Dhaka Division

Dhaka’s air quality ‘hazardous’

Shawdesh DEsk: Dhaka, one the most polluted cities in the world, ranked worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Monday morning. It had a score of 323 at 10:35

13.8 degrees Celsius temperature recorded in capital

Shawdesh Desk: Dhaka recorded its lowest temperature 13.8 degrees Celsius for this season on Sunday. The temperature may remain unchanged in the capital. A mild to moderate cold wave is

‘Drug peddler’ held with 40,000 Yaba pills in city

Shawdesh desk: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 40,000 pieces of Yaba pills which he was carrying in a cattle-laden truck in capital’s Darussalam area

Child murders on the rise amid pandemic

Shawdesh desk: Incidents of child murder have seen a rise in the country for various reasons, including enmity, family feud and pandemic-induced frustration and depression. The country witnessed 580 child

3 killed as truck rams auto-rickshaw in Kishoreganj

Shawdesh Desk: Three people were killed and two others injured after a truck rammed an auto-rickshaw in Kalikaprosad Nayahati area in Bhairab upazila of Kishoreganj on Thursday noon. The identities

Man held with 130 gold bars at Dhaka Airport

Shawdesh Desk: Customs officials arrested a man with 130 gold bars, weighing 15 kg, from the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Tuesday night. The arrestee was identified as Lutfur Rahman

Youth’s body found in Gazipur

Shawdesh Desk: Police recovered the body of an unidentified young man from Safaishree area of Kapasia upazila in Gazipur on Sunday noon. Details about the deceased, age around 35, could

92pc ICU beds filled with corona patients at govt hospitals in Dhaka

Shawdesh Desk: Ninety two percent of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds in government dedicated corona hospitals in the capital are filled with corona patients, leaving no scope for new patients