Nineteen years of relentless struggle ended in heartbreak for Mahbubul Hasan, owner of Dhaka’s Matrix Dresses. The export-oriented readymade garment factory officially shut down, leaving 177 workers and 13 staff members jobless. Persistent business slumps, international market volatility, rising production costs, and mounting local pressures forced the owner to permanently lock the factory gates, rendering […]

Electricity consumers across the country face a challenging day of power disruptions, with anticipated load shedding projected to peak at 2,894 megawatts during the late afternoon. Persistent generation deficits continue to strain the national grid, causing widespread inconvenience for households, commercial establishments, and industrial operations alike. Data compiled from Power Grid Bangladesh PLC indicates that […]

Staff Correspondent Local residents and members of affected families staged a human chain demanding an impartial investigation into allegations against Khalekuzzaman Bablu, secretary of the Kaliganj Upazila unit of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. The allegations include land grabbing, extortion, assault, drug trafficking, harassment through fabricated cases and the illegal filling of agricultural land with sand. […]

A primary school headteacher has died in Dhaka after falling from a rickshaw when a mugger snatched her bag near the South Plaza of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. The victim, Mosa. Ronjina Parveen, served as the headteacher of the Bagbari Girls’ Government Primary School in Bogura. The tragedy unfolded on Saturday morning at around 06:30 […]

A thirty-five-year-old rickshaw-puller has died following a violent altercation in the capital’s Kadamtali area, where he was reportedly beaten by local residents after being accused of attempted mugging. The incident unfolded in the early hours of Saturday, at approximately 04:00 local time, near the Baruitola neighbourhood in Shyampur. According to local law enforcement, the victim […]

Patients admitted to the Sherpur Upazila Health Complex in Bogura endure punishing heat during power outages, as the facility’s standby generator remains idle due to a complete lack of fuel allocations. During a recent Friday evening visit between half-past seven and half-past eight, conditions inside the men’s and women’s wards were intensely humid and stifling. […]

Officers from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 554 individuals during a series of intensive anti-crime sweeps conducted across various neighbourhoods of the capital over the past 24 hours. Alongside the mass arrests, law enforcement personnel recovered substantial quantities of illicit narcotics and incriminating items, filing 30 separate criminal cases against the suspects as part […]

Officers from Dumki Police Station in Patuakhali have recovered the hanging body of a twenty-year-old muezzin from his residential room inside a local mosque. The grim discovery was made on a Friday night at the Baitul Mamun Jame Mosque, situated within the Hawladar household premises in North Pangasia village under Dumki upazila, sending shockwaves through […]

A crippling 40-kilometre traffic tailback along the vital Dhaka-Chittagong highway has left thousands of commuters stranded in searing heat, resulting in the tragic death of a cardiac patient trapped inside an ambulance. The massive congestion, stretching from Sonargaon in Narayanganj to Iliotganj in Comilla’s Daudkandi upazila, paralysed the Dhaka-bound lane for over 24 hours. The […]