Bangladesh

Despite rain, Dhaka becomes 7th most polluted city

Shawdesh Desk: Dhaka’s air quality continued to be in the ‘unhealthy’ zone this morning. With an air quality index score of 154 at 9:01am, Dhaka ranked 7th on the list

Death toll in Gazipur cylinder blast rises to 17 as one more dies

Shawdesh Desk: The death toll from the gas cylinder blast in Gazipur’s Kaliakair upazila rose to 17 as one more burn victim died early Saturday. The deceased is Kuddus Khan,

10 kidnapped people freed on ransom in Cox’s Bazar

Shawdesh Desk: Ten people including four boys who were kidnapped while working on a hill at Hoaikong Roikhong in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar were freed after payment of Tk

Three people killed in Mymensingh road accident

Shawdesh Desk: Three passengers were killed and four others were injured in a collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Ujanpara in Trishal upazila on

Nor’wester lashes Faridpur

Shawdesh desk: Around hundreds of houses were damaged while a number of trees were uprooted during a nor’wester in Faridpur district early Thursday. Twenty villages under Pachuria and Bana unions

Patients suffer as intern, trainee doctors’ strike on

Shawdesh desk: The intern doctors and private postgraduate trainee physicians continued their indefinite work abstention on Wednesday, affecting health services across the country as the government was yet to meet

Woman found dead at under-construction building in Rajshahi

Shawdesh Desk: Police recovered the stabbed body of a woman from an under-construction house in Gogram area of Godagari upazila in Rajshahi on Wednesday. On information from the local people,

Khulna-Dhaka rail communication restored after seven hours of collision

Shawdesh Desk: Train communication between Khulna and Dhaka was restored on Wednesday morning after seven hours of suspension, following a collision between a cargo train and oil-carrying train at Ishwardi