Families lost in flame
It was a leap day on Thursday, and many decided to celebrate the day that comes every four years with dreams and promises to be in a better place in life when the next one arrives.
1 March 2024
Consumers brace for price shocks
Consumers are bracing for multiple price shocks ahead of Ramadan that usually marks a period of high household spending.
28 February 2024
A day like any other, until it wasn’t
It was 7:45am. Like countless mornings before, textile engineer Fakhrul Hasan Rifat started steering his motorcycle through Dhaka streets yesterday, with his wife Jarin Tasnim Nawshin confidently perched behind him as the couple started their usual day.
19 February 2024
Essential prices keep spiralling
Mohammad Shahid looked at the shopkeeper in Karwan Bazar in disbelief after hearing that a kg of onions was selling for Tk 120.
9 February 2024
Metro Day Off: Business picks up for buses on weekend
Usually, Fridays mean less passengers on Dhaka’s roads, making business difficult for buses. However, the game has changed since metro trains started operating between Uttara and Motijheel all day.
2 February 2024
Ma, will I be able to walk again?
Lying on a bed at National Institute of Neuro Sciences and Hospital, Leon keeps asking his mother -- Ma, will I be able to walk again?
30 January 2024
Who’s to blame for vegetable price spiral?
Day labourer Azizul Haque was upset to see the price of papaya when he went to do grocery shopping yesterday: it has doubled in a space of a few days.
29 January 2024
Onion price soars even in peak season
It is peak harvest season, but the price of onion has soared by Tk 10 per kilogram at the capital’s kitchen markets over the last three days.
26 January 2024
Uttara-Motijheel Metro: Buses beginning to feel the pinch
Ever since the metro trains started operating between Uttara and Motijheel all day, buses have been seeing fewer passengers.
23 January 2024
Rice prices yet to cool despite govt warnings
The price of rice has not gone down in Dhaka’s kitchen markets despite government warnings of legal action against traders.
19 January 2024
They tortured and watched him die
Saiful Islam Russel was lying on the floor -- motionless, blood oozing from his mouth, and bruises on his face and body.
17 January 2024
Rice prices spiralling once again
With the harvesting of Aman crops, the prices of BR-28, Paijam, Guti and aromatic rice were supposed to decrease. Instead, the rice prices have gone up by Tk 2-8 per kg in the last 10 days in Dhaka’s kitchen markets.
15 January 2024
‘I’m not leaving my son’
“Fire, fire”.
Sharmin Akter, 22, woke up hearing these desperate cries which shattered the stillness of the night in Mollabari Slum in Tejgaon yesterday. Her immediate thought was to save her one-and-a-half-year-old son, Nafi Hossain.
13 January 2024
Gas crisis leaves households, industry on edge
The gas supply now is the lowest since April 2020, shows data from Petrobangla -- in a development that informs the acute crisis plaguing the industrial sector as well as households.
12 January 2024
Veggies too pricey even in mid-winter
Prices of almost all vegetables have gone up in Dhaka’s kitchen markets over the last two weeks, hitting the consumers hard, though it is the peak season for winter vegetables.
12 January 2024
Desperate, they opt for firewood
Khadiza Begum, a resident of Mirpur’s Jheelpar slum, has been struggling to cope up with expenses amid persistent inflation.
9 January 2024
Benapole Express Fire: Of unanswered calls and missing loved ones
Natasha Jesmin, a teacher of the Academia School in the capital’s Wari, boarded a Dhaka-bound train around 7:00pm on Friday after a visit to her home in Faridpur.
6 January 2024
10 inmates out of 47,000 voted thru postal ballots
With the country going to polls tomorrow, at least 86,000 inmates in 68 jails across the country also got a chance to exercise their franchise through postal ballots this time.
5 January 2024
Tale of a baby bird and a heart of gold
When Leon noticed a baby parakeet had fallen from its nest on a treetop, he knew he had to do something to help
1 January 2024
Serial muggers terrorise Mohammadpur
The residents of Mohammadpur’s Beribadh area have been living with a growing sense of insecurity and fear over the last few months due to recurring robberies and muggings perpetrated mostly by teenage gangs.
30 December 2023