Day: May 1, 2024
City Desk : Dhaka’s air quality was marked “unhealthy” on Tuesday morning. With an air quality index (AQI) score of 159 at 9:05am, Dhaka ranked 5th on the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality. India’s Delhi, Nepal’s Kathmandu and Indonesia’s Medan occupied the first three spots in the list, with AQI scores of 177, 172 and 168, respectively, reports UNB. In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants — Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2,...
City Desk : President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Tuesday called upon all political parties of the country to give priority to...
AFP : At least 25 people died and more than a dozen were injured when a bus plunged into a ravine from a mountain road in northern Peru, local authorities said Monday. Local official Olga Bobadilla told RPP radio the incident late Sunday happened on a potholed dirt road in the Andean region of Cajamarca, “and the bus fell into an abyss” some 200 metres deep. The toll was updated from an initial 23 to 25 later in the day....
Chattogram Bureau : The number of containers and bulk cargoes being handled at Chattogram Port, the country’s premier seaport, has surged in recent times, improving its trade efficiency, despite a decrease in the number of ship arrivals. Stakeholders have attributed this growth to relatively larger ships now being able to dock at the port’s jetty with more containers and goods on board, improving trade efficiency. According to the port’s data, in the nine months from July to March of fiscal...
Staff Reporter : In a tragic incident in the Doarabazar area of Sunamganj, a college girl (aged 18) was raped and subsequently hanged by her boyfriend, Liton Ahmed (aged 20), on Monday night (April 29) in the Pandergaon Union of the upazila. The victim was identified as a class XII student at a local college. The swift action of the police led to the immediate arrest of the accused, Liton Ahmed, with the aid of information technology. Liton, hailing from...
AFP, Marseille : A French environmental charity said it had turned down the chance to take part in the torch...
M. Mizanur Rahman : Till now the people all over the world are living through class-struggle. There are two classes of people in society. One is the exploiter and the other is exploited. The funniest thing is that the exploiters are intelligent few, while the large mediocre sections of the people are exploited. These exploited weaker section of the people are infested with poverty created artificially by the exploiters. Those exploiters are called rich or materially wealthy in society. So...
Agency : Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski scored a hat-trick in the second half to help his side fight back to claim a hard-fought 4-2 win on Monday over visitors Valencia, who were leading 2-1 when they were reduced to 10 men just before the break. With five games remaining, Barca moved back to second in LaLiga on 73 points as they leapfrogged surprise package Girona, who are third with 71. Those two teams will meet in a Catalonia derby on...
UNB : The Editors’ Council and Newspaper Owners’ Association of Bangladesh (Noab) on Tuesday demanded resumption of unhindered entry for journalists to Bangladesh Bank at the earliest. The demand was placed in a joint statement as the central bank has recently slapped unwritten restrictions on journalists’ entry into its headquarters. The statement says journalists from different media outlets have not been able to enter Bangladesh Bank for more than a month to perform their professional duties. The Noab and the...