Three years after the seven-murder incident in Narayanganj, a lower court sentenced 26 people, including a former city councillor and three former Rab officials, to death. The following year, the High Court upheld the death penalty for 15 of them and commuted the sentences for the rest.
AKM Shamim Osman had turned this traditional commercial hub just outside Dhaka into a lawless city with his reign of terror
Barely six months after repairs at a cost of Tk 54 crore, the 11-kilometre Modonpur-Modonganj road in Narayanganj has become dilapidated yet again.
Exactly 12 years have passed since the killing of Tanwir Muhammad Taqi in Narayanganj, yet justice remains elusive, as the investigating body, Rab, has yet to submit the charge sheet to the court.
Matin Khan, 50, a resident of Narayanganj city, has been suffering from a liver complication and wants to travel to India for treatment.
Jakir Hossain, 56, from Sabdi village in Narayanganj’s Bandar upazila, transitioned from a vegetable retailer to a florist nearly two decades ago. Today, he is one of the district’s leading florists, cultivating flowers year-round on 270 decimals of land across Bandar and Sonargaon upazilas.
On a cold winter night, Md Nasir, a resident of Ekrampur, found himself desperately looking for a boat at the wharf. The clock had just struck midnight and no boats were in sigh.
Whenever Amena Begum gets a call from an unknown number, she hopes it would be about her son or younger brother, both of whom went missing when a tyre factory in Narayanganj went up in flames on August 25.
A total of 97 candidates in Chattogram lost their security deposits in the just concluded national election for failing to get one-eighth of the cast votes as per the Election Commission law
Like any other day, Md Hasan was sitting inside the sleeper coach of Cox’s Bazar-bound Bengal Paribahan on Friday night, getting ready to check passengers’ tickets.
Supervisor finds timer IED inside moving bus; informs bomb disposal unit who later defused it
A canal has been filled up with sand in the name of establishing a playground in the Godnail area of Narayanganj City Corporation.
Men, women and children holding buckets, pitchers and gallons waiting in a long queue in front of a tap at a local mosque -- this was what this correspondent saw while vising Ekota Road in Baznapara area under Narayanganj City Corporation on Saturday afternoon.
Nurul Islam used to earn a decent living as a tenant farmer in his village in Narayanganj’s Araihazar upazila. He also reared cattle and caught fish from small waterbodies to make some money on the side.
Soon after the BNP announced its October 28 rally, Salauddin Salo, member secretary of Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal’s Narayanganj unit, left his home to avoid arrest.
Schedule disruptions, non-functional fans and lights, and unhygienic toilets are still a common sight for passengers who travel by train on Dhaka-Narayanganj route, although the Bangladesh Railway has recently increased the fare by Tk 5.
The Criminal Investigation Department of police has submitted the charge sheet in the murder case filed over the July 2021 fire at Hashem Foods Ltd in Narayanganj, which killed 54 people, dropping the names of the company owner and his four sons.
The steel mill factory in Narayanganj where an explosion yesterday left four workers dead and three others injured, had been melting iron for the last six months without approval from authorities, inspection officials said
