‘Ensuring the safety of helpseekers top priority’
The National Emergency Service-999 has been providing service to around 23,000 to 25,000 emergency help seekers daily.
3 April 2021
‘They have to wear prison uniforms’
Every accused, convicted after trial and sent to jail, has to wear black/white striped shirt and pajamas as a uniform in prisons.
21 March 2021
Pandemic pushed them below the line
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.
20 March 2021
Fire at ICU of DMCH: It had no emergency evacuation system
The intensive care unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital has no “emergency evacuation system”.
19 March 2021
Where vehicles die
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.
18 March 2021
3 patients die after ICU fire
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.
17 March 2021
Essential Commodities: Prices spike a month ahead of Ramadan
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.
13 March 2021
Plan to vaccinate 15k convicts in jail in first phase
The Department of Prisons has finalised a plan to vaccinate for Covid-19 inmates in 68 jails in the country.
25 February 2021
Man Killed in Feb 19 ‘Gunfight’: A trucker, not a drug dealer
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.
24 February 2021
Teens hawk drugs in Karwan Bazar
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.
21 February 2021
Conflicting versions of Wari murder crop up
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.
12 February 2021
Tusher-Wife Meet in Jail: Prison officials aided the crime
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.
7 February 2021
LNG supply dearth worsens gas crisis
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.
4 February 2021
Greed puts lives at risk
Three months ago, a devastating fire raged through a portion of Kalyanpur slum, killing a young man and injuring several others. The investigation by fire service officials found faulty electric connections behind it.
31 January 2021
All set for Covid jab roll-out
The government has almost completed the groundwork for rolling out Covid-19 vaccine in the country early next month.
25 January 2021
Evidence Preservation at Police Stations: It’s a mess in Maalkhanas
At first glance, it looked like piles of trash jumbled together.
15 January 2021
‘I will not spare the scoundrel’
Showing the handmade card she made for her elder sister on her 17th birthday on October 9 last year, eight-year-old Reana Asif (not her real name), the younger sister of an English-medium school student in Dhanmondi who died after rape, said, “I will not spare the scoundrel who killed my sister. I want justice.”
14 January 2021
Unauthorised, uncontrolled
Alamgir Hossain was fixing pieces of elastic thread to surgical masks using a heat pressing device inside a barely hundred square feet room in the Balurmath area of Kamrangirchar.
6 January 2021
2020, the Year of Pandemic: Heartbreaks in heartland
Abdur Rahim*, a private tutor in Dhaka, thought his life had finally stabilised after two decades of hard work. With a steady income, he could afford a place in the capital and sustain his family.
3 January 2021
Long road to justice
The family members of Benarasi weaver Mohammad Arman, who was wrongly arrested five years ago, are counting the minutes for his release.
1 January 2021