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Commoners under strain due to food price hike

CHATTOGRAM, July 26: The prices of daily essentials escalated in the port city of Chattogram last week due to countrywide political unrest and a curfew in force.As a result, people on low incomes are spending their days in utter misery for this price spiral.Traders have ascribed this hike to disrupted...

BEA demands fair probe into violence

Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA) demanded on Friday a fair investigation into the violent clashes that happened over the student movement for quota reform in government services.The association also pressed for ensuring exemplary punishment to those responsible for the killing of protesting students and innocent people as well during the countrywide...

Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr A S M Maksud Kamal visited Rokeya Hall and Sir A F Rahman Hall

Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr A S M Maksud Kamal visited Rokeya Hall and Sir A F Rahman Hall of the university in the capital on Friday to see the rooms damaged during the recent anti-quota movement. — Focus Bangla

11 cases filed, 184 arrested over violence in Narsingdi

A total of 11 cases have been filed in connection with the clashes between quota reform protesters and law enforcers, and the looting of weapons from Narsingdi prison, report agencies. Mohammad Mostafizur Rahman, Narsingdi superintendent of police (SP), disclosed this at a press conference at his office on Friday morning.Moreover,...

Two teenagers drown in Kaptai Lake

Two teenage boys have drowned in the Kaptai Lake of Rangamati town, reports bdnews24.com.The two victims are 15-year-old Edison Saha, a tenth grade student from Rangamati Government High School, and Arnob Chowdhury, another student in the same grade at Shah Multipurpose High School."The two were brought to the hospital on...

BAFWWA President Saleha Khan distributed food items among poor and underprivileged people

Bangladesh Air Force Women's Welfare Association (BAFWWA) President Saleha Khan distributed food items among poor and underprivileged people in the areas around Dhaka Cantonment in the capital on Thursday. — ISPR

Dhaka's air quality 'moderate' --

The capital Dhaka ranked 58th on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQ score of 52 at 9:00 am on Friday morning, reports UNB.The air quality was classified as 'moderate', according to the AQI index.When the AQI value for particle pollution is between 50 and...

One dies of dengue -_

One more person died of dengue in the last 24 hours until Friday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 51 this year, reports UNB.During the period, 148 more patients were hospitalised with viral fever, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).Some...

Weather (2024-07-27)

Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Mymensingh, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places over Khulna, Rajshahi, Dhaka and Barishal divisions with moderately heavy falls at places over the country 06:00 pm today (Saturday),...