Old-Dhaka

The Fire Service brought a fire under control at a warehouse in Mansur Khan Plaza in Chawkbazar in Old Dhaka. The fire was brought under control at 5:20 am on Tuesday after efforts by 11 units. Two firefighters fell ill due to smoke inhalation while extinguishing the fire and carrying out rescue operations. They are receiving treatment in the emergency department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Kazi Nazmuzzaman, assistant director of the Fire Service, confirmed that the fire had been b...

Every year, somewhere between the azan calling the city to Fajr prayer and the first rickshaw bell of the morning, Dhaka quietly adds another year to its age. This year the number is 416, a figure historians trace back to around 1610, when the city was raised from a river town into the provincial capital of the Bengal Subah under the Mughal Empire. It is a number too large to hold in the mind all at once. Four centuries and more of monsoons, conquerors, traders, poets, rickshaw pullers and...