Zia Chowdhury

Zia Chowdhury is a Staff Correspondent at The Business Standard with a wealth of experience in reporting on human rights violations, law enforcement affairs, accidents, fires, and crimes. He can be reached at zianews24@gmail.com

Features

Tintin: My childhood friend who inspired me to be a reporter

Dibakar has been looking for his sister since the fire incident occurred on Benapole Express on 5 January. Photo: Zia Chowdhury/TBS

Bangladesh

Benapole Express fire: Relatives cling to hope for missing loved ones

Bangladesh

Calls grow for quieter New Year, free of firecrackers, sky lanterns

Amrina, her husband and her daughter. Photo: Collected

Bangladesh

Khilkhet SUV accident: Amrina always followed road safety rules. She still perished

Lieutenant General Waker-Uz-Zaman, principal staff of the army, and Election Commission Secretary Jahangir Alam briefed media after a meeting on army deployment during the upcoming election. Photo: Collected

Bangladesh

JS polls: Army likely to be deployed on 29 December for 13 days

Families of arrested BNP gathered in front of the National Press Club on 28 November. Photo: TBS

Bangladesh

Families submit memo to chief justice, demand release of opposition leaders

Instead of a celebratory atmosphere, there was an attitude of plain indifference towards the election. File Photo: TBS

Bangladesh

Police to vet political affiliation of polling officials

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi leads a procession march in Motijheel on Sunday, 12 November 2023. Photo: Collected

Bangladesh

New reality of BNP flash processions: Gather, take photos, and wrap up in two mins

Men armed with wood pieces and stones vandalise a card in the Akbar Shah police station area on Dhaka-Chattogram highway on 31 October 2023, the first day of the nationwide 72-hour blockade demanding the resignation of the government. Photo: Mohammad Minhaj Uddin

Politics

A day of violence and death: Four dead, hundreds arrested on first day of blockade

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was detained by the DB branch of the DMP on 29 October from his Gulshan residence. Photo: BNP Media Cell

Politics

BNP faces mass arrests, Fakhrul sent to jail

Politics

1,200 partymen arrested ahead of rally: BNP

Shops remained upon even with the flood waters intruding into the markets. Photo: Rajib Dhar

Bangladesh

Nonstop rain disrupts lives across country, will continue till Sunday

Crime