Dhaka

Biman offers Baishakh discount on Dhaka to Barisal, Saidpur routes

Biman Bangladesh Airline offers special discounts on Dhaka-Barisal and Dhaka-Saidpur routes on the eve of Pahela Baishakh.
4 April 2016, 16:04 PM

Unapproved businesses must go from Dhaka residential areas

Unapproved institutions and commercial establishments must leave from the residential areas in Dhaka city within the next six months.
4 April 2016, 08:05 AM

Man held with 25 gold bars at Kamalapur station

Police arrest a man along with three kilogrammes of gold at Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka.
4 April 2016, 07:28 AM

Bridge sinks, Sylhet’s rail link with Dhaka, Ctg snapped

Rail communications of Sylhet with Dhaka and Chittagong remain suspended as a railway bridge in Moulvibazar goes under water due to overnight rain.
4 April 2016, 06:54 AM

Khaleda to sit with alliance chiefs to decide on UP polls

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will sit with the top leaders of 20-party alliance to decide whether it will participate in the Union Parishad elections.
4 April 2016, 06:10 AM

Grenades, arms, ammo found at Bogra blast site

A bomb disposal team recovers at least twenty grenades, firearms and ammunition from a building in Sherpur upazila of Bogra where two people were killed in a bomb explosion yesterday.
4 April 2016, 05:28 AM

Filmmaker Shahidul Islam Khokon passes away

Noted filmmaker Shahidul Islam Khokon dies at a hospital in Dhaka this morning due to a prolonged illness.
4 April 2016, 05:09 AM

Muezzin killed inside Old Dhaka mosque

Unknown assailants have stabbed dead a muezzin inside a mosque in Old Dhaka’s Islampur area. Police recovered the body from the stairs of the mosque. However, any motive behind the murder is yet to be ascertained.
4 April 2016, 04:42 AM

Missing Drik official found dead in Narayanganj

An official of Drik Picture Library Limited is found dead in Siddhirganj of Narayanganj hours after he went missing from Dhaka.
3 April 2016, 08:51 AM

Khaleda to surrender before court Apr 5, lawyer says

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will surrender before a Dhaka court and seek bail in a case filed for an arson attack on a passenger bus in the capital's Jatrabari in January last year.
3 April 2016, 07:01 AM

Cops foil Independence Day discussion where Fakhrul was made chief guest

Police foil an event of Agriculturists Association of Bangladesh where BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been made the chief guest.
2 April 2016, 14:23 PM

Rab man killed in Uttara road crash

A Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) member is killed in a road accident in Dhaka’s Uttara area.
2 April 2016, 05:45 AM

UP polls: 8 lives lost in violence

At least eight people are killed and many others injured in seven districts during violence in the second phase of union parishad elections.
31 March 2016, 07:05 AM

Chinese company gets $3.33b deal

China will construct a rail route between Dhaka and Jessore through the Padma bridge, cutting travel time significantly and boosting national and regional connectivity.
30 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Traffic terrible

Sonia Ahmed had had enough of city traffic yesterday after remaining stuck in a huge tailback near New Market for about one and a half hours.
30 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Protest continues demanding justice for Tonu

Students of different universities continue demonstration at different parts of Dhaka demanding justice for Comilla Victoria College student Sohagi Jahan Tonu.
30 March 2016, 08:58 AM

Fakhrul walks out of jail

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is freed on bail from prison hours after a Dhaka court sent him to prison in two arson cases.
30 March 2016, 07:21 AM

10 hurt as cops thwart Dhaka nurses’ demo, 7 held

At least 10 people injured as police use force to disperse a road blockade of unemployed nurses in Dhaka city’s key intersection Shahbagh.
30 March 2016, 07:14 AM

Programme, demo cripple Dhaka

Inaugural of the Mouchak-Moghbazar flyover and a road blockade enforced by nursing students at Shahbagh have led to traffic sufferings for the Dhaka dwellers.
30 March 2016, 06:51 AM

Fakhrul made BNP secy gen, Rizvi promoted

Six years after shouldering the responsibility of acting secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been made a full functioning secretary general of BNP. The party’s spokesperson makes the announcement at a press conference, 11 days after BNP held its long-awaited council.
30 March 2016, 05:39 AM