Price hike of essentials: Poor, middle class in a tight corner
Harunur Rashid, a retired government employee, was taken aback by the steep price rise of okra at the capital’s Karwan Bazar yesterday.
11 October 2024, 18:07 PM
Many injured staring at bleak future
People are filled with hope for a better tomorrow with incoming reforms, but that is not the case for those who sacrificed their future for the fall of the Awami League regime.
4 October 2024, 18:04 PM
Prices of egg, veggies go up
The prices of vegetables, chicken, and eggs have risen again in the capital’s kitchen markets after remaining almost stable for about a month.
27 September 2024, 18:02 PM
Anti-discrimination student movement: Citizens’ platform launched to help achieve goals
A 55-member Jatiya Nagorik Committee was formed yesterday to work towards fulfilling the goals of the Anti-discrimination Student Movement that toppled the Awami League-led government.
8 September 2024, 21:00 PM
Vacuum looms as teachers being coerced to quit
MA Malek, principal of Munshirhat College in Chandpur’s Matlab upazila, was on leave when he heard students were demonstrating for his resignation.
31 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Relief delivery is now the challenge
People wishing to distribute relief materials among the flood victims are finding it very difficult to reach remote areas due to a lack of boats.
26 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Flash floods: ‘We had no clue what was coming’
When Tuhin Rana heard last week that his remote village in Noakhali was being flooded, he called his parents and wife who just gave birth to a daughter and told them to stay safe.
25 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Millions cut off without food, power
Millions of people were still left without electricity and any means of communication, and relief materials had not reached many remote areas where families were stranded in flooded villages for days.
24 August 2024, 18:00 PM
‘It felt like living in a grave’
Mikel Changma, a political organiser of the United Peoples’ Democratic Front (UPDF), could not see daylight for about five years after being picked up by some plainclothes men April 9, 2019.
20 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Some relief in kitchen markets
Prices of daily essentials, aside from onions, have started falling in the capital’s kitchen markets over the last three days due to an increase in supply.
9 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Scenes from Shaheed Minar
Students from different public and private universities, colleges, and schools, started arriving in large processions to join the demonstration at Shaheed Minar.
3 August 2024, 14:14 PM
'Police killed my brother. Should we go to them for justice?'
Asks sister of 19-year-old Soikot who was shot in Mohammadpur
2 August 2024, 17:52 PM
Why isn’t father calling me?
4-year-old daughter of Priyo, who was shot dead on July 19, keeps asking
30 July 2024, 18:00 PM
Protest coordinators: Detention by DB unconstitutional
The Detective Branch’s picking up of key coordinators of the quota reform protest “for the sake of security” is unconstitutional, said two legal experts and an academician.
28 July 2024, 21:30 PM
Farhan Faiyaaz: A life we will remember
"One day, you'll leave this world behind. So live a life you will remember." -- Farhan Faiyaaz's Facebook profile bio..In a chilling video footage that went viral on Facebook on Thursday, a woman was seen breaking down at the sight of a body in Mohammadpur’s City Hospital
23 July 2024, 20:34 PM
Parts of Dhaka left charred
The six burnt cars that lie at the entrance to the Department of Disaster Management at Mohakhali can hardly give a sense of the scale of destruction inside the 11-storey building.
22 July 2024, 18:00 PM
Prepaid gas, electricity: Users suffer amid internet outage
Thousands of consumers across the nation are facing immense difficulties in getting their cards for prepaid electricity and gas meters recharged amid the ongoing internet outage and the curfew.
21 July 2024, 18:00 PM
DMCH morgue never been thicker with grief
The air at Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue was never this thick with grief before yesterday.
20 July 2024, 18:00 PM
A life we will remember
“One day, you’ll leave this world behind. So live a life you will remember.” -- Farhan Faiyaaz’s Facebook profile bio.
18 July 2024, 18:00 PM
BCL leaders beaten up, forced out of most DU halls overnight
Students make hall provosts sign notices banning politics in the halls
17 July 2024, 08:32 AM