Dhaka

Doctors confirm gang rape of Garo girl

Doctors at forensic department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital confirm that the 21-year-old indigenous girl was gang-raped at Kuril Bus Stand in Dhaka Thursday night.
23 May 2015

Airport road gridlocked following transport workers’ blockade

A huge traffic congestion takes place as transport workers block Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Banani of Dhaka.
22 May 2015

Rain in the north, heat elsewhere

Mixed weather pattern is prevailing through Bangladesh this summer with rain cooling life back to tugging quilts in the north and baking everyone under heat elsewhere.
21 May 2015

3 war crimes suspects held in Cox’s Bazar

Police arrest three war crimes suspects in Cox's Bazar hours after a tribunal ordered their arrest.
21 May 2015

‘JMB wants to wage jihad in India’

Accused in Burdwan blasts tells interrogators that JMB had plans to target West Bengal, Assam.
21 May 2015

Derailment halts Ctg rail link for 5hrs

Chittagong's rail link with rest of the country remains snapped for over five hours after a Dhaka-bound train derailed in Akhaura railway station in Brahmanbaria.
21 May 2015

Jihad's death: Railway engineer gets bail on surrender

A Dhaka court grants bail to the railway engineer who was charged over death of four-year-old Jihad who died after falling into a deep well last year.
21 May 2015

Bloggers die young (video)

It is hard to believe that a group of writers are in mortal danger in the country now just for expressing their opinions. But that’s the truth.
20 May 2015

2 war criminals get life until death

A tribunal in Dhaka sentences Mahidur Rahman and Afsar Hossain to life until death on one charge of crimes against humanity committed in Chapainawabganj during the Liberation War in 1971.
20 May 2015

Shillong police get Salahuddin’s health report

Shillong Civil Hospital, where BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed is undergoing treatment, has confirmed that he has been suffering from different ailments relating to kidney, heart, skin and urology.
19 May 2015

Analysis: Why automated traffic signal failed

A new traffic signal in Dhaka proves to be a disaster as the capital experiences a total breakdown of traffic control this week.
19 May 2015

'Fake cops' held in Dhaka

Police detained six people from Dhaka's Badda area who are said to have been involved with extortion identifying themselves as law enforcers.
19 May 2015

Mohammadpur school cleaner to be sacked

Mohammadpur Preparatory Higher Secondary School decides to sack cleaner Gopal for trying to sexually harass a Class-1 student and to remove school rector Zeenatun Nesa for her indecent behaviour with guardians over the issue.
18 May 2015

AL men resorted to vote-rigging in city polls: TIB

Citing that ruling Awami League men resorted to “massive” vote-rigging during April 28 city corporation elections, TIB says the elections were not held in free, fair and impartial manner.
18 May 2015

Morning sees gridlock in Dhaka

Monday morning rush hour traffic seemed more packed than usual, as vehicles were at a standstill at different parts of Dhaka.
18 May 2015

Bangladesh tanneries: HRW gives bleak outlook

Bangladesh must enforce laws to stop child labour and occupational and environmental health dangers in tannery industry, says Human Rights Watch.
18 May 2015

5 kidnappers held, Tk 1.8cr seized at Banani

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrest five members of a gang of kidnappers from different areas at Uttara of Dhaka and recovered Tk 1.8 crore from their possession.
17 May 2015

Security guard killed in Ashulia 'robbery'

Alleged robbers stabs a security guard to death during a "heist" in a readymade garment unit's warehouse in Ashulia, on the outskirts of capital Dhaka.
17 May 2015

Dhaka-Guwahati bus service talks Monday

Bangladesh and India are expected to finalise the modalities of a bus service between Dhaka and Guwahati Monday ahead of Narendra Modi’s tour next month.
16 May 2015

School shut, vice principal discharged over sexual harassment

Mohammadpur Preparatory School closed till May 25 and its vice principal discharged in face of protests over sexual harassment of a minor student.
16 May 2015