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July uprising victims: Families await closure as CID exhumes bodies

For the past year and a half, 60-year-old Rasheda Begum visited the Rayerbazar graveyard every Thursday. As she stood near the rows of unnamed graves, she prayed for the souls of the 114 unidentified victims of the July uprising.
7 December 2025, 18:36 PM
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Onion price jumps to Tk 160 a kg

Within three days, onion prices jumped by Tk 40 in the capital’s kitchen markets. As of yesterday, onions are being sold at Tk 140-160 per kg, up from Tk 110-120 previously.
5 December 2025, 18:30 PM
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NOVEMBER 25 BLAZE / A week on, Korail still struggling to recover

In a narrow lane of the Korail slum, Shafiqul Islam and Fatema Begum begin preparing tea before dawn.
2 December 2025, 18:00 PM
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‘Auto-rickshaw driver shot dead in drug feud’

The 26-year-old CNG-run autorickshaw driver who was shot dead in the capital’s Jurain area on Monday night was targeted by top drug dealers over previous enmity, police said.
2 December 2025, 18:00 PM
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Korail slum: Piecing back life after fire

As the afternoon sun beat down on the charred remains of Korail yesterday, one of Dhaka’s largest and most crowded slums, Shukur Ali sat quietly with his wife, children and grandson amid the dust and twisted iron sheets that once sheltered their home.
27 November 2025, 18:26 PM
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Of recurring fires and lost homes

Yesterday, around midnight, a 50-year-old day labourer stood near the fire-ravaged Korail slum, a single suitcase balanced on his head.
26 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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‘How many times can we start over?’ Ashes, debt, and fragile hope in Korail

Families who have already rebuilt their worlds twice now sift through the debris a third time
26 November 2025, 13:32 PM
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Amid fire, comes an unnamed hero

As a devastating fire swept through the capital’s Korail slum last night, 45-year-old Bokul Begum was trapped alone in her small room.
25 November 2025, 20:26 PM
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Conjoined twins abandoned

Conjoined twins with two heads, four hands and two feet were abandoned at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) early
15 October 2016, 18:00 PM
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Girl battling trauma, burn complications

Farzana Akter, who had survived a deadly blaze that killed eight of her family members in 2014, has been admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital with various ailments.
10 October 2016, 18:00 PM
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Dhaka Medical College Hospital: Outsiders often do some tasks meant for docs, nurses

More than 200 outsiders with no qualifications whatsoever provide various services to patients at Dhaka Medical College Hospital for money, sources said.
24 September 2016, 18:09 PM
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Outsider meddles with drug; DMCH patient dies

A patient died in Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday, after a non-professional person allegedly administered a drug into the
23 September 2016, 18:00 PM
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Reckless driving takes couple's lives in city

Seventy-year-old ABM Ataur Rahman and his wife were waiting on a footpath at the East Sheorapara bus stand in the capital to
15 September 2016, 18:00 PM
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A budding life cruelly cut short

Ramzan Hossain and Tania Hossain had dreamt of raising their eldest daughter to become a doctor one day and so left no stone unturned to ensure that the girl got good educational foundation.
29 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Two die in hit-and-run in Banani

A youth ran over and killed a bicycle rider with his car and killed another person trying to run from the scene at Banani in the capital yesterday morning.
20 August 2016, 18:00 PM

7-yr-old son shows signs of mental trauma

The seven-year-old boy who witnessed the brutal murder of his mother Mahmuda Khanam Mitu in Chittagong last month is now
15 July 2016, 18:00 PM
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Jailed 'militants' under watch

Convicted and suspected militants from different jails have been shifted to the central jails across the country as part of an intensified security measure.
12 July 2016, 18:00 PM
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Inpatients allege service delay at 3 public hospitals

Many of the inpatients in three public hospitals of the capital suffered amidst the absence of most of the doctors and
9 July 2016, 18:00 PM

Back from the jaws of death

It was a pleasant evening at the exquisitely decorated restaurant in Gulshan, with guests eating their favourite cuisine.
3 July 2016, 18:00 PM

Victim in jail, 'culprit' on bail

An alleged stalker and his mother tried to frame a family in an acid violence case for protesting the harassment of their college-going daughter at the capital's Lalbagh.
22 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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Slum fire devastates lives in capital

Nur Banu has been working tirelessly as a domestic help for the last one year saving up along with her street vendor husband
4 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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84-year-old saved by his daughter

A loud bang and shaking of ground woke her up around 1:30am on Friday at her fourth-floor apartment in the six-storey building in
19 March 2016, 18:00 PM
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Now squabbles over settlement money grips family

Some of the family members of four-year-old Jihad who died after falling into a deep well shaft on December 2014, in the capital's Shahjahanpur, are squabbling over the settlement money they had received and denying the agreement of withdrawing the case against the two accused.
13 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Unidentified bodies left at morgue for four months

Two unidentified non-Muslim corpses at Dhaka Medical College mortuary could not be handed over to any charity for their burial or cremation even after about four months due to the lack of non-Muslim charities.
11 February 2016, 20:43 PM
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Family on verge of starvation

Shomrat Shajahan Shaju, 30, is a rickshaw-puller who lives in Kalyanpur slum with his wife and two daughters came
10 February 2016, 18:00 PM
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Down in dumps

The day labourer had thought of spending the whole day yesterday with his youngest son as he took a day off. But he had no idea that it would be the last day of his son's life.
3 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Miracle boy suffers minor head injury, leg fracture

Miracle boy turns three-day-old today.
2 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Heartbreaking reunion

Last time Munni's parents saw her, she was only nine-years old.
25 January 2016, 18:00 PM

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