An alleged robber was killed in a “gunfight” with police in the capital's Wari area early yesterday.

A city is not mere buildings, streets and spaces; it is a theatre of social actions. And it is in that theatre, according to the American urbanist Lewis Mumford, that “man's more purposive activities…work out, through conflicting cooperative

A government officer is found dead in Dhaka 12 hours after he allegedly went missing.

Two workers suffer burn injuries in an explosion of a steel melting furnace in Shyampur Industrial area of Dhaka.

Unidentified criminals stabbed a Chhatra League leader to death in the city's Karail area early yesterday allegedly over personal enmity.

A Dhaka court yesterday issued warrants for arrest of BNP leader Amanullah Aman and 168 others in a case filed last year under the Explosive Substances Act.

Bangladesh capital Dhaka has ranked the second least liveable city in the world, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit annual global survey.

Bangladesh capital Dhaka has been ranked the second least liveable city in the world while Damascus ranked the worst, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit annual global survey. Civil war and terrorism resulted in cities like Damascus ranking poorly and unavailability of adequate infrastructure is responsible for the low score in Dhaka.

This city can be cruel. I have been kicked and pushed away. I have seen worse being done to my brethren. In spite of all this, this city has become my home.

Last week I went to Sadarghat with my team to work on a documentary on Dhaka's urban story. We arrived at the launch terminal in the wee hours, just when launches arrive from the country's riverine south. The terminal was quite a sight.

In spite of falling off the roof-top of a six-storey building at Dhaka’s Uttara, a female house help fortunately manages to survive.

The body of an eight-year-old boy has been recovered from an under-construction building in Dhaka’s Khilgaon area hours after he went missing, police say.

A man dies and another is injured as a branch of a tree falls on them in Dhaka’s Ramna Park.

Subaru has come a long way from the mid to late-90s. Following the rallying success of the GC8 Impreza to releasing street

Believe it or not, a street restaurant is making pizza using Bangla-styled wood-fired stove in Paribagh of Dhaka.

A mobile court busts six fake mineral water plants in Bosila area of Dhaka’s Mohammadpur and sentenced six staffers to different terms of jail.

A man dies as a tree fell on him in Dhanmondi Lake in Dhaka.

A minivan runs over a teenager in Dhaka’s Arambag as the spate of deaths resulting from lack of discipline in the city’s transport sector continues.

Eight persons are arrested on charges of money counterfeiting and a big stash of fake currency is seized from a house in Dhaka’s South Monirpur area in Mirpur.

The country's century-old botanical treasure trove Baldah Garden with its rare collection of exotic plants now remains uncared and unattended for, facing the onslaught of billboards, high-rise buildings, and pollution.