March 2026, 02:56 AM
Biman Bangladesh Airlines bans suit hangers on gulf routes

Anxiety grips migrants as Gulf flights stay halted

4 March 2026, 02:16 AM
With one day left before his visa expired, Mohammad Julhas, 28, could not afford another cancellation.
4 March 2026, 02:16 AM
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Flights scrapped, visa clock ticking

3 March 2026, 02:24 AM
Mohammad Obaidullah thought he was finally heading back to work in Dammam after two failed attempts. The 38-year-old, from Cumilla’s Muradnagar, had boarded a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight on February 28.
3 March 2026, 02:24 AM
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Migrant workers in limbo as flights to Middle East uncertain

2 March 2026, 02:15 AM
Flights to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, and Doha remained suspended, with airport officials reporting around 90 cancellations from Dhaka and Chattogram since Saturday.
2 March 2026, 02:15 AM
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Chaos at Dhaka airport as flights to Middle East halted

1 March 2026, 02:37 AM
Flights from Bangladesh to several Middle Eastern destinations have remained suspended since yesterday afternoon as some countries in the region temporarily closed their airspace due to US and Israel’s strikes on Iran and Tehran’s retaliation.
1 March 2026, 02:37 AM
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Flights disrupted as Middle East war grounds passengers at Dhaka airport

28 February 2026, 22:22 PM
Passengers told to leave contacts and await updates from airlines
28 February 2026, 22:22 PM
Attack on Khaleda at Karwan Bazar

Probe fails to find AL men!

The police probe into the 2015 attack on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's motorcade in the city's Karwan Bazar has failed to identify any of the attackers though photographs of many of them were published in the media. The BNP chief's convoy came under attack during a campaign for city corporation election in April. Two and a half years later, her motorcade was attacked twice within only four days this week in Feni.
1 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Six doctors for prisoners

Six doctors for 70,000 inmates

If you are poor and in jail for some reason and you happen to be seriously ill, you are probably out of luck. But if you are a rich inmate or have political clout, you do not even need to be sick to have extended holidays at the country's leading government hospitals.
25 October 2017, 18:00 PM
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Blue Whale Challenge: Simply a sick online game

With many parents oblivious, an online game has literally been taking the lives of teenagers across the world for the last few years and the game has reached Bangladesh.
10 October 2017, 18:00 PM
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Muskan hopes for cure

Sitting on a tiny bed on the sixth-floor of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), tiny Muskan hopes of one thing only -- to go
5 October 2017, 18:00 PM
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Lukewarm response to nurses' new uniforms

The government decision to change the nurses' uniform is being implemented slowly as the majority of the health care providers are reluctant to take up their new attire.
10 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Surgery patients overrun Nitor

Patients had to queue up and wait long hours to undergo surgery at the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic
4 September 2017, 18:00 PM
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Govt Hospitals on Eid Holidays: Many patients released

Eight-year-old Hridoy had a surgery at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital two weeks ago after he had suffered severe injuries to his abdomen while swimming in the Gournadi, Barisal.
30 August 2017, 18:00 PM

The long wait...

Five-year-old Mahin was over the moon as he would celebrate the festivities of Eid with both his parents this year.
29 August 2017, 18:00 PM
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Teen gangs violent again

Remember schoolboy Adnan Kabir?
27 August 2017, 18:00 PM
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Hoping for the best

Watching a baby crawl across the floor is probably the best sight to behold for parents. But Shahida and Raju Mia, a couple from Gaibandha, are deprived of it, as Shahida last year gave birth to conjoined twins, who could hardly move as per their wish let alone crawl on the floor.
30 July 2017, 18:00 PM
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Too much to bear

Every time he left Dhaka Shishu Hospital, his parents would have a feeling that their son recovered completely.
17 July 2017, 18:00 PM

Uncertainty grips victim family

Three members of a family, who were critically burned in a gas line explosion in the capital's Gendaria on July 5, are fighting for their
11 July 2017, 18:00 PM
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Moni waits for miracle

Her parents had been waiting for their 12-year old daughter's death.
11 July 2017, 18:00 PM
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KORAIL SLUM: Goons eating up public resources

At least 20 syndicates are making a fortune by providing gas, power and water illegally to people living in the capital's biggest slum, Korail Bosti. They get an estimated Tk 1.5 crore per month from slum dwellers and a major portion of the money is spent to “manage” the local police station and a section of employees of the three utility service providers.
9 July 2017, 18:00 PM
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DESIGNED for DISASTER

Illegal gas lines, all faulty and risky, pose a grave danger to one lakh people living in Korail Bosti, a slum built on 90 acres of government land in the capital's Mohakhali.
9 July 2017, 18:00 PM
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Doctors bent on full cure of 'tree man'

The medical team treating Bangladesh's first "tree man" Abul Bajandar has performed the 23rd surgery on him as warts partially regrew on his left hand.
7 July 2017, 18:00 PM
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Ahead it's all dark

The sole bread earner of an eleven-member family, Gias Uddin, a boiler mechanic at Multi-Fabs Dyeing Ltd in Gazipur, has been put in
4 July 2017, 18:00 PM
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Unclaimed bodies rotting at DMC

Thirty-three unclaimed bodies have been decomposing at Dhaka Medical College mortuary, releasing an unbearable stench as the only graveyard in Jurain designated for burying such bodies is inundated with rain water.
3 July 2017, 18:00 PM

Tourist cop held after beating wife on street

A tourist police constable beat his wife in broad daylight on the streets in the capital's Green Road on Saturday. As the woman screamed for help, the constable told onlookers that she was mad.
2 July 2017, 18:00 PM
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Patients suffer due to shortage of doctors, nurses during Eid holidays

It was around 11:00am on Eid-day. Mohammad Saiful Islam was frantically looking for a doctor at the child medicine ward of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) as the time for medication of his two-year-old son had been over some two hours back.
28 June 2017, 18:00 PM

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