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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
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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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Deafening silence

"When I felt bad, I would hum songs. Sonali was small then, a primary school girl, and she would repeat my songs," said her father Zakir Hossain, a house painter.
17 January 2016, 18:00 PM
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DMCH limps

Two CT scanners of Dhaka Medical College Hospital are out of order, causing serious disruption to patient services.
18 December 2015, 18:00 PM
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Victim gets Tk 15,000

Fareez Rahman, the underage driver who hit two rickshaws with an SUV leaving four people hurt on October 12, has paid Tk 15,000 to
16 October 2015, 18:00 PM
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Doctor with a difference

About 10 patients were still in the queue, each screaming for emergency care as the clock struck 12:30am on Saturday at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.
27 September 2015, 18:00 PM

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