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  • Man crushed under wheels of train

    A man is crushed under the wheels of a train at Karwan Bazar in capital Dhaka.

  • Onion price slightly down, but still high

    Onion prices have come down a little but are still way too high.

  • Sonargaon crossing

    Sonargaon Crossing: Where traffic law is broken every moment

    Police have put up signs warning buses of punishment for stopping near the roundabout at Sonargaon intersection in the capital's Karwan Bazar.

  • Attack on Khaleda at Karwan Bazar

    Probe fails to find AL men!

    The police probe into the 2015 attack on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's motorcade in the city's Karwan Bazar has failed to identify any of the attackers though photographs of many of them were published in the media. The BNP chief's convoy came under attack during a campaign for city corporation election in April. Two and a half years later, her motorcade was attacked twice within only four days this week in Feni.

  • 3 areas in Dhaka face blackout for 7 hours

    Thousands of people in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar, Tejgaon Industrial area and Tejturi Bazar are facing acute power outage for at least seven hours.

  • Call to protect Nazrul’s memorials

    Artists call upon the government to protect all the memorials of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam across the country. They form a human chain in front of Saarc Fountain at Karwan Bazar in Dhaka today, ahead of the 117th birthday of the rebel poet.

  • Fire at Karwan Bazar

    On May 1, a fire completely destroyed 186 shops in Karwan Bazar, causing irrevocable loss to the shopkeepers.

  • Karwan Bazar wholesale market to be shifted: Annisul

    Mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Annisul Huq expresses hope that the wholesale market of Karwan Bazar would be shifted to Jatrabari and Gabtoli within few months.

  • Probe body formed over Karwan Bazar fire

    Fire service has launched a four-member investigation panel into last night's blaze at Karwan Bazar that gutted over 180 shops in capital Dhaka’s largest retail kitchen market.

  • Karwan Bazar blaze tamed after 2 hours

    After two hours of frantic efforts and reinforcement, fire fighters have managed to control the deadly blaze that broke out in Dhaka's largest kitchen market Karwan Bazar.

  • Rajuk in eviction drive at Karwan Bazar amid protest

    Dhaka’s development authority is on an eviction drive in capital’s biggest kitchen market Karwan Bazar. Businessmen have grouped in protest against the drive.

  • Karwan Bazar car parking space cleared

    The authorities of Dhaka North City Corporation in an eviction drive yesterday recovered Karwan Bazar car park from decades-old illegal occupation.

  • Student-cop scuffle at Karwan Bazar

    A scuffle between police and a group of Dhaka University students takes place at Karwan Bazar intersection in Dhaka.

  • Eviction drive at Karwan Bazar

    About a hundred makeshift shops are evicted in a drive at Karwan Bazar kitchen market in Dhaka Thursday ahead of the start of Ramadan month.

  • Sundarban Hotel risky, vacated fearing collapse

    Sundarban Hotel in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar is evacuated fearing collapse after a boundary wall caved in because of an adjacent under-construction site.

  • Beat the heat with summer fruits (Video)

    Summer is the first among the six seasons of Bangladesh. It brings down sweltering heat and many water-borne diseases on the people. But nature has its subtle ways of keeping things at the balance – it offers the juicy and nutritious fruits to beat the heat and diseases in summer.

  • Attack on Khaleda’s motorcade: AL leader sues BNP men

    An Awami League leader files a case while a BNP leader lodges a complaint blaming each other in connection with the attack during BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s election campaign at Karwan Bazar in Dhaka.

  • Again, mass Hilsa fry seized at Karwan Bazar

    Barely a week into a drive that led to seizure of about 7,500kg of Hilsa fry from Karwan Bazar, a huge cache of the baby fish has been seized from the wholesale kitchen market

  • 7,500kg jatka seized at Karwan Bazar

    Rapid Action Battalion seizes 7,500 kg of jatka and fined 11 people Tk 5000 each for selling those at Karwan Bazar wholesale fish market in Dhaka, Rab sources say.

  • 14 hurt in Dhaka crude bomb blasts

    At least 14 people, including a policeman, injure in separate crude bomb explosions in Dhaka

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