Dipan Nandy

Staff Reporter, The Daily Star

A road to suffering

Sajjadul Kabir, a private company employee, has to commute to Motijheel’s Shapla Chattar area every day from Old Dhaka’s Dhalkanagar.

11h ago

Tk 6cr Rajuk building lies vacant for 3yrs

Constructed at an expense of Tk 6 crore, the 10-storey Hatirjheel Car Parking and Management Building of the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha has been lying vacant for three years.

11h ago

Cops clueless about Bacchu’s whereabouts

Law enforcers have no idea where former BASIC Bank chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu is even though a Dhaka court has so far issued 52 warrants for him in as many cases since February 28.

11h ago

Jahanara Imam Memorial Museum to become part of national museum on Saturday

The Shaheed Janani Jahanara Imam Memorial Museum will officially become a branch of the Bangladesh National Museum from Saturday onwards

1w ago

First heatwave, now water crisis

Amid the severe heat wave, there is an acute water crisis in various areas of the capital.

1w ago

Got waste? Sell it to DNCC

The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has initiated a pilot project aimed at tackling the dengue outbreak by purchasing discarded items that are left in the open.

1w ago

Seventh grader killed by DSCC garbage truck

A 13-year-old schoolboy was killed after being run over by a garbage truck of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) in the city’s Madinabagh area on Thursday night.

1w ago

Karwan Bazar: Wholesale market relocation starts this month

The relocation of Karwan Bazar, the largest wholesale market hub in the capital, is likely to start by the end of this month.

3w ago
May 9, 2024
May 9, 2024

Cops clueless about Bacchu’s whereabouts

Law enforcers have no idea where former BASIC Bank chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu is even though a Dhaka court has so far issued 52 warrants for him in as many cases since February 28.

May 9, 2024
May 9, 2024

Tk 6cr Rajuk building lies vacant for 3yrs

Constructed at an expense of Tk 6 crore, the 10-storey Hatirjheel Car Parking and Management Building of the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha has been lying vacant for three years.

May 9, 2024
May 9, 2024

A road to suffering

Sajjadul Kabir, a private company employee, has to commute to Motijheel’s Shapla Chattar area every day from Old Dhaka’s Dhalkanagar.

May 1, 2024
May 1, 2024

Jahanara Imam Memorial Museum to become part of national museum on Saturday

The Shaheed Janani Jahanara Imam Memorial Museum will officially become a branch of the Bangladesh National Museum from Saturday onwards

May 1, 2024
May 1, 2024

First heatwave, now water crisis

Amid the severe heat wave, there is an acute water crisis in various areas of the capital.

April 29, 2024
April 29, 2024

Got waste? Sell it to DNCC

The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has initiated a pilot project aimed at tackling the dengue outbreak by purchasing discarded items that are left in the open.

April 27, 2024
April 27, 2024

Seventh grader killed by DSCC garbage truck

A 13-year-old schoolboy was killed after being run over by a garbage truck of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) in the city’s Madinabagh area on Thursday night.

April 18, 2024
April 18, 2024

Karwan Bazar: Wholesale market relocation starts this month

The relocation of Karwan Bazar, the largest wholesale market hub in the capital, is likely to start by the end of this month.

April 7, 2024
April 7, 2024

Bailey Road Fire: Leaking gas, shorted electric kettle to blame

The deadly fire at the Green Cozy Cottage shopping mall on the capital’s Bailey Road, which claimed 46 lives on February 29, originated from an electric short circuit at a kettle on the ground floor café named “Cha Chumuk”.

April 6, 2024
April 6, 2024

Southern Routes: Bus operators charging extra ahead of Eid

Sirajul Islam, a businessman from Dhaka’s Rayerbagh, was waiting for a BRTC bus in Fulbaria bus terminal area around 3:30pm yesterday. He would travel to Barishal with his wife and two sons.

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