Dr Khalilur Rahman has been appointed as the high representative of Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus to address the Rohingya issue and other key priorities. According to a gazette notification issued ...

Eighty per cent of urbanisation is concentrated in Dhaka and Chattogram, with 60% in Dhaka and 20% in Chattogram. The remaining urbanisation is spread across other districts. Only 10% of the houses ...

informs people how clean or polluted the air of a certain city is and what associated health effects might be a concern for them. The AQI in Bangladesh is based on five pollutants — particulate matter ...

A probe into Khan was launched in February 2023 after Commissioner Christine Wilson announced her resignation from the FTC in protest of Khals alleged abuse of the agency. Wilson excoriated Khan in a ...

The acting principal and vice-principal of Dhaka City College, along with two other teachers, have been declared unwanted by students. This decision follows student protests demanding the removal of ...

Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 4th on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 177 at 9:00am on Wednesday morning. Wednesday’s air was ...

Once the Dhaka-Jashore line is opened, they will increase the trips of the Sundarban Express. The inter-city train will leave Dhaka for Khulna twice daily and from Khulna to Dhaka twice per day as ...

PEOPLE POWER: Protesters at ousted PM Sheikh Hasina’s house in Dhaka, Aug. 5. (Photo: AFP) When the interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus took over a violence-stricken Bangladesh on ...

Hasnat Abdullah and Sarjis Alam, two of the top leaders of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, intervened and asked the protesters to leave, promising that a change would come in two days, the ...

In Rangpur city, students from various educational institutions staged a protest rally last night on the same grounds. Around 10:45pm, the protesters under the banner of Anti-Discrimination ...

How do climate migrants in Dhaka endanger the city’s social and cultural ecosystems? People, especially migrants and disaster victims, are struggling as a result of unemployment, health risks, ...

Tanjeel Islam Tameem, broadcast designer of a Bangladeshi television channel, was allegedly beaten to death at the beginning of this month in Dhaka. An investigation by the police later found the ...