Rafiul Islam

Six members of a family were infected with Covid-19 in the Sabujbagh area in Dhaka. The family includes an elderly couple, their two daughters and two granddaughters -- one two-and-half years old and the other only six months old, said Mahbub Alam, officer-in-charge of Sabujbagh Police Station.

“No one can imagine how difficult just trying to breathe can be ... This experience can’t be explained … It felt like I returned from the jaws of death.”

Nurse recovering from Covid-19 recounts her ordeal

The life of visually-impaired Nizamul was already quite difficult, as his meagre income from his roadside insecticide shop in the city’s Bhasantek could barely provide for his wife and three children.

Kajol -- the editor of the daily Pokkhokal -- went missing on March 10. He left home and went to his office in Hatirpool. His son, 20-year-old Monorom Polok, wrote a heartfelt letter to his father in the hopes that he will see it, wherever he is.

He had hacked his friend’s Facebook account to take revenge for an incident that happened years ago.

Every night before going to bed, Jannatul used to lock the room of the house they lived in.

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.

Three people were killed in a fire originated from a mosquito coil at a house at Bauniabad in Mirpur.

As Roksana Akter started having labour pains, she was immediately taken to a private hospital in Lakshmipur’s Chandraganj area on Friday morning.

Amid widespread outrage over police excess in enforcing restrictions on people’s movement, the authorities yesterday issued several directives asking police and other officials to act professionally.

Hearing about the whole incident on the district hotline, Dr Gaffar donned his gloves after years and he, along with another colleague -- anaesthetist Dr Iqbal Mahmud -- rushed there, around 15km away from district town, to conduct the operation.

People inside Uttar Tolarbagh residential area -- which houses 40 buildings -- continue to socialise with each other, even though the area is under lockdown following deaths of two coronavirus-infected patients there recently.

Although a week has passed since journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol went missing, his family could not file a case in this regard as two police stations in the capital are passing the buck on each other.

A week has passed since journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol went missing, but his family could not yet file a case. Two police stations have been giving Kajol’s family a runaround over the issue.

“‘You will be put in a crossfire. Your time is up. Recite the kalima.’ I thought they were taking me somewhere to kill me. I broke down in tears.”

Three weeks have passed since the murders of Munni Rahman and her two children in Dhaka’s Dakshin Khan. The prime suspect, Munni’s husband Raquib Uddin Bhuiyan, still remains traceless.

Exactly one year after the tragic blaze at Wahed Mansion in Chawk Bazar, police have neither arrested a single accused, nor made any headway in investigation.

It has been four years since a band of hackers broke into this Bangladesh Bank’s account with the New York Fed with the intent to pull off what would have been the biggest cyber heist in history.

Abdullah, a nine-month-old, had just learnt to crawl before his life met a tragic end that could have been avoided.