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Dhaka ranks 4th in global list of cities with worst air quality

Dhaka, Nov. 2 -- Dhaka ranked fourth among cities with the worst air quality in the world on Monday morning, recording an Air Quality Index (AQI) score of 165 at 10:20am. The city's air quality was c... Read More


Workers' unrest: Jatiya Shramik Shakti warns against using force on workers

Dhaka, Nov. 2 -- Jatiya Shramik Shakti on Monday demanded a minimum monthly wage of Tk 30,000 for garment workers and warned the government against using force to suppress the ongoing workers' movemen... Read More


TIB report on female representation misleading: Jamaat

Dhaka, Nov. 2 -- e-Islami Secretary General Mia Golam Porwar on Monday strongly condemned and rejected a Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) report, terming its claim of zero female participat... Read More


Highway blocked for 3 hours as students protest former student's death

Mymensingh, Nov. 2 -- Students of Notre Dame College blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway for three hours on Monday, protesting the death of a former student in a road crash and demanding the cancella... Read More


26-foot road being built in Gandaria's Ghuntighar after drug den clearance: Ishraque

Dhaka, Nov. 2 -- foot-wide road is being constructed in the Ghuntighar area of Gandaria in the capital following the eviction of drug dens, with the removal of illegal structures along the railway lin... Read More


4 robbers detained after posing as DB officers in Feni

Feni, Nov. 2 -- Police arrested four members of a robber gang while they were attempting to commit a robbery posing as Detective Branch (DB) officers at Dakshin Bazar in Daganbhuiyan upazila of Feni o... Read More


12 buses held at JU after Itihas Paribahan conductor attempts to harass female student

JU, Nov. 2 -- Students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) detained 12 buses of Itihas Paribahan on Monday over allegations that a bus worker tried to physically harass a female student and behaved rudel... Read More


Acting Foreign Minister joins Commonwealth FMs' meeting ahead of CHOGM-2026

Dhaka, Nov. 2 -- Acting Foreign Minister Humaiun Kobir on Monday joined the Foreign Ministers and Heads of Delegation of Commonwealth nations to discuss progress made by different Commonwealth bodies ... Read More


UNB Bogura Correspondent Abul Kalam Azad passes away

Bogura, Nov. 2 -- Abul Kalam Azad, Bogura correspondent of the United News of Bangladesh (UNB), died in the early hours of Monday. He was 55. Azad breathed his last at around 2:30am while being taken... Read More


Two killed in bike collision in Faridpur

Faridpur, Nov. 2 -- Two young men were killed and two others injured in a head-on collision between two motorcycles on the elevated section of the Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga Expressway in Bhanga upazila of Far... Read More