Fear lingers after New Gini attack
More than a week after an attack on the New Gini Properties housing project at Manikdi, near ECB Chattar in Dhaka, residents say they are still uneasy. Construction across most of the site has stopped, and of the project's four gates only one remains open.
Homes await staffers, seniors await care
Eight state-built residential homes for elderly citizens, one in each division, have stood finished and empty since construction wrapped up in June 2024. Each Shanti Nibash was designed to accommodate 200 residents. None has yet admitted anyone.
Crackdown on teen gangs to go nationwide
Police have been ordered to widen operations against teen gangs beyond Dhaka and into districts across the country, following a run of violent property seizures in the capital and two killings of teenagers in as many weeks.
As Bangladesh ages, support systems fall behind
Naharul Ahmed is 72. He ran a depot for a Gazipur chemicals company for over two and a half decades, and when that job ended in 2010 there was no pension waiting at the other side of it, nor benefits of any other kind. What makes his position worth describing
PM led 30 major events at UNGA
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman led 30 major programmes during Bangladesh's participation in the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, eight of them centred on the UN itself, according to a briefing given in Dhaka on Wednesday.
Beatmosphere to take Bangladesh to Eurovision Asia
Bangladesh will take part in the Eurovision Song Contest Asia for the first time, and the act carrying the country into the competition is Beatmosphere, an a cappella group that won a national selection broadcast on NTV.
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