Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) launches a cleanliness campaign in the offices of its all units and adjacent areas in Dhaka to control the dengue outbreak.

Scientists of Atomic Energy Research Establishment under the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) have developed an effective method of controlling aedes mosquitoes which transmits dengue virus.

At least 29 Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrims have died so far from different health complications in Saudi Arabia since July 4.

The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) has cancelled leave of officials and staff of all city corporations and municipalities across the country to prevent the dengue outbreak.

​Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader alleges that BNP is doing politics with the ongoing dengue outbreak across the country.

Imagine that time when people had no social media and everyone was filled with doubts whether they would get a second chance to meet their dearest friend once they parted ways at the end of their school year. Well, gone are those days. Thanks to social media, we can now stay in touch with our beloved friends, even years after school ends and it is a far memory.

Akhil Chandra Bhowmik and Karuna Kishore Chakraborty have been nominated as president and general secretary respectively of the executive committee of Vivekananda Shikkha o Sangskriti Parishad, a social welfare organisation.

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A murder case was filed early yesterday against the stalker who stabbed the father of a bride to death and seriously injured her mother in the capital’s Moghbazar on Thursday.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday called upon people to remain calm, saying that the process of bringing effective insecticide to eliminate Aedes mosquitoes is underway.

Nagorik Oikya yesterday slammed the government’s negligence in preventing dengue outbreak, easing the sufferings of flood affected people, stopping rape and food adulteration.

The High Court has observed that there is no bar in the law of the land to the marriage between a groom and a bride of higher and lower castes.

A mobile court seized around three lakh shrimp fries from a bus on Chattogram-Dhaka highway in Sitakunda upazila on Thursday.

Eminent doctors have called upon city dwellers to remain extra-cautious while celebrating Eid-ul-Azha outside Dhaka, as they feared that the disease may spread in rural areas during the upcoming vacation.

Low turnout marked the last day of advance train ticket sale for Eid-ul-Azha at Chattogram Railway Station yesterday.

Speakers at a human chain yesterday urged the government to declare “national disaster” because of the recent spike in mosquito-borne dengue disease all over the country.

A railway employee infected with dengue died at a hospital in Noakhali yesterday, said family.

I saw it one winter morning when I was on my way to Kalenga forest. Resting on a slim bamboo that floated on a small pond of murky yellow water was a snake. It was soaking in the soft, warm winter sunshine and its bright yellow skin, offset by a black pattern, glistened like gold in the morning light.

Centre for Research, Testing and Consultancy (CRTC) of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust) upgraded its commercial services to automated lab management system.

For more than two years, residents of Madhya Badda have been enduring water crisis. The situation persists particularly in Post Office Road area, one of the densely populated parts of Badda, where over 2,000 people live.