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Implement nine directives to stop Dhaka’s air pollution
30 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Air pollution
Bangladesh saw 2.25 lakh deaths from air pollution in 2022: Lancet report
29 October 2025, 14:40 PM
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Over 2.7 lakh deaths linked to air pollution in 2023
22 October 2025, 00:00 AM
Air pollution
Dhaka air turns unhealthy even before dry season
21 October 2025, 18:07 PM
Air pollution
Nearly two children die every hour in Bangladesh due to air pollution: study
16 October 2025, 01:31 AM
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Bangladeshis losing 5.5 years to toxic air
28 August 2025, 18:10 PM
Air pollution
Dhaka’s air ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’ this morning
9 May 2025, 04:25 AM
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Dhaka’s air ‘unhealthy’ even on weekend
2 May 2025, 04:58 AM
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India extends $1b credit by $62m
India today announced to increase the cash amount of the $1 billion credit line for Bangladesh that was given mostly to boost connectivity.
5 August 2015, 06:30 AM
Meet the Facebook reporters of India-Bangladesh enclaves
A group of "Facebook reporters" have been the main source of information from the enclaves of India and Bangladesh in the past few years.
1 August 2015, 15:53 PM
17 firefighters punished for assaulting freedom fighter
Station in-charge of Parbatipur Fire Station in the district was suspended while 16 other firefighters were stand released yesterday on
30 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Trespasser in one’s own country
It was like any other mundane day for Aziza Rahman, the sixty-year-old man - except that he landed in jail.
Life in the enclaves has little variations. You get up in the morning, if you have land to cultivate, then you go there and do the job.
30 July 2015, 09:28 AM
Cop held while selling Yaba in Cox's Bazar
Police detained a police constable allegedly for selling Yaba tablets and seized 23,000 tablets from his possession in Kalatoli area of the
28 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Rajon killing: Jalalabad OC suspended
Police authorities suspend Alamgir Hossain, officer-in-charge (investigation) of Jalalabad Police Station, after a probe report found negligence of law enforcers in arresting killers of 13-year-old Samiul Alam Rajon.
27 July 2015, 11:27 AM
Potol cultivation takes off in Pirojpur
Lankeshor Singha of Uttar Baniary village in Nazirpur upazila under the district has seen success in growing potol, or pointed gourd, cultivating the vegetable for the first time in the area this year.
23 July 2015, 18:00 PM
French President greets Yunus
President of France Francois Hollande greets Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, now in Paris.
21 July 2015, 13:32 PM
Eid: In agony, family misses Rajon
For the first time, Eid brings no joy to the family of Rajon, the 13-year-old boy who was beaten to death brutally in broad day light in northeastern city of Sylhet.
19 July 2015, 17:39 PM
Detectives in Bangladesh seize 1,200kg explosive materials
Detectives have seized 1,200 kgs of explosive materials during separate raids in Dhaka and Chittagong and arrested four people in this connection.
6 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Photojournalist denied bail
A Sylhet court yesterday rejected a bail petition of photojournalist Idris Ali in blogger Ananta Bijoy Das murder case.
17 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Prof Iftekhar new CU VC
Eminent social scientist Prof Iftekhar Uddin Chowdhury is appointed as the Vice Chancellor (VC) of Chittagong University (CU).
3 June 2015, 11:00 AM
What an amazing feat! (video)
He moves and bends any way he likes, it is just amazing! A Facebook amateur video shows the Bangladeshi man flexing his entire body with a unique set of skills.
23 May 2015, 08:28 AM
Classes suffer as school field used for threshing paddy
Students of Uttar Deshibai Chourangi Government Primary School in Jaldhaka upazila under the district are facing health hazard as local farmers are threshing newly harvested boro paddy on the school ground, causing air pollution.
12 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Passage of land bill huge diplomatic success of govt: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina terms the adoption of the much-talked-about constitution amendment bill on Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) with Bangladesh by Indian Rajya Sabha a huge diplomatic success of the present government.
7 May 2015, 13:04 PM
Air Quality Index for cities in offing
The government has decided to introduce a national Air Quality Index (AQI) to identify the level of air pollution in the country's cities.
3 May 2015, 18:00 PM
4 killed in Habiganj road crash
Four people including a one-year-old baby are killed and three injured as a tractor rammed a battery-run three-wheeler in Habiganj Sadar upazila.
8 April 2015, 04:34 AM
Singapore teen in court over anti-Lee Kuan Yew video
A Singaporean teenager arrested for posting an expletive-laden YouTube video attacking the country's late founding leader Lee Kuan
31 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Three houses vandalised in Sunamganj, 4 injured
At least four people were injured as a land grabber attacked three Hindu families at Rawli village in Chhatak upazila of Sunamganj
23 March 2015, 18:00 PM