Shaheen Mollah

Never in recent history has Dhaka city been this hungry. Even when disaster struck elsewhere in the country -- when crops failed, homes washed away by rivers, villages flooded -- the city always had space to take in more.

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

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

Nine-year-old Raihan is the only child of his family. His mother Rabeya Begum named him Omar Faruk Limon at birth, with Raihan as the nickname. Six years ago, his limbs became disfigured due to polio.

Patients who have not tested positive for the coronavirus but are generically sick are caught in a quandary -- to go to the hospital or not?

Although Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi yesterday urged the public to avoid panic buying amid the looming coronavirus threat, the news of the first death from Covid-19 in Bangladesh aggravated the buying spree among consumers for rice, potatoes, lentils, onions, garlic and ginger.

The Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital opens a flu corner to ensure special care of people coming to hospital with flu.

A young female patient with gastrointestinal complications died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Saturday afternoon.

As part of efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus infections, the government is converting six hospitals in and around the capital into facilities for treating COVID-19 patients.

He is back. Ishtiaq Ahmed, known as the drug lord of Mohammadpur Geneva Camp, was forced to stay out of his empire after the anti-narcotics crackdown began in 2018.

When a cocktail bomb explodes, it does so with a loud bang, often louder than a transformer bursting. When multiple bombs detonate one by one, the explosion can be distinctly identified.

Abir Ahmed spent Sunday night in a state of restless elation, eagerly anticipating the next morning’s farewell programme for him and his fellow SSC examinees.

This is pretty much what Shahin Alam heard, when he arrived at Karwan Bazar in search of work.

Onion prices have shot up by Tk 40-50 a kg, within 24 hours of a meeting in which Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi requested retailers, wholesalers and retailers to help government prevent any price spiral ahead of Ramadan in April.

“Mithu! Hey Mithu!” calls reverberate along the length of the road in front of Shah Ali Mazar on a cool winter midday.

With burns all over his body, 20-year-old Mehedi Hasan kept asking his sister whether he would be able to attend yesterday’s college entrance exams.

Sitting at her home in Narayanganj’s Siddhirganj, a feeble-looking Maksuda Begum stares vacantly into the distance. She mumbles most of the time making her words difficult to catch.

It used to draw Dhaka’s hip crowd and the expat community alike.

Sitting on the floor by her son, Nurunnahar gently moves Ibrahim’s head upwards and helps him drink water.

With its clean and calm ambience, the institute looks like a privately-run one, well-equipped to provide treatment to patients.