Narayanganj

Feeling adventurous? Explore the beauty of Shapla Beels — Your Instagram will thank you!

Seeking a break from the mundane routine or simply craving a treat for your eyes? Now is the perfect time to visit your nearest shapla beel. Around this time of the year, the water lilies or shapla bloom beautifully across ponds, lakes, and other water bodies. While they can be seen across many places in the country, some spots stand out for their unmatched beauty.

Nachiketa on visiting Bangladesh amid curfew

Bangladesh recently witnessed a significant level of unrest due to the consequences of violent clashes which followed the quota reform movement. Over the past week, violence erupted across the country, especially turning the capital city into a battlefield. However, the situation is now being strictly monitored with the enforcement of curfews.

A ray of hope for cancer patients

Kumudini Welfare Trust, one of the country’s biggest charitable organisations dedicatedly working for medical services, is now going to set up a hospital in Narayanganj with a special focus on cancer treatment.

4 suspected robbers beaten to death

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.

4 suspected robbers killed in 'mob beating' in Narayanganj

Four suspected robbers were killed and another was injured in a mob beating in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj early today, police said

Halls in Narayanganj experience new life

Marking Eid-ul-Fitr, three halls in Narayanganj have been reopened on April 22. New Metro Cinema Hall, located in Khanpur, Narayanganj have premiered Shakib Khan and Shobnom Bubly starrer "Leader: Amie Bangladesh".

Top 7 travel destinations in Narayanganj

Narayanganj, located on the banks of the Shitalakshya River and the outskirts of Dhaka, has many picturesque travel destinations that will make your weekend getaway special. To help you have an amazing time and a relaxing vacation, we bring you the top 7 tourist spots to visit in Narayanganj.

Buet student Fardin was murdered: Doctors after autopsy

Buet student Fardin Noor Parash, whose body was recovered from Shitalakkhya river near Narayanganj's Siddhirganj yesterday afternoon, was murdered.

N’ganj girl’s disappearance: SI closed for ‘torturing’ accused

Sub-inspector (SI) Shamim Al Mamun -- the investigation officer (IO) of the abduction case of a girl who was thought to have been raped and murdered before being found alive 51 days after her disappearance from Narayanganj’s Bandar upazila -- has been closed in the wake of allegations that he tortured the accused in remand and forced them to give a confessional statement in court.

May 24, 2016
May 24, 2016

Pressure piles up on Salim Osman

Controversial Jatiya Party lawmaker AKM Salim Osman, now under pressure from the Awami League as well as his own party, last night cancelled his press conference scheduled for today.

May 23, 2016
May 23, 2016

N’ganj teacher humiliation: Demand for arrest of Salim Osman

People from cross sections of life demands the immediate arrest of Narayanganj lawmaker Salim Osman for humiliating a school headmaster.

May 22, 2016
May 22, 2016

Salim Osman won’t attend JS if he has any self-respect: Nasim

Health Minister Mohammad Nasim says Jatiya Party lawmaker Salim Osman will refrain from joining the parliament sessions “if he has any self-respect”.

May 22, 2016
May 22, 2016

Teacher beaten for ‘harassing’ student

Locals beat up a teacher and handed him over to the police after he allegedly harassed a girl of class-IX at a school in Narayanganj

May 21, 2016
May 21, 2016

Muezzin ‘kills’ minor girl in N’ganj

Law enforcers arrest a muezzin in Narayanganj on charge of killing a minor girl.

May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016

N’ganj headmaster taken to Dhaka Medical

Narayanganj school headmaster Shyamal Kanti Bhakta, who was in attention for the last few days over an incident of humiliation by a local lawmaker, is moved to Dhaka for better treatments.

May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016

Injustice done to him

An education ministry probe committee found no evidence that Shyamal Kanti Bhakta had hurt anyone's religious sentiment though, on this allegation, the Narayanganj headmaster was publicly humiliated on a local lawmaker's instruction.

May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016

‘I was humiliated by a lawmaker’

Six days after his humiliation by a mob, Shyamal Kanti Bhakta is reinstated as the headmaster of a Narayanganj school.

May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016

Humiliating teacher: MP Salim Osman won’t apologise

Local lawmaker from Jatiya Party, AKM Salim Osman, says he will not apologise for forcing a high school headmaster to squat holding his ears in public.

May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016

N’ganj teacher wants justice

Shyamal Kanti Bhakta, the school headmaster of Narayanganj, wants justice for his humiliation over the allegation of his disparaging statements about religion.