Charred building endures memories of victim kids
The charred building of Milestone School and College was standing in choked desolation.
Manik Miazee
Senior reporter
Manik Miazee, a Dhaka based award-winning journalist having in-depth experiences in investigative journalism within the South Asian nations. He started his career in The Daily Mirror followed by joining in the Dhaka Tribune as Senior Journalist as a multimedia journalist in 2013.
He worked as a journalism trainer with Internews and had been a guest trainer in Counter Trafficking program with USAID and IOM. He contributes as a resource person to the Dhaka International University's course on Rohingya refugees. Miazee also worked as freelancer with different organizations including Cable News Network (CNN), The Times and The Guardian.
Panic still grips Uttara residents after deadly plane crash
A heart-wrenching plane crash has shaken the Diabari area of Uttara, Dhaka. Around 1:00 PM on Monday, a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft lost control and crashed directly onto the campus of Milestone School and College. According to a statement by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), 20 people have been confirmed dead, and over a hundred others injured, most of them students. The pilot, Lieutenant Tawkir, was also killed, and 171 injured victims are currently undergoing treatment at various hospitals. The area was immediately engulfed in grief and panic, with smoke thickening the air and the wreckage strewn with scorched clothing and schoolbags. Even hours after the incident, the shock remains palpable across the Uttara neighborhood of the capital.
Nurjahan Mosque: 300 years without a single call to prayer
As the sun leans westward and prepares to set, marking the beginning of Maghrib prayers, silence blankets the aged structure of the Nurjahan Mosque. No call to prayer echoes from within, no congregants gather to worship. For three hundred years, not once has this mosque resounded with the azan, nor has a single rak’ah of salat been performed within its walls. Built from lime, surki, and burnt bricks, this eerie, silent monument stands as a haunting witness to a forgotten history. Officially known as the Nurjahan Mosque, locals more commonly refer to it as “Nati Bibi’s Mosque.”
Burial of mother, 2 children uncertain, no case filed yet
Even before public outrage could subside over the incident of a woman being stripped and tortured on video in Cumilla’s Muradnagar, yet another horrific event has shaken the nation. In the same upazila, a mother, her son, and daughter were brutally beaten to death by a mob in broad daylight. Shockingly, more than 24 hours after the murders, no case has been filed with the police.
Muradnagar 'rape' victim falls prey to village supremacy combat
Locally influencial Fazor Ali reportedly raped a woman in Muradnagar upazila of Cumilla on June 26. As the incident unfolded, some local men not only assaulted Fazor but also brutally beat the victim up. Eventually, they stripped and filmed the incident, later circulating the video on Facebook.
How Atulprasad Sen’s ancestral home becomes 'Munshi Bari'
The name Atulprasad Sen shines brightly in the history of Bengali culture, music, and poetry. A legendary composer and lyricist of Bengali songs, Atulprasad was born in the village of Magur in the Bijhari Union of Naria Upazila, Shariatpur district. The iconic song “Moder Gorob Moder Asha, A-Mori Bangla Bhasha” — which inspired the Language Movement of 1952 — was written by him. But the very house in which he was born, where he spent his childhood and adolescence, is no longer known by his name. Today, it is known as ‘Munshi Bari’.
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