Shaheen Mollah

City chokes as protests wreak havoc

Ninety-six-year-old Nurjahan Begum left her home in Old Dhaka’s Mogholtuli for her daughter’s house in Banasree around 2:00pm yesterday.

18h ago

TCB resumes sale amid price hike, low turnout

Under this mobile "Truck Sale" initiative, TCB is selling edible oil, sugar, and lentils at subsidised rates. The prices are set at Tk 135 per litre for cooking oil, Tk 85 per kg for sugar, and Tk 80 per kg for lentils

20h ago

Over 48,400 arrested in one month

Police have arrested over 48,400 people across the country over the last one month, according to data from the Police Headquarters.

3d ago

Five-year-old girl strangled to death in city

On Monday afternoon, five-year-old Roza Moni got hungry while playing in front of her house in Tejgaon’s Tejkunipara. She went to her mother and asked for lunch, but the meal was not ready yet.

1w ago

Shraban murder case: Three witnesses named without their consent

Three individuals named as witnesses in the case filed over the killing of Mahfuz Alam Shraban during last year’s mass uprising said they were unaware of being listed as witnesses.

3w ago

Family faces double blow

After the killing of her husband, the sole breadwinner of the family, in last year’s uprising, the woman pinned her hopes on the eldest daughter. The girl’s death, reportedly by suicide following the trauma of being gang-raped, shattered the mother’s new dreams.  

3w ago

Over 12,700 arrested in eight days

Police have arrested more than 12,700 people across the country over the past eight days.

3w ago

Why veggies cost less at Karwan Bazar

Every other day, businessman Babul Miah boards a crowded bus from West Shewrapara and heads to Karwan Bazar to buy vegetables for his family..“It’s not convenient to carry seven or eight kilogrammes of vegetables back home by bus,” he said..“But I do it out of necessity. My business

3w ago
May 23, 2025
May 23, 2025

City chokes as protests wreak havoc

Ninety-six-year-old Nurjahan Begum left her home in Old Dhaka’s Mogholtuli for her daughter’s house in Banasree around 2:00pm yesterday.

May 22, 2025
May 22, 2025

TCB resumes sale amid price hike, low turnout

Under this mobile "Truck Sale" initiative, TCB is selling edible oil, sugar, and lentils at subsidised rates. The prices are set at Tk 135 per litre for cooking oil, Tk 85 per kg for sugar, and Tk 80 per kg for lentils

May 20, 2025
May 20, 2025

Over 48,400 arrested in one month

Police have arrested over 48,400 people across the country over the last one month, according to data from the Police Headquarters.

May 14, 2025
May 14, 2025

Five-year-old girl strangled to death in city

On Monday afternoon, five-year-old Roza Moni got hungry while playing in front of her house in Tejgaon’s Tejkunipara. She went to her mother and asked for lunch, but the meal was not ready yet.

April 29, 2025
April 29, 2025

Shraban murder case: Three witnesses named without their consent

Three individuals named as witnesses in the case filed over the killing of Mahfuz Alam Shraban during last year’s mass uprising said they were unaware of being listed as witnesses.

April 28, 2025
April 28, 2025

Family faces double blow

After the killing of her husband, the sole breadwinner of the family, in last year’s uprising, the woman pinned her hopes on the eldest daughter. The girl’s death, reportedly by suicide following the trauma of being gang-raped, shattered the mother’s new dreams.  

April 27, 2025
April 27, 2025

Over 12,700 arrested in eight days

Police have arrested more than 12,700 people across the country over the past eight days.

April 26, 2025
April 26, 2025

Why veggies cost less at Karwan Bazar

Every other day, businessman Babul Miah boards a crowded bus from West Shewrapara and heads to Karwan Bazar to buy vegetables for his family..“It’s not convenient to carry seven or eight kilogrammes of vegetables back home by bus,” he said..“But I do it out of necessity. My business

April 17, 2025
April 17, 2025

Killing of Swarna Das: 7 months on, fear still lingers at Lalarchak border

For the past seven months, farmers in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar have stayed away from their land near the Lalarchak border, fearing attacks allegedly by India’s Border Security Force (BSF).

April 14, 2025
April 14, 2025

BGB stands with Swarna’s family on Pahela Baishakh

Earlier on September 3 last year, the 16-year-old girl was gunned down allegedly by the members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar