Shaheen Mollah

A tourist police constable beat his wife in broad daylight on the streets in the capital's Green Road on Saturday. As the woman screamed for help, the constable told onlookers that she was mad.

It was around 11:00am on Eid-day. Mohammad Saiful Islam was frantically looking for a doctor at the child medicine ward of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) as the time for medication of his two-year-old son had been over some two hours back.

The extortion is going on in the capital in the name of Eid tips.

Prices of meat and big fish have gone up in city kitchen markets with the Eid-ul-Fitr round the corner.

While police suspect the death of a woman and her three children in Turag was triggered by financial hardship, locals say the family used to live an affluent life once and went broke after losing Tk 50 lakh in an MLM business.

Over three months ago, Hridoy, an alleged drug addict, found a travel bag while fishing in a canal near Sector-5 of Purbachal Residential Area in Narayanganj. Much to his astonishment, he discovered eight submachine guns (SMGs) in the bag.

Today is June 3. It might be just another day for most of the people, but for the residents of Old Dhaka's Nimtoli, the day is a reminder of the horror of a devastating fire on this night in 2010 that claimed 124 lives, mostly women and children, and injured more than 200.

Patients across the country suffered a lot yesterday as doctors refrained from work at private healthcare facilities protesting vandalism

Harassment of citizens seeking justice by the officer-in-charge of the city's Banani Police Station is nothing new. Instead of serving the

On the midnight of April 26, Jahir Uddin complained of severe chest pain at Dhaka Central Jail. The jail authorities decided to take him to DMCH since the hospital inside the jail does not have facilities to tackle any emergency situation.

Relatives abandoned the body of a garment worker, who committed suicide, at the Dhaka Medical College morgue yesterday saying they could not afford her burial cost.

The body of a garment worker, who allegedly committed suicide early today, is left abandoned in Dhaka Medical College morgue as her relatives are unwilling to take responsibility of the burial, citing financial constraint.

Used syringes, bandages, plastic bottles and leftovers litter the pitch-black water of an open stinky drain surrounding a building. If you have a closer look, you may also discover human faeces floating at a place or two.

Thirty-year-old Belal Uddin was clueless about the lurking danger. With an iron rod, he was removing bricks at a construction site in Munshiganj's Gazaria area on January 13.

Ferdousi Begum was brought to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital (SSMCH) in Dhaka after doctors at a local clinic at Jalkuri in Narayanganj tried everything they could think of to alleviate her chest pain but failed.

The militants at Atia Mahal were expert bomb makers and the Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) found in the Sylhet den were all homemade, investigators have said.

It was nothing less than a new lease of life for Ujjwal Chakraborty and for his wife Kanta Bhattacharya, who had been trapped inside Atia Mahal in Sylhet city.

People living in the surrounding areas of the militant den at “Atia Mahal” in Sylhet city were passing hard days after authorities cut off power and gas connections there to facilitate the raid on the hideout.

Two more militants were killed in the army-led operation at Atia Mahal in Sylhet city with the four-day siege to the terrorist hideout drawing to an end yesterday.

Police are yet to identify the “serial killer” who in the span of less than two months murdered three women and injured two other females in the capital's Dakkhin Khan area last year.