​Firefighters douse a fire that broke out at a jhut (scrap fabrics from garment factories) godown at Diyabari Beribadh in Dhaka’s Mirpur.

As the monsoon month Ashar comes to an end, Dhaka dwellers wake up to waterlogged roads, after the capital sees a record 103mm rain in the last 24hrs till 9:00am.

A police constable and his daughter die after a bus hit them in Demra area in Dhaka this evening.

Waterlogging in Dhaka has become a common problem during monsoon. Rainwater is carried through natural canals and large concrete pipes to flood plains and rivers, but as most of the canals have been grabbed by the encroachers or clogged with solid wastes, the city streets are submerged even after a little rain.

Probe did not find any major fault of the policemen at Banani police in connection to recording case of the twin rape incident, Dhaka’s police chief has said.

A 15-year-old girl is allegedly gang-raped inside a school in Jurain area of Dhaka.

Customs intelligence officials seize a luxury Mercedes, worth around Tk 2 crore, from Dhaka’s Mohakhali DOHS area.

Abahani Limited managed to beat Kalabagan Krira Chakra by six wickets with 118 balls remaining during the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League match at BKSP’s No. 4 ground today.

Gazi Group Cricketers defeated Abahani Limited by 25 runs in the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League match at BKSP No. 3 Ground today.

A youth’s body is found on the rail tracks of Kuril in Dhaka city. The deceased was primarily identified as Rohan Hossain Billal, 22, from Bhola and a private car driver in Nikunja, family sources said.

A hawker is crushed under the wheels of an inter-district bus in Sayedabad bus terminal area of Dhaka.

It is now a different Tamim Iqbal that one gets to see in international cricket as the left-hander has adopted a much more composed approach.

The Supreme Court exonerates the Hazaribagh tannery owners from paying Tk 30.85 crore for damaging and polluting the environment.

A woman is killed after a bus runs over her in Airport area of Dhaka.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sets aside protocol in a significant gesture to personally receive his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina after she reaches New Delhi on a four-day state visit to India.

The 136th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) assembly begins in Dhaka focusing on taking decisive actions to end the rising social, political and economic inequalities.

The Speaker of the Swedish Parliament, Urban Ahlin, arrives in Dhaka for a six-day visit to attend the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) assembly.

The High Court directs the health ministry to obtain a report from the experts of three international organisations about public health risk from radiation emitted from mobile phone towers set up in different areas across the country.

Three persons including two children suffer burn injuries in a fire caused by gas leak at their house in Dhaka’s Jurain area.

A professor of a private college is killed in a road accident in Gulshan area of Dhaka.