Muntakim Saad

Illegal gas connections via plastic pipes helped Friday night’s fire spread faster, razing almost the entire slum at Mirpur’s Chalantika, fire service officials said.

The scenes at Chalantika slum resemble those from a wasteland in a dystopia.

Students who took to the streets last year for safer roads could not achieve what they had set out to do, but now many of them have to appear before courts almost every month as the police accused them of vandalism.

A man and his wife have embezzled over Tk 7.31 crore from job aspirants with their 12 fraud educational institutions in Bogura and Rangpur.

Kabirul Hossain Molla’s offence was that he trespassed on Indian soil near the border in Satkhira on May 10. He wanted to bring some packs of tea leaves.

Despite concerns from rights defenders home and abroad, deaths in “crossfire” continues to rise in the country with 170 people killed in so-called gunfights since January.

It is becoming increasingly difficult for quota reform leaders to attend court hearings every month as police are “dillydallying” the submission of probe reports in five cases filed against them over a year ago.

Fear has gripped Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT), as murders are taking place one after another due to alleged inter-party conflicts between local armed groups.

Over a house in the capital’s Mirpur area, a banner hangs reading: some men in civilian clothes introducing themselves as law enforcers abducted Mohan Miah on June 10, 2018.

Once he learnt that a fire had broken out in the building and it was spreading fast, Shariful Islam on the ninth floor of FR Tower told his colleagues to run to safety. But they could not as black smoke already had engulfed the staircases.

Ten of the 26 people killed in Thursday's devastating fire in Banani used to work at Heritage Air Express on the 10th floor of the 22-storey FR Tower.

Four suspected “masterminds” of a racket who amassed a hefty amount of money allegedly by leaking question papers of various public exams and government recruitment tests, got bail in a money laundering case recently.

What could be a day of boundless festivity for the first time in three decades was eventually spoiled by allegations of foul play, and it was the female students of the country's premier university who first raised the alarm bell.

The ghastly fire at the Churihatta intersection in Dhaka’s Chawkbazar area leaves some with the last moments of their lives in agony, while others are left with a horrific memory that will haunt them forever.

“Fire!”, “Leave immediately!” -- such screams were ricocheting off the walls and echoing down the corridors of the children's ward at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, as frenzied patients started running for safety, moments after Thursday's fire broke out at the hospital.

The hope for justice for a college girl, who was sexually assaulted during an Awami League rally last year, has turned bleak as police have appealed to close the case claiming they could not identify the culprits.

Three sons of presidents are running for parliament from Kishoreganj and people are saying it's the district of the VIPs.

Voters in Netrokona-4 had high hopes for a tough race as three women with graduate degrees were running for parliament from there.

About 200 teenagers were found shouting slogans near the IBA Hostel in Farmgate on Sunday to drum up public support for Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, Awami League candidate for Dhaka-12.

Around noon yesterday, prison vans entering the court premises rang alive with party slogans being shouted by those inside.