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.
Narayanganj-based clothing traders have also been affected by the recent fire in Bangabazar and are passing days in uncertainty as wholesalers and retailers in the popular market in Dhaka owe a significant amount of money to their suppliers.
Thousands of Hindu devotees yesterday performed Ashtami Snan, a ritual of bathing in the holy waters of the Brahmaputra at Langalbandh in Narayanganj.
Organisers of a cultural event in Narayanganj had to cover their banner that read Ekusher Uchcharan, Dur Ho Duhshasan (the pronouncement of 21: get lost, misrule) after police said they would not allow the event to be held with the slogan.
Remember Niazul Islam Khan? On January 16, 2018, he was seen with a gun in the open during a clash in Narayanganj city.
