Shaheen Mollah

The Rayerbazar graveyard – the lone Covid-19-dedicated graveyard in the capital – has been seeing an alarming influx of bodies as over 100 of them were buried in just two weeks of this month.

Before the first phase of restrictions following the surge of Covid-19 cases, Md Bablu (23) used to drive buses in the port city. He came to the

In the face of recent violence by Hefajat-e-Islam, the police have beefed up security in different districts, including Dhaka.

In the capital yesterday, finding an empty ICU bed was akin to finding a needle in a haystack.

Once a driver by profession, Aminul Islam Hannan of the capital’s Dakshinkhan area, who was recently arrested on charge of shooting a man dead in broad daylight, made a fortune in the last one decade through widespread extortion, said locals.

Shop owners and employees of New Market, Bashundhara City Shopping Mall and Sadarghat areas in Dhaka took to the streets to protest the government’s decision to keep all shops and malls closed during the seven-day restriction to contain Covid-19 surge.

One thing from the lockdown last year still etched raw in the collective memory of the city is hordes of hungry people coming out onto the streets.

The National Emergency Service-999 has been providing service to around 23,000 to 25,000 emergency help seekers daily.

Every accused, convicted after trial and sent to jail, has to wear black/white striped shirt and pajamas as a uniform in prisons.

A 40-year-old woman was sitting in a shared kitchen in Korail Bosti, where a pan of catfish stewed away on the stove. But it wasn’t hers -- it was her neighbour’s lunch.

The intensive care unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital has no “emergency evacuation system”.

With all four tyres deflated and almost half of each wheel sunk into the ground, one could hardly tell that it is a Toyota Corona Exiv. The car has no windows, not even the front or back windscreens.

Bulbul Ahmed Kajol heard an explosion near ICU bed-12 at the Covid-19 unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s (DMCH) new building around 8:10am yesterday.

The soaring prices of daily essentials, including chicken, edible oil, onion and vegetables, have added to the woes of the people living on a fixed income.

The Department of Prisons has finalised a plan to vaccinate for Covid-19 inmates in 68 jails in the country.

A man, who was killed in an alleged gunfight with Rab-10 in Dhaka’s Keraniganj on Friday, was the driver of a truck that ran over and killed a Rab member in Mymensingh’s Bhaluka on February 14.

Around 7:00pm on February 14, a group of five or six young girls aged between 14 and 18 were seen roaming around in front of Tejgaon level crossing.

Family members of a man whose body was found by police by chance on Thursday said the woman with whom he had an affair had killed him because he wanted to break up.

A probe has found that Hallmark General Manager Tushar Ahmed spent around two hours with a woman at a prison officer’s room in Kashimpur Central Jail-1.

Dhaka city dwellers are suffering due to shortage of pipeline gas for two months and the authorities’ promises to solve the problem so far appear empty.