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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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Dhaka Medical College Hospital: Outsiders often do some tasks meant for docs, nurses

More than 200 outsiders with no qualifications whatsoever provide various services to patients at Dhaka Medical College Hospital for money, sources said.
24 September 2016
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Outsider meddles with drug; DMCH patient dies

A patient died in Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday, after a non-professional person allegedly administered a drug into the
23 September 2016
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Reckless driving takes couple's lives in city

Seventy-year-old ABM Ataur Rahman and his wife were waiting on a footpath at the East Sheorapara bus stand in the capital to
15 September 2016
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A budding life cruelly cut short

Ramzan Hossain and Tania Hossain had dreamt of raising their eldest daughter to become a doctor one day and so left no stone unturned to ensure that the girl got good educational foundation.
29 August 2016

Two die in hit-and-run in Banani

A youth ran over and killed a bicycle rider with his car and killed another person trying to run from the scene at Banani in the capital yesterday morning.
20 August 2016

7-yr-old son shows signs of mental trauma

The seven-year-old boy who witnessed the brutal murder of his mother Mahmuda Khanam Mitu in Chittagong last month is now
15 July 2016
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Jailed 'militants' under watch

Convicted and suspected militants from different jails have been shifted to the central jails across the country as part of an intensified security measure.
12 July 2016
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Inpatients allege service delay at 3 public hospitals

Many of the inpatients in three public hospitals of the capital suffered amidst the absence of most of the doctors and
9 July 2016

Back from the jaws of death

It was a pleasant evening at the exquisitely decorated restaurant in Gulshan, with guests eating their favourite cuisine.
3 July 2016

Victim in jail, 'culprit' on bail

An alleged stalker and his mother tried to frame a family in an acid violence case for protesting the harassment of their college-going daughter at the capital's Lalbagh.
22 June 2016
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Slum fire devastates lives in capital

Nur Banu has been working tirelessly as a domestic help for the last one year saving up along with her street vendor husband
4 May 2016
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84-year-old saved by his daughter

A loud bang and shaking of ground woke her up around 1:30am on Friday at her fourth-floor apartment in the six-storey building in
19 March 2016
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Now squabbles over settlement money grips family

Some of the family members of four-year-old Jihad who died after falling into a deep well shaft on December 2014, in the capital's Shahjahanpur, are squabbling over the settlement money they had received and denying the agreement of withdrawing the case against the two accused.
13 February 2016

Unidentified bodies left at morgue for four months

Two unidentified non-Muslim corpses at Dhaka Medical College mortuary could not be handed over to any charity for their burial or cremation even after about four months due to the lack of non-Muslim charities.
11 February 2016
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Family on verge of starvation

Shomrat Shajahan Shaju, 30, is a rickshaw-puller who lives in Kalyanpur slum with his wife and two daughters came
10 February 2016
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Down in dumps

The day labourer had thought of spending the whole day yesterday with his youngest son as he took a day off. But he had no idea that it would be the last day of his son's life.
3 February 2016

Miracle boy suffers minor head injury, leg fracture

Miracle boy turns three-day-old today.
2 February 2016

Heartbreaking reunion

Last time Munni's parents saw her, she was only nine-years old.
25 January 2016
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Deafening silence

"When I felt bad, I would hum songs. Sonali was small then, a primary school girl, and she would repeat my songs," said her father Zakir Hossain, a house painter.
17 January 2016
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DMCH limps

Two CT scanners of Dhaka Medical College Hospital are out of order, causing serious disruption to patient services.
18 December 2015

Pagination

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