Day: August 1, 2022

Local people set a microbus on fire as a schoolboy was injured when the microbus hit an auto-rickshaw on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj district on Monday.Quoting local people, Azizul Haque, officer-in-charge of Araihazar Poli...

Two children drowned at Subidpur and Toragor villages in Hajiganj upazila on Sunday.In Subidpur, a seven-year-old girl drowned in a pond while plucking water lily at Sibidpur Uttar Para in the upazila.The deceased was identified as Sumaiya Akter, daugh...

UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) have called on governments, donors, civil society, and the private sector to step up efforts to prioritize investing in breastfeeding support policies and programmes, especially in fragile and food insecur...

One more person died from Covid, and 349 tested positive for the virus in Bangladesh in the 24 hours to Monday.While the country's total fatalities reached 29,292, the new number took its caseload to 2,005,606, according to the Directorate General of H...

Another 87 dengue patients were hospitalised across the country in 24 hours till Monday morning, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).Among them, 66 patients were hospitalised in Dhaka while the 21 in other places, it said.As ...

Two people were killed when a truck rammed a covered van on Dhaka-sylhet highway in Bijoynagar upazila of Brahmanbaria district on Monday.The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.The accident occurred in the afternoon when the Dhak...

A journalist was seriously injured in an attack carried out by the younger brother of Alfadanga municipal mayor and his followers on Monday.Mujahidul Islam is the Alfadanga district correspondent of Dhaka Times and organizing secretary of Alfadanga Pre...

Two including a child drowned in separate places of Agailjhara upazila in Barishal on Monday.The deceased were identified as Yasin Foria, 20, from Sullashi village and Ibrahim Shikder, 1, from Chadtrishira village.Yasin went missing after he went for a...