Three years after the seven-murder incident in Narayanganj, a lower court sentenced 26 people, including a former city councillor and three former Rab officials, to death. The following year, the High Court upheld the death penalty for 15 of them and commuted the sentences for the rest.
AKM Shamim Osman had turned this traditional commercial hub just outside Dhaka into a lawless city with his reign of terror
Barely six months after repairs at a cost of Tk 54 crore, the 11-kilometre Modonpur-Modonganj road in Narayanganj has become dilapidated yet again.
Exactly 12 years have passed since the killing of Tanwir Muhammad Taqi in Narayanganj, yet justice remains elusive, as the investigating body, Rab, has yet to submit the charge sheet to the court.
Matin Khan, 50, a resident of Narayanganj city, has been suffering from a liver complication and wants to travel to India for treatment.
Jakir Hossain, 56, from Sabdi village in Narayanganj’s Bandar upazila, transitioned from a vegetable retailer to a florist nearly two decades ago. Today, he is one of the district’s leading florists, cultivating flowers year-round on 270 decimals of land across Bandar and Sonargaon upazilas.
On a cold winter night, Md Nasir, a resident of Ekrampur, found himself desperately looking for a boat at the wharf. The clock had just struck midnight and no boats were in sigh.
Whenever Amena Begum gets a call from an unknown number, she hopes it would be about her son or younger brother, both of whom went missing when a tyre factory in Narayanganj went up in flames on August 25.
Building declared unsafe, search for those missing continues
Abul Hossain Sajan, 20, had just regained consciousness lying in the Intensive Care Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital after a seven-hour-long surgery at 3:00am on August 6.
20-year-old Sumaiya dies after being shot; family believes it came from a helicopter
Jhunu Begum says at Narayanganj court premises
Sheikh Russel Park stands as a lush green oasis, providing much-needed respite to residents of the densely populated Narayanganj city.
The day of March 23, 2022 often returns in the form of nightmares to torment Sheikh Farid, a steel re-rolling mill worker. On this date he lost three of his fingers while working at the mill.
Workers compelled to work in unsafe conditions with low wages
Even after a decade into the sensational seven-murder in Narayanganj, the families of the victims continue to wait for justice, as the case trial drags on.
Villagers beat four people to death and severely injured another one in Narayanganj’s Sonargaon upazila on Sunday night on suspicion that they were robbers.
Environmental activists and Narayanganj city dwellers are concerned as the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority has been felling dozens of mature trees on the bank of Shitalakkhya river for a development project.
