Bangladesh

Air in Dhaka unhealthy Wednesday morning

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh capital Dhaka’s air quality was marked ‘unhealthy’ Wednesday morning. With an air quality index score of 157 at 9:11 am, Dhaka ranked 9th on the list of

Fire at Shahbagh scrapyard under control

Shawdesh desk: A fire that broke out at the scrapyard behind the Shahbagh police station in Dhaka on Tuesday afternoon has been brought under control. The fire started around 2:45pm

18 houses, two cattle burnt to ashes in another Chattogram fire

Shawdesh desk: At least 18 houses and two cattle were burnt to ash in another devastating fire in Ichhanagar village under Karnaphuli upazila in Chattogram early today. The incident was

Two killed, two injured in Faridpur road accident

Shawdesh desk: Two people were killed and two others were injured in a collision between a pickup van and a motorbike in Boalmari upazila of Faridpur on Tuesday. The deceased

Newlywed woman’s body recovered from husband’s Pallabi home

Shawdesh desk: The body of a newlywed woman was recovered from her residence in Pallabi area in Bangladesh capital Dhaka Sunday evening. The deceased is Mahfuza Motaleb, wife of Aminul

Teenage girl killed, her father injured in Natore road accident

Shawdesh Desk: A schoolgirl died and her father was injured as a truck bit a motorbike on Natore-Bagura highway in Singra upazila of Natore on Monday morning. The deceased was

15 injured as buses-truck collision in Dinajpur

Shawdesh Desk: At least 15 people were injured after two buses and a truck collided in Bochaganj upazila of Dinajpur on Sunday morning. The identities of the deceased could not

Decades of tragedies in Dhaka expose systemic failures

Shawdesh desk: In Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, the history of fire incidents stretches back decades, with each tragedy laying bare the systemic failures of monitoring and enforcement by the