Dhaka

Schoolteacher gets life for raping 5-yr-old student

A Dhaka court sentences a schoolteacher to life term imprisonment for raping his five-year-old student in March last year.
26 May 2015, 08:30 AM

Nor’wester lashes Dhaka, 4 dists

Nor'wester lashes Dhaka and four other districts.
26 May 2015, 06:37 AM

22 ‘robbers’ held in Dhaka

Police in separate drives arrest 22 robbers from different parts in Dhaka.
26 May 2015, 05:37 AM

Man stabs cousin to death in Dhaka

A man allegedly stab dead his cousin in Sutrapur of Old Dhaka.
26 May 2015, 05:25 AM

6 including 5 prisoners killed in Gazipur road crash

Six people including five prisoners die as two human hauliers collide head-on in Gazipur.
25 May 2015, 10:58 AM

Gang-rape of Garo woman pre-planned: Police

Law enforcers are suspecting that the recent gang-rape of a Garo woman in the capital was pre-planned.
25 May 2015, 09:51 AM

Living in slum: Where money can’t get you enough drinking water

Bhashantek slum residents are being deprived of the facilities as well as their fundamental rights, despite paying five times higher than the other Dhaka city dwellers pay for getting minimum facilities of sanitation and waste management.
25 May 2015, 09:43 AM

Technical glitch curbs DSE trading again

Trading at the country's premier bourse Dhaka Stock Exchange was again hit by the technical glitch.
25 May 2015, 06:12 AM

2 'Islamic State men' held in Dhaka

The Detective Branch of police detain two suspected members of the Islamic State (IS) from Dhaka. One of them is said to be a local recruiter who already gathered about 20 activists including an teacher.
25 May 2015, 04:49 AM

Fire at Panthapath furniture warehouse

A fire breaks out at a warehouse of a furniture market in the Dhaka's Panthapath.
24 May 2015, 09:17 AM

Appeal orders on bar council poll freeze May 28

The apex court sets May 28 to deliver verdicts of three appeals filed challenging the High Court freeze on Bangladesh Bar Council elections.
24 May 2015, 08:09 AM

DSE trading resumes after 4hrs

Trading at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) resumes after four hours of suspension following a technical glitch.
24 May 2015, 06:33 AM

Latif Siddique denied bail

A Dhaka rejects bail petitions of former minister Abdul Latif Siddique in seven cases filed against him for hurting people’s religious sentiment.
24 May 2015, 06:23 AM

Another war crimes suspect held in Maheshkhali

Another war crimes suspect is arrested from Maheshkhali upazila of Cox’s Bazar early today, three days after a tribunal in Dhaka issued arrest warrant against him and 15 others.
24 May 2015, 05:01 AM

Doctors confirm gang rape of Garo girl

Doctors at forensic department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital confirm that the 21-year-old indigenous girl was gang-raped at Kuril Bus Stand in Dhaka Thursday night.
23 May 2015, 07:14 AM

Airport road gridlocked following transport workers’ blockade

A huge traffic congestion takes place as transport workers block Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Banani of Dhaka.
22 May 2015, 18:45 PM

Rain in the north, heat elsewhere

Mixed weather pattern is prevailing through Bangladesh this summer with rain cooling life back to tugging quilts in the north and baking everyone under heat elsewhere.
21 May 2015, 08:05 AM

3 war crimes suspects held in Cox’s Bazar

Police arrest three war crimes suspects in Cox's Bazar hours after a tribunal ordered their arrest.
21 May 2015, 07:28 AM

‘JMB wants to wage jihad in India’

Accused in Burdwan blasts tells interrogators that JMB had plans to target West Bengal, Assam.
21 May 2015, 06:15 AM

Derailment halts Ctg rail link for 5hrs

Chittagong's rail link with rest of the country remains snapped for over five hours after a Dhaka-bound train derailed in Akhaura railway station in Brahmanbaria.
21 May 2015, 05:43 AM