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
DMP to involve student volunteers
Inspired by last year's student movement for road safety, the traffic department of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) is going to include school and college students as volunteers in the fortnightly traffic discipline programme starting today.
14 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Outrage after unspeakable brutality
For her birthday yesterday, all she wanted was a teddy bear from her parents. Billal Hossain, her uncle, was going to buy her one as a surprise.
8 January 2019, 18:00 PM
4 local NGOs funded terror organisations
Four Bangladeshi NGOs have channelled Tk 73 crore, received in foreign aids, to militant outfits and Jamaat-e-Islami over the last one year, law enforcement agencies have claimed following some recent arrests.
31 December 2018, 18:00 PM
The broken promises
Voters in char areas of Lalmonirhat seem to have lost hope as several promises regarding the area's development had been announced in previous elections over the decades but nothing was done in reality.
27 December 2018, 18:00 PM
BNP wants to plant flag on JP stronghold
Though Lalmonirhat-3 has been a stronghold of the Jatiya Party, a partner in the Awami League-led grand alliance, since 1991, the Jatiya Oikyafront, led by the BNP and several other parties, is eyeing a win this time.
26 December 2018, 18:00 PM
The lost decades, and fall of JP bastion
There was a time when rickshaw-pullers in Rangpur denied ride requests if they came to know that the passenger had an inclination towards BNP or Awami League. They were often heard saying to people, “You are a not supporter of Jatiya Party. I won't carry you”.
26 December 2018, 18:00 PM
A new kind of first-time voters
Abdul Awal, 58, cannot hold back his excitement as for the first time in his life he would be voting in the 11th parliamentary polls on December 30.
25 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Ershad's campaign yet to pick up on home ground
With only few days remaining for national election, supporters of HM Ershad, nominated by Awami League-led grand alliance, are still waiting for funds to conduct campaign.
25 December 2018, 18:00 PM
999 proving handy
It was 6:00pm on November 13 when a young man was spotted shouting while vandalising a residence at Kaptan Bazar area in Cumilla.
11 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Crammed beyond Capacity
Prisons across the country are crammed with a record number of inmates, in some places three to seven times their capacity, as a result of the crackdown on illegal drugs and a “mass arrest” of BNP men over the last few months.
11 December 2018, 18:00 PM
From mechanic to bomb maker
He was involved in at least 50 bomb attacks in the capital and surrounding areas in the last 15 years, officers said after questioning him.
10 December 2018, 18:00 PM
He wanted to be 'Boss'
In 2015, AKM Rana was doing rather well as a landlord. The then 35 years old did not have to do much yet money was flowing in from the two buildings and several shops he leased out.
6 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Illegal Arms Trade: Lot of chatter ahead of polls
Law enforcers on surveillance have been picking up a lot of chatter on illegal arms trade ahead of the national election.
3 December 2018, 18:00 PM
64pc polling centres risky
Sixty-four percent of the polling centres across the country are vulnerable to violence, with the highest number of such centres in Dhaka division, and police have finalised an elaborate security plan giving importance to those.
3 December 2018, 18:00 PM
To catch a 'Bullet'
Mehedi Hasan Saikat alias Juwel Munshi, 25, was popularly known as “Bullet” in the underworld.
2 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Weakened, 'Neo JMB' now out to regroup
Militant outfit “Neo JMB” is trying to regroup under a new leader and planning terror attacks, claim counterterrorism officials.
13 November 2018, 18:00 PM
2 women surrender after 39 hours
Two suspected women militants surrender two days after law enforcers cordoned off a seven-storey building in Gangpar area of Madhabdi upazila in Narsingdi.
17 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Narsingdi Militant Hideout: Two killed in police raid
Two militant suspects, including a woman, were killed in a police operation at a hideout in Narsingdi's Shaikerchar area yesterday, about two weeks after they came to the district with several other suspects to attend the wedding of one of their female accomplices.
16 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Even dead not spared
They must be turning in their graves.
Jahangir Hossain died one and a half years ago, Mansur Ali a year ago and Zilllur Rahman six months back.
Now all these months and years later, police have charged them with vandalising vehicles and planning subversive activities.
12 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Robots to deal with bombs
Two bomb-disposal robots would soon be used in Bangladesh for busting explosive-stashed militants' dens where the risk of death lurks in every corner.
15 September 2018, 18:00 PM