Shaheen Mollah

Every month a mindboggling Tk 2.47 crore used to be gathered inside Chattogram Central Jail and the lion's share came from drug dealing, its arrested jailer Sohel Rana Biswas told investigators while in remand.

A youth was killed yesterday as police opened fire during a clash with transport workers and locals protesting the toll hike at the First Bangladesh-China Friendship (Buriganga 1) Bridge in Hasnabad of Dhaka.

Abul Kalam dabs a wet swab on a baby's right arm, unperturbed by the infant's scream in pain from burns. His experienced gloved hands run quickly and carefully from the child's elbow down to his fingers as he dresses the wounds.

Writhing in pain on the floor of the female ward of Dhaka Medical College Hospital's burn unit, Anjuara Begum still kept looking beside her to check on her son who was sedated and placed next to her.

As the sun beat down on the capital at around 1:00pm yesterday, sexagenarian Khijir Ahmed was seen looking for a spot to sit under the shade of a tree inside the High Court mazar (shrine), waiting for Zuhr prayers to be over.

They must be turning in their graves. Jahangir Hossain died one and a half years ago, Mansur Ali a year ago and Zilllur Rahman six months back. Now all these months and years later, police have charged them with vandalising vehicles and planning subversive activities.

Teenage gang feud was behind the murder of 17-year-old Mehedi Hasan Shuvo, who was killed by his rivals in the capital's Dakkhin Khan area on August 31, said police.

Joj Mia, the man who attained infamy when he was falsely-implicated in the August 21 grenade attack, still harbours hopes that one day the state will end his prolonged suffering.

People of Dhaka city started purchasing their sacrificial animals yesterday. Markets, however, have not reached their peaks yet due to prices being high. Traders of cattle markets blamed last year's loss and increased cost of fodder for the high price of the cattle this year.

Remember Tofa and Tahura? The conjoined twins from Gaibandha, who were successfully separated in a marathon surgery at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on August 1 last year, are 22 months old now.

A record number of patients from across the country were admitted at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) and National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR) in Dhaka during the Eid-ul-fitr holidays.

Street vendors in the capital have to pay much more as extortion ahead of Eid-ul Fitr, further impacting their day-to-day income.

Like in previous years, healthcare at well-known city hospitals during Eid vacation would depend mostly on a handful of doctors and nurses.

Nusrat Jahan Moon has seen her father being lowered into the depths of earth from where nobody has ever come back, but her innocent little mind cannot fathom or grasp the fact that she will never see her father again.

Some members of his family call him “crazy”. Others think he is trailblazer. Sri Tapan, the man in question, however, feels he is just fulfilling his long-term wishes.

She was their hopes and aspirations for the future. They had a strong belief that she would change the lot of the poor family someday.

“I want to go home,” was the last request made by college student Rajib Hossain, when he last spoke to his uncle, Jahidul Islam, around 9:30pm on Monday.

In tears and stunned silence, Tanzid Sultan Mahi walks out of the graveyard without speaking to anyone. At just the age of 14, his life has been thrown into depths of unfathomable darkness. He has realised, nothing in his life will ever be the same again.

She had a dream to be a lawyer someday. With that in mind, she had been trying hard to chase the dream. But the dream seems to go unfulfilled now as the HSC candidate lost her study materials in a devastating fire at Elias Mollah Slum in the capital's Mirpur early Monday.

She was to finish her studies in a few months and be the one looked up to by her poor family. But her dreams were dealt a big blow yesterday.