Dhaka
India to accept only MRP from Sept 1
India announces that it would accept only valid Machine Readable Passports (MRP) for visa from September 1.
30 August 2015
Goodbye, little ghost!
Muhammad Sadman Casper, also known as “little ghost” dies at a Dhaka Hospital.
30 August 2015
ICT order on Zafrullah’s contempt deferred
A tribunal in Dhaka defers the date of passing order on contempt of court proceedings against Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Zafrullah Chowdhury to September 1.
30 August 2015
3 killed as bus ploughs through tea stall in Savar
Three people are killed when a Dhaka-bound bus ploughed through a tea stall in Savar, the outskirts of Dhaka.
29 August 2015
Who do the pavements and footbridges belong to?
Anyone who has ever taken a long walk through the streets of Dhaka can vouch that it is unfriendly to pedestrians.
28 August 2015
Moghbazar flyover ordeal won’t end soon (video)
What began as the construction of a one-of-a-kind elevated expressway in Dhaka two years ago, the Moghbazar flyover has suffered periods of lags in the making. The traffic situation along the construction site that has turned worse is unlikely to get better until the completion of the structure – not before 2017.
28 August 2015
Fake cops, dope gang members held in Dhaka
Police claimed to have detained 13 police impersonators and doping gang members from Dhaka.
27 August 2015
Jatiya Party faction leader Kazi Zafar dies
Former prime minister and now chief of a faction of Jatiya Party, Kazi Zafar Ahmed died at a Dhaka hospital this morning.
27 August 2015
80,000 Hajj visas issued so far
The Saudi government has issued 80 thousand hajj visas until now, the according to the country’s envoy here.
26 August 2015
Journo assault: Official withdrawn from EC project
The public administration ministry withdraws deputy secretary Abdul Bari from an Election Commission project over alleged assault of two journalists.
25 August 2015
Stop building commercial structures on Rankin Street: HC
The High Court directs the authorities to stop construction of commercial structures in the residential area at Rankin Street in Wari area of Dhaka.
24 August 2015
Shawkat Mahmud remanded again
A Dhaka court places BNP chairperson's adviser Shawkat Mahmud on a four-day fresh remand in four separate arson and vandalism cases.
24 August 2015
Dhaka vs Kolkata
But it does not need Economist Intelligence Unit’s ranking for anybody to know that Dhaka has been rotting, stinking and becoming more terrible to live in every year.
24 August 2015
BIWTA recreation centre on Buriganga to go
The Supreme Court upholds a High Court verdict that directed the government to demolish and remove the recreation centre from Buriganga river at Kamrangirchar area in Dhaka.
24 August 2015
2 'Hizb-ut Tahrir men' among 6 held in Dhaka
Detectives claimed to have detained six people including two members of the banned organisation Hizb-ut Tahrir from the capital’s Uttara and Mugda areas.
24 August 2015
IGP justifies ‘gunfights’
Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque justifies the recent “gunfights” saying law enforcers have the right to self-defence.
23 August 2015
2 charged with Garo woman’s gang-rape
Rapid Action Battalion presses charges against two persons for gang-raping a 21-year-old indigenous woman in Dhaka on May 21.
23 August 2015
When foreigners lend a hand to clean Dhaka (video)
A group of students from University of Japan in Bangladesh take matters on their hand lending their effort to make a cleaner Dhaka and raise awareness among all for the same.
23 August 2015
Death of Dhaka BCL leader: 3 Rab officials sued
Three Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) officials have been sued for murder over death of Bangladesh Chhatra League’s Hazaribagh unit chief.
23 August 2015
Is this beautification? (video)
What comes to mind when we think of Paris is the Eiffel Tower. With London, it is the Big Ben while Delhi conjures the image of the India Gate in our minds. But what of Dhaka?
23 August 2015