Md Abbas

Threat of eviction looms over 20 lakh residents of Kamrangirchar in the capital, as Dhaka South City Corporation has decided to build a commercial hub on 1,200 acres of land in the area.

“Fire! Fire!”

A phone call, followed by an everlasting silence.

Only 18 days separated Syed Mobarak Hossain from his dream of taking his family to Italy, where he worked. After years of struggle as a Bangladeshi expatriate, everything was finally falling into place:

“Where’s the emergency exit? where’s the emergency exit?” people were shouting all around.

'It's heartbreaking to see someone burning in front of you, and you can't do anything for them,' says Sheikh Rakib recounting horror

Recounts one survivor as others say the blaze-hit building has no emergency exit

For Syed Mobarak Hossain, everything was falling into place after years of struggle

Md Abdur Rasel, a medical representative at Reneta Limited, left his job after being lured to go to Portugal by an agent of Probashi Sheba Limited, a consulting firm based in Dhaka’s Gulshan.

For the last four months, Rafiqul Islam [a pseudonym to protect him from further consequences] has been stuck in an abandoned three-story building in Kuala Lumpur along with 149 others -- all without any work.

As the night gets deeper and Dhaka goes to sleep, one place pulsates with energy -- Karwan Bazar kitchen market.

Mohammad Shahid looked at the shopkeeper in Karwan Bazar in disbelief after hearing that a kg of onions was selling for Tk 120.

There was a time when universities used to hog newspaper headlines for all the right reasons – innovative research or accolades given for commendable academic work that would benefit the people of the country. However, when we look at our public universities today, most of the headlines they mak

For commuters like  Prajukta Roy Chowdhury, a final-year student at a private university, metro rail has been a game changer.

Day labourer Azizul Haque was upset to see the price of papaya when he went to do grocery shopping yesterday: it has doubled in a space of a few days.

It is peak harvest season, but the price of onion has soared by Tk 10 per kilogram at the capital’s kitchen markets over the last three days.

Dust swirls like a phantom fog through Dhaka’s Mohammadpur Beribadh and Dhaka Udyan. Unplanned construction works are a common sight on the roads, spewing debris and despair in equal measure.

What health risks are posed by these environmental conditions? And how are citizens coping with these challenges?

The price of rice has not gone down in Dhaka’s kitchen markets despite government warnings of legal action against traders.

Over 7,902 people were killed in 6,261 road accidents last year, said a Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity (BJKS) report released yesterday.