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Garment worker rammed by truck dies in Gazipur, protesters block highway

Dhaka, May 6 -- A textile worker has died in a road accident in Gazipur's Gacha on Tuesday morning, leading to protests that brought traffic to a standstill on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway. The incid... Read More


Hasnat attack: Police detain 54 suspects in overnight drives

Dhaka, May 5 -- Police have detained 54 people in connection with an attack on the car of the Chief Organiser of the National Citizen Party's (NCP) South unit Hasnat Abdullah, who was left bloodied in... Read More


Fire guts 20 fabric waste warehouses, yarn factory in Gazipur in two hours

Dhaka, May 3 -- A fire that broke out at a "jhut", or waste fabric warehouse in Gazipur's Konabari has been brought under control after burning through around 20 small and large jhut storage units and... Read More


Fabric scrap factory in Gazipur catches fire, spreads to nearby buildings

Dhaka, May 3 -- A "jhut", or waste fabric warehouse in Gazipur has caught on fire, spreading to nearby residential buildings. Six units of the Fire Service were deployed to bring the fire under contr... Read More


Mother arrested after siblings, aged 6 and 4, found murdered in Tongi flat

Dhaka, April 19 -- Police have arrested a woman on suspicion of killing her two young children at a rented flat in Gazipur's Tongi. Aleya Begum, 30, was taken into custody on Friday night, Gazipur Me... Read More


Bloodied bodies of brother, sister found in Tongi flat

Dhaka, April 18 -- Police have recovered the blood-soaked bodies of two children who were siblings from a flat at a multi-storey building in Gazipur's Tongi. The victims, Maliha, 6, and Abdullah, 4, ... Read More