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Shaheen Mollah

dandy addiction among women in Dhaka

Cheap adhesive addiction rising among women

14 August 2026
It was around 5:00pm on July 22. Seven to eight months pregnant, Parvin Akter, 20, sat near the Farmgate Metro Rail Station with three other women, lifting a polythene bag to her face every few seconds.
14 August 2026
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A walk thru the memories of July

7 August 2026
Hundreds of people gathered outside the July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum from morning as the former Gono Bhaban opened to the public for the first time yesterday.
7 August 2026
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Wait for TCB essentials ends in tragedy

29 July 2026
Forty-five-year-old Nasima Begum, a cleaner, had just sat down for lunch at home during her break when word spread through the neighbourhood that a Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) truck had arrived. She left her food on the plate and went out.
29 July 2026
Mirpur University College wall collapse victim

She skipped lunch to buy affordable rice. A collapsing wall killed her

28 July 2026
45-year-old Nasima Begum was waiting in TCB line when the tragedy struck at Mirpur University College
28 July 2026
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‘We have become living corpses’

21 July 2026
Almost every afternoon, Reshma Karim keeps a plateful of food on the table for her 14-year-old son, as she waits for him to return from school.
21 July 2026
Injured protesters rehabilitation Bangladesh

July uprising survivors: The wounds that nothing can heal

19 July 2026
On August 5, 2024, then a 16-year-old ninth-grader Al Amin Hossain joined thousands of protesters outside BRAC University.
19 July 2026
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Water crisis grips parts of Mirpur

9 July 2026
For the past two months, residents of East Kazipara and Shewrapara in Mirpur have been struggling with recurring water shortages, forcing many families to buy drinking water, depend on water tankers, and wait for hours to cook, bathe, and wash.
9 July 2026
Pallabi child Ramisa murder justice demand

‘A piece of my heart is gone’

2 June 2026
For Abdul Hannan Mollah and his family, this Eid was marked not by celebration, but by an overwhelming sense of loss.
2 June 2026
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Top criminal Sweden Aslam released after 27yrs in jail

Top criminal Sheikh Mohammad Aslam, also known as “Sweden Aslam”, has been released on bail after being in prison for 27 years.
4 September 2024
Tasnim Sarah Priya

‘I want protection’

It was around 1:30pm on April 10 when Tasnim Sarah Priya, 27, a resident of Uttara in the capital, was saying her prayer at their rented house.
30 August 2024
Gazi Tyre factory fire victims

Gazi Tyres Factory: Fire completely doused, families seek missing loved ones

The massive fire at the Gazi Tyres factory in Rupganj, Narayanganj, was completely extinguished at 6:05pm yesterday, after five days.
30 August 2024
student shot during protests

Shot during protests, they now stare at a bleak future

Asif Mahmud, a first-year electrical engineering student at Faridpur Polytechnic Institute, will probably never see the world through his own eyes again.
22 August 2024
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Plunged into darkness

“Help me! I cannot see anything …!” Al Amin Howlader cried moments before he lost consciousness and fell to the ground as police opened fire on quota reform protesters indiscriminately.
18 August 2024
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Will I ever play football again?

Nine-year-old Rifat Howlader got shot when he stepped out of his home in Mirpur-13 to buy some snacks in the evening on July 19.
17 August 2024
BNP influence in Dhaka's largest slum Karail

Control of Dhaka slums, footpaths: Out goes AL, in comes ‘BNP-linked’ group

With a shift in political landscape, new groups are vying for control at some slums and footpaths in Dhaka.
16 August 2024
Shahbagh Police Station has resumed operations on a limited scale, with Ansar and VDP

Police not on the ground

Five days after an uprising toppled the Sheikh Hasina administration, police have not yet resumed their work to ensure public security. 
10 August 2024
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Some relief in kitchen markets

Prices of daily essentials, aside from onions, have started falling in the capital’s kitchen markets over the last three days due to an increase in supply.
9 August 2024
Insecurity grips city as many police stations deserted

Insecurity grips city as many police stations deserted

With many police stations unmanned and arms and ammunition looted, there is a sense of serious insecurity among people in the capital and elsewhere in the country.
6 August 2024
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6-year-old shot while in her father’s arms passes away

The entire neighbourhood of Nayamati in Narayanganj had been praying for the recovery of Riya Gope for the last five days
29 July 2024
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‘Every time he wakes up, he cries out in pain’

Twenty three-year-old Md Yasin, a pickup van helper, was struck by a bullet on July 19, when he went to a nearby grocery store in an alley close to his house.
27 July 2024

'Every time he wakes up, he cries out in pain'

Says father of Yasin who was shot in hip during recent violence
27 July 2024
19-year-old crippled by police shot

19-yr-old crippled as cop shoots him point-blank

As the July 20 mayhem centring on quota protest escalated on Dhaka-Chattogram road in Narayanganj, Mohammad Akash, 19, pulled down the shutters and locked the glass doors of the sweetshop, where he worked, to save his life.
25 July 2024
role of volunteers in saving protest victims

DMCH, volunteers step up to save lives

Md Ismail was waiting for passengers in his battery-powered auto-rickshaw in Jatrabari’s Kajla area on July 18.
25 July 2024
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Patients with bullet, pellet wounds: Dhaka hospitals stretched to the limit

Some of them are teens, some in early 20s  and many are middle-aged men. The one thing common between all of them is that they have been shot either by shotgun pellets or bullets, as police and BGB opened fire at protesters and alleged infiltrators during the recent unrest centring the quota protests.
23 July 2024
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Veggie prices skyrocket amid curfew

Prices of vegetables including potatoes, onions, and green chillies have increased significantly in Dhaka markets due to a supply shortage amid the countrywide curfew.
21 July 2024

‘How many bullets does it take to kill a person, sir?’

Moynal Hossain, a sub-inspector at Razarbagh Police Lines, and his wife were frantically running from one room to another at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, looking for their son Imam Hossain Tayeem, 17, yesterday.
20 July 2024

DMCH morgue never been thicker with grief

The air at Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue was never this thick with grief before yesterday.
20 July 2024
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A brutal day at DMCH

The Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday relapsed into a zone of fears and uncertainties, with hundreds of people arriving with patients wounded in violent clashes that rocked the capital and beyond.
19 July 2024

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