Dhaka Division

Commuters urged to avoid Airport Road for 3 days from Thursday evening

Shawdesh Desk: The Dhaka Bus Rapid Transit Company Ltd (Dhaka BRT) authorities have urged the city dwellers to avoid the Airport Road for 72 hours from Thursday evening as traffic

Dhaka’s air in ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’ zone

Shawdesh Desk: Dhaka’s air quality continued to be in the ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’ zone on Wednesday. With an air quality index score of 112 at 8:45am, the metropolis ranked

Missing former BCL leader found dead in Keraniganj

Shawdesh desk: River police have recovered the body of a former leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League’s Jahangirnagar University unit from the River Buriganga in Jajira area of South Keraniganj, five

32 BNP men arrested in Dhaka for ‘conspiring against govt’

Shawdesh desk: Police arrested 32 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, including a former councillor, at Mohakhali’s Sena Kalyan Sangstha Tower on Friday night. Abul Kalam Azad, former ward

AD orders status quo on eviction of illegal structures from Hatirjheel

Shawdesh Desk: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday ordered maintaining status quo on the eviction process of the unauthorised commercial establishments at Hatirjheel-Begunmari project. A five-member bench

Four killed in Faridpur road crash

Shawdesh Desk: At least four people, including a woman and a child, were killed and 10 others injured as bus crashed into a roadside tree in Madhabpur area of the

Dhaka’s air unhealthy for sensitive groups with AQI score of 154

Shawdesh Desk: Dhaka’s air quality remains ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’. With an air quality index score of 154 around 10:00am on Saturday, the metropolis ranked fourth in the list of

Dhaka’s air in ‘unhealthy’ zone with AQI score of 105

Shawdesh desk: Dhaka’s air quality slipped back to the ‘unhealthy’ zone on Wednesday morning. With an air quality index score of 129 at 9:05am, the metropolis ranked 12th in the