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
September 10, 2017
Families kept in wait, still
For the last one year, all the five women had was hope.
July 23, 2017
An accident shrouded in mystery
The death of a waste garment trader, Jakir Hossain, 42 in Gazipur, in an apparent road accident is shrouded in mystery. The Tk 27 lakh that he had been carrying with him disappeared.
July 17, 2017
Compositions of a carpenter
Nazrul Islam is a true artist masquerading as a professional carpenter. The man full of humour can't tell you his actual age. With a shy
July 5, 2017
Ahead it's all dark
The sole bread earner of an eleven-member family, Gias Uddin, a boiler mechanic at Multi-Fabs Dyeing Ltd in Gazipur, has been put in
July 2, 2016
Gazipur handmade puffed rice makers struggling
A good number of people at Barotopa village in Sreepur of Gazipur are now passing busy time producing muri (puffed rice) in a
June 28, 2016
Dilapidated Gazipur road's state worsens
If you go to Joina Bazar in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur presently, your journey may turn into a nightmare. If you get on a motor vehicle,
January 10, 2016
Akheri Munajat today
The first phase of three-day Biswa Ijtema, the second largest Muslim congregation after the Hajj, ends today with the Akheri Munajat seeking spiritual well-being and welfare of the Muslim Ummah.
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