Police recovered the body of a 40-year-old man from the bank of the DND Lake in Siddhirganj, Narayanganj, on Thursday morning. The deceased was identified as Tapan Shil, a resident of the Mizmizi Alamin Nagar area of Siddhirganj. He worked at a local salon. His family home is in the Sitakunda area of Chattogram. The […]

The cost of the third phase of Dhaka WASA’s Sayedabad Water Treatment Plant project has risen sharply, prompting questions over the justification for the increase and the process through which successive revisions were approved. The project was initially approved at a cost of Tk4,597 crore. Its estimated expenditure was later raised to Tk7,518 crore in […]

Angry CNG-powered auto-rickshaw drivers staged a road blockade on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Trishal, Mymensingh, demanding an uninterrupted supply of natural gas to run their vehicles. The demonstration began around 10:30 am on Wednesday (2 September), when driver groups halted their vehicles at the Kakchor Road intersection. The protest effectively paralyzed traffic along the eastern […]

An unidentified woman, believed to be around 40 years of age, lost her life in the early hours of Wednesday following a road traffic collision on the Mayor Hanif Flyover in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area. The fatal hit-and-run occurred at approximately 5:30 am along the inbound lane leading from Dholairpar towards Jatrabari. Police officers arrived at […]