Bangladesh

City flyovers, footbridges unsafe at night

Shawdesh Desk: Most of the flyovers and footbridges in the capital have turned risky and unsuitable for use by vehicles and pedestrians for lack of proper maintenance by the authorities

Dhaka’s air quality still ‘unhealthy’

Shawdesh Desk: Dhaka’s air quality is ‘unhealthy’, but that’s good news. This is because the densely populated capital is no longer the world’s worst most polluted city — it has

Sylhet-3 MP Mahmud Samad Chowdhury dies of Covid-19

Shawdesh Desk: Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury, MP for Sylhet-3 constituency, died of Covid-19 at a hospital in the capital on Thursday. He breathed his last at around 2:00pm at United

Bashundhara chairman – a rare bighearted person

Shawdesh Desk: I often suffered from cold, sore throat and ear infections in my school life. Then I thought when I will grow up, I will become a doctor to

University student killed by ‘wild elephant’ in Rangamati

Shawdesh Desk: A student of Bangladesh University of Textiles (BUTEX) was trampled to death by a wild elephant attack in Kamillachari union under Kaptai upazila of Rangamati on Thursday morning.

Narayanganj fire: One more burn victim dies

Shawdesh Desk: A man, who sustained burn injured in a fire caused by leaky gas lines on the top floor of a six-storey building at Masdair in Fatullah of Narayanganj,

2 to die for killing college teacher in Khulna

Shawdesh Desk: A Khulna court on Thursday sentenced two men to death for killing a college teacher in 2017 in Khulna. Judge Saifuzzaman of Khulna Public Security Disruption Crime Suppression

BNP’s protest rally today, venue shifted from Mohammadpur to Khilgaon

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will arrange a protest rally in Khilgaon Taltola of the capital today demanding neutral election and cancellation of Digital Security Act. The protest rally