Two people including owner of the house in Dhaka’s Darus Salam area, where remains of seven people were found yesterday, are arrested for their alleged involvement in militancy.

As Thursday was the last workday for employees and officials of government, semi-government and private offices before the Eid-ul-Azha, city dwellers started leaving for their respective village homes in their thousands to celebrate the festival with their near and dear ones.

A construction worker dies after falling from a nine-storey building in Dhaka’s Malibagh area.

Moderate rain once again inundates many parts of the major roads in Dhaka causing severe traffic congestion.

The most terrible aspect of living in Dhaka is going from one place to another on time. The Star Live team explores the scenario of public buses in Dhaka. Watch the first of a six part episode of Dhaka’s bus menace.

The village of Khidramatia in Belkuchi upazila, once a vibrant community with around 200 homes, now stands utterly deserted. Rising

Members of Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s traffic department today destroyed 10,000 hydraulic horns at Minto Road of the capital.

Saying he would look for a job, Saiful Islam of Noyakathi village in Khulna's Dumuria upazila went to Dhaka just a week ago. But his

Rapid Action Battalion claims to have detained two persons for their alleged involvement in fraudulent activities from Dhaka and Gopalganj.

Unidentified miscreants stab a youth to death in Mohammadpur area of Dhaka.

Customs officials in separate drives recover 31 kilogrammes of gold at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

Doctors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital claim to have found a minor injury mark in head and throat of the housemaid who mysteriously died in Banasree area of Dhaka yesterday.

Dhaka is a paradox. The more we build assuming we are “developing,” the more we dig ourselves into an urban mess: Transportation is a chaos. Travelling is a nightmare. Khals vanish, and roads turn to khals. Public space is non-existent. Housing is in disarray.

A feeling of dread grips Masud Rana whenever he sees black clouds in Dhaka sky these days. The reason is obvious. A little rain means the same old story of misery, and it's hard to find a city dweller who doesn't share his fright. Streets, lanes and by-lanes get submerged, public transports thin out and traffic stands still even after a moderate rainfall.

The storm-water drainage system of Dhaka is in a shambles and the capital’s residents are reminded of that yet again after one and a half hours rain inundated many busy thoroughfares.

​Firefighters douse a fire that broke out at a jhut (scrap fabrics from garment factories) godown at Diyabari Beribadh in Dhaka’s Mirpur.

As the monsoon month Ashar comes to an end, Dhaka dwellers wake up to waterlogged roads, after the capital sees a record 103mm rain in the last 24hrs till 9:00am.

A police constable and his daughter die after a bus hit them in Demra area in Dhaka this evening.

Waterlogging in Dhaka has become a common problem during monsoon. Rainwater is carried through natural canals and large concrete pipes to flood plains and rivers, but as most of the canals have been grabbed by the encroachers or clogged with solid wastes, the city streets are submerged even after a little rain.

Probe did not find any major fault of the policemen at Banani police in connection to recording case of the twin rape incident, Dhaka’s police chief has said.