Gazipur City Polls: Zahangir dead set on getting mother elected
Despite the ruling Awami League’s repeated warning of taking stern action against him, suspended Gazipur city mayor Zahangir Alam is adamant to back his mother in the mayoral race.
1y ago
Gazipur City Polls: AL nominee’s success rests on Zahangir
Suspended Gazipur mayor Zahangir Alam’s decision on participating the May 25 city polls may become the determining factor in the success of Awami League mayoral nominee Azmat Ullah Khan, say local leaders of the ruling party.
1y ago
GCC ex-mayor embezzled Tk 2.6cr from GCC coffer
Suspended Gazipur mayor Jahangir Alam embezzled Tk 2.6 crore of city corporation money using a fake city corporation bank account.
1y ago
It’s unlawful, a violation of human rights
The incident where an accused BNP leader was seen cuffed and fettered during his mother’s namaz-e-janaza in Gazipur has touched off outrage among rights activists and citizens.
1y ago
Jahangir ‘spent on’ events that never happened
Suspended Gazipur City Corporation Mayor Mohammad Jahangir Alam may have pocketed at least Tk 1.57 crore from the city corporation fund in the pretext of celebrating Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary in 2020, according to an internal investigation by the city authorities.
2y ago
Gazipur road widening: Compensation unpaid, yet work resumes
The Gazipur City Corporation has resumed widening streets and construction of drains and footpaths without compensating those who lost land for the development work.
2y ago
26 cases against a retired teacher
Twenty-six cases of extortion, vandalism, cheque forgery and looting.
2y ago
Rise meteoric, fall too
He became the vice chairman of an upazila parishad, general secretary of Gazipur city Awami League, and mayor of Gazipur -- all before he was 40.
3y ago
March 16, 2020
No child left behind
In an open field adjacent to Gazipur’s Sal forest, groups of children, aged between four and 14, sit on floor mats doing their school lesson, while their teachers walk around, helping them out.
March 8, 2020
Free rides to hospital
Go to the CNG-run autorickshaw stand in Gazipur’s Board Bazar area, you can’t miss a three-wheeler with stickers on its front, back, sides and roof, reading “free for the poor, helpless and the physically-challenged”.
February 16, 2020
Tulips bloom for the first time in Bangladesh
A little piece of cropland in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur is now abuzz with local visitors after a couple in the area managed to harvest a full bloom of tulips, a plant that has grown for the first time in Bangladesh.
December 17, 2019
Trapped in flames; help never came
“We are trapped by the flames. We can’t go downstairs. Please help!” These were the words of Uttam Kumar Das as he called his cousin Ranajit after the fire broke out at an electric fan factory in Gazipur Sunday afternoon.
September 22, 2019
The success story of Jharna
Jharna Begum, who once sold clothes from door to door while covering her face to evade creditors, is now the centre of a tale of success that even intrigued the queen of the Netherlands.
June 9, 2019
An effort to reduce train accidents
Around 10am on a busy weekday, Joydevpur Railway Station was teeming with travellers eagerly waiting for their trains.
November 23, 2018
Living by making fishing rod
More than 50 families at Daleshahore village in Sreepur upazila earn their livelihood by making and selling bamboo-made fishing rods.
July 20, 2018
Humayun Ahmed's 6th death anniversary observed
Yesterday, on the occasion of beloved writer-director Humayun Ahmed's sixth death anniversary, his wife Meher Afroz Shaon, sons Ninit and Nishad, and father-in-law Mohammad Ali remembered the writer in Nuhash Polli, Gazipur, where he was buried.
June 3, 2018
Illegal parking chokes Dhaka-M'singh highway
Traffic jam has been an everyday phenomenon on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway as significant portions on both sides of the road at Chandna crossing in Gazipur remain occupied due to illegal parking of trucks and covered vans.
December 22, 2017
Teaching from the heart
When her husband died twelve years ago, it took quite a toll on Minara Begum, now 55, from Kornapur Crossing area of Gazipur's Sreepur upazila.
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