15-minute-long battle against smoke, fire, fear
When a fire broke out at the Arian Fashion garment factory in the capital’s Rupnagar area on Tuesday morning, four people, including 15-year-old Mohammad Hossain, were trapped on the third floor.
15 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Little is done despite repeated tragedies
Experts say little has changed since the deadly Churihatta and Nimtali fires years ago
15 October 2025, 09:23 AM
‘We‘re trapped, we can’t get out’
When the fire broke out at the Arian Fashion factory yesterday morning, 18-year-old Marzia Sultana Alo’s father called her.
14 October 2025, 22:00 PM
‘The factory is on fire. We’re trapped. Can’t get out’
Alo's last call to her father before phone went dead
14 October 2025, 16:26 PM
Little headway made in stolen arms recovery
Since the rewards declaration, only 25 firearms and 190 rounds of ammunition were recovered
30 September 2025, 19:46 PM
Smuggling along the Bay: Rice goes out, yaba comes in
Essential goods like rice, fertiliser, and medicines are being quietly smuggled into Myanmar by a syndicate working with the Arakan Army (AA). In return, yaba, crystal meth, and other narcotics pour into Bangladesh, according to BGB and home ministry sources.
25 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Justice eludes women, children as trials drag on
Experts warn delays are letting offenders walk free
25 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Barishal BSCIC estate limping amid gas, infrastructure crises
Investors look beyond Barishal due to poor business climate, infrastructure
15 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Shopping Malls: Big 2 won’t open, some in dilemma
Some of the capital’s largest shopping malls have decided not to reopen on May 10 when the coronavirus restrictions will be relaxed.
6 May 2020, 18:00 PM
17 ‘JMB men’ held in capital
The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of police claimed to have arrested 17 members of JMB from the capital’s Kakrail area, who were planning to join a so-called jihad after migrating into Saudi Arabia.
5 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Relief for dressmakers as shops set to open before Eid
Much has been written about the garment sector’s export orders hitting a brick wall for the global coronavirus pandemic.
4 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Stung by Covid-19: Police struggle to enforce curbs
While the government has extended the ongoing shutdown to May 16 to ensure social distancing, many continue to crowd roads amid the growing number of Covid-19 cases in the country.
4 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Construction workers: As informal as ignored
Though the ongoing shutdown has put informal workers in the construction sector in a tight spot as they are largely dependent on daily wages, the ministry concerned has failed to act promptly to address their hardships.
26 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Daily essentials get pricier
Soaring prices of essentials in Ramadan have become a major burden at a time when hundreds of thousands of people are struggling with reduced income due to the coronavirus restrictions.
24 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Covid-19 taking a toll on cops
A total of 218 policemen tested Covid-19 positive as of yesterday while 652 others of the force are in quarantine, says the Police Headquarters (PHQ).
23 April 2020, 18:00 PM
DMP now seeking volunteers
Dhaka Metropolitan Police is set to go tougher on those who would roam around streets as the number of Covid-19 patients has been ratcheting up in the country.
18 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Docked on to uncertainty
Sadek Ali, a boatman who plies his trade on the Buriganga, took loans from his relatives to send his only son to Brunei two months ago. This, he hoped, would bring his family better days, and finally allow him to retire from after a 20-year long career.
17 April 2020, 18:00 PM
A life of crime catches up to them
They spent their childhood working as labourers in the capital’s Karwan Bazar kitchen market. Their task was to unload vegetables from trucks that arrived in droves at the market.
15 April 2020, 18:00 PM
A bleak Baishakh for restaurants
Around 30,000 restaurants across the country were eagerly waiting for this year’s Pahela Baishakh, expecting that they would get booming sales. But none of them could have imagined what would happen in the coming days.
13 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Coronavirus Fallout: Vegetable growers count huge losses
Vegetable farmers are incurring severe losses amid the countrywide shutdown that has been imposed to contain coronavirus spread.
11 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Fruits in short supply
Amid a supply shortage of imported fruits -- that reportedly meets 60 percent of the country’s demand, prices are rising in markets at the capital.
8 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Protectors still unprotected
At a time when law enforcers are enforcing social distancing among people to prevent the spread of Covid-19, the agency is failing to apply the same for its own members.
5 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Masked men on empty roads worry shopowners
Empty streets and people everywhere walking around in masks have made business owners in the capital weary, as a number of recent reports suggest that some criminals are looking at the countrywide shutdown as an opportunity.
4 April 2020, 18:00 PM
What about their security?
When thousands of homebound people on March 24 thronged Airport Railway Station in Dhaka, sepoy Saddam Hossain of Railway Nirapatta Bahini (RNB) was given the responsibility to deter people from getting on the train roof.
1 April 2020, 18:00 PM
40 prisoners quarantined, 6 isolation units at jails
The directorate of prisons has opened six division-wise isolation centers inside jails for inmates, to keep any potential coronavirus patient.
31 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Hunger, not virus, is their biggest worry
“Have you brought food for us?”
This was what 10-year-old Sohana asked these correspondents at the beginning of this conversation at Kamalapur Railway Station on Sunday noon.
30 March 2020, 18:00 PM
From cooks to crooks
They were cooks by profession and had a reputation for cooking quite well.
29 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Six held for ‘spreading rumours’
Police yesterday arrested six people for “spreading rumours” and claimed to have kept over 100 social media accounts under surveillance for their involvement in spreading misleading information and rumours regarding the coronavirus outbreak.
29 March 2020, 18:00 PM