Dhaka

Opinion: When did private tuition become a crime?

Since when did private tuition become a crime? When did private tuition become synonymous to stealing, pick-pocketing or mugging that the ministry would think of putting a private tutor behind bars?
7 April 2016

Nazim murder: JnU students threaten strike Sunday

Jagannath University students threaten to go for an all-out strike on the campus on Sunday demanding arrest of their fellow Nazim’s killers.
7 April 2016

4 of a family burnt in Mirpur acid attack

Four persons of a family suffer burn injuries as miscreants hurl acid on them at Rupnagar in Dhaka’s Mirpur area.
7 April 2016

Pahela Baishakh: No access to Ramna, Suhrawardy Udyan after 4pm

Nobody can enter Ramna Park and Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka after 4:00pm on Pahela Baishakh, DMP Additional Commissioner Monirul Islam announces.
6 April 2016

80 lakh Bangladeshis suffering from diabetes: State minister

Around 80 lakh people in Bangladesh are suffering from diabetes, State Minister for Health Zahid Malik says.
6 April 2016

Politics not for killing, burning people: PM

Recalling the horrible days of BNP-Jamaat's non-stop blockade and hartal in 2015, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says those who killed people in arson attacks how they could expect public support as politics is not for killing people.
6 April 2016

Tejgaon house fire doused

A fire that brakes out at a three-storey tin-shed house at Tejgaon Industrial area of Dhaka is doused after an hour efforts of the firefighters.
5 April 2016

Fire at Old Dhaka residential building

Fire breaks out at a residential building at Siddique Bazar in the old part of Dhaka.
5 April 2016

Sangskritik Jote for fair probe into Tonu murder

Sommilito Sangskritik Jote demands a fair investigation into the murder of Sohagi Jahan Tonu and punishment of those involved with the killing.
5 April 2016

Mild tremors jolt Bangladesh

Mild tremors were felt in Dhaka and other parts of Bangladesh this afternoon – as result of a 5.0 magnitude earthquake in India’s Lakhipur.
5 April 2016

Rajuk in eviction drive at Karwan Bazar amid protest

Dhaka’s development authority is on an eviction drive in capital’s biggest kitchen market Karwan Bazar. Businessmen have grouped in protest against the drive.
5 April 2016

Biman offers Baishakh discount on Dhaka to Barisal, Saidpur routes

Biman Bangladesh Airline offers special discounts on Dhaka-Barisal and Dhaka-Saidpur routes on the eve of Pahela Baishakh.
4 April 2016

Unapproved businesses must go from Dhaka residential areas

Unapproved institutions and commercial establishments must leave from the residential areas in Dhaka city within the next six months.
4 April 2016

Man held with 25 gold bars at Kamalapur station

Police arrest a man along with three kilogrammes of gold at Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka.
4 April 2016

Bridge sinks, Sylhet’s rail link with Dhaka, Ctg snapped

Rail communications of Sylhet with Dhaka and Chittagong remain suspended as a railway bridge in Moulvibazar goes under water due to overnight rain.
4 April 2016

Khaleda to sit with alliance chiefs to decide on UP polls

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will sit with the top leaders of 20-party alliance to decide whether it will participate in the Union Parishad elections.
4 April 2016

Grenades, arms, ammo found at Bogra blast site

A bomb disposal team recovers at least twenty grenades, firearms and ammunition from a building in Sherpur upazila of Bogra where two people were killed in a bomb explosion yesterday.
4 April 2016

Filmmaker Shahidul Islam Khokon passes away

Noted filmmaker Shahidul Islam Khokon dies at a hospital in Dhaka this morning due to a prolonged illness.
4 April 2016

Muezzin killed inside Old Dhaka mosque

Unknown assailants have stabbed dead a muezzin inside a mosque in Old Dhaka’s Islampur area. Police recovered the body from the stairs of the mosque. However, any motive behind the murder is yet to be ascertained.
4 April 2016

Missing Drik official found dead in Narayanganj

An official of Drik Picture Library Limited is found dead in Siddhirganj of Narayanganj hours after he went missing from Dhaka.
3 April 2016