Students demonstrate in front of DNMCH over alleged medical negligence
Students demonstrate in front of DNMCH over alleged medical negligence

Students from more than 35 colleges gathered around Dhaka National Medical College and Hospital (DNMCH) in Old Dhaka, demanding justice for the death of a student from Dr Mahbubur Rahman Mollah College (DMRC) and accountability for those responsible for the assault on them. The protesters...

Bangladesh records highest premature birth among 103 nations
Bangladesh records highest premature birth among 103 nations

The Business Standards reported the country records 488,600 premature births annually, the highest among 103 countries. Despite countrys growth in neonatal care facilities in last decade, quality concerns persist. Three newborns die every hour in Bangladesh due to prematurity and low birth...

Dengue takes 9 lives in 24 hrs
Dengue takes 9 lives in 24 hrs

9 people died in dengue in last 24 hrs. In the same period, 214 people got admitted to hospitals due to this mosquito-menace. This information was shared in a press release on dengue sent by the Health Emergency Operation Center and Control Room of the Directorate General of Health Services...

JU suspends deputy registrar, 3 others following student’s on-campus death
JU suspends deputy registrar, 3 others following student’s on-campus death

The deputy registrar of Jahangirnagar University (JU), among four officials, has been suspended following the death of Afsana Karim Rachi, a student from the 53rd batch of the Department of Marketing at the university. The administration also declared today (November 20) as a Day of Mourning in...

Tarique pays homage to Maulana Bhasani on his death anniversary
Tarique pays homage to Maulana Bhasani on his death anniversary

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday paid rich tributes to late politician Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani, popularly known as Majlum Jananeta (the leader of the downtrodden) on his 48th death anniversary on Sunday, reports BSS. Maulana Bhasani will...

Fakhrul pays tribute to Maulana Bhasani on his death anniversary
Fakhrul pays tribute to Maulana Bhasani on his death anniversary

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday paid rich tributes to Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani, popularly known as Majlum Jananeta (the leader of the downtrodden) on his 48th death anniversary on Sunday, reports BSS. Maulana Bhasani will...

The state's attire has changed, not its essence
The state's attire has changed, not its essence

Emeritus Professor Serajul Islam Choudhury said, There has been no change in the character of the state. If a monkey wears human clothes, does it become a human? The state remains that same monkey; only its attire has changed. There has been no true transformation in the state. On Sunday, at a...

29 children may be sentenced to death in Nigeria
29 children may be sentenced to death in Nigeria

A number of twenty-nine Nigerian children could be facing the death penalty as they were arraigned Friday for participating in a protest against the countrys record cost-of-living crisis, reports AP. Four of them collapsed in court due to exhaustion before they could enter a plea. 76...

Dengue takes 4 more lives in 24 hrs
Dengue takes 4 more lives in 24 hrs

Four more deaths due to dengue were reported in the 24 hours leading up to Sunday morning, raising the total fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 314 this year. In the recent fatalities, two were reported in the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and one each in Dhaka...

Laguna driver stabbed to death in Rampura
Laguna driver stabbed to death in Rampura

A laguna driver was stabbed to death and another was injured in Dhakas Rampura by alleged extortionists on Tuesday night, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Hasan, 22, and injured Nurul Alam, 23. Both were Laguna drivers. Injured Nurul said around 10:15 pm he and Hasan were operating...

Man stabbed to death at Savar
Man stabbed to death at Savar

A 38-year-old man was stabbed to death by hijackers on the Savar New Market area highway early Tuesday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Md Asaduzzaman, son of Abu Bakar Siddique of Taraganj in Rangpur. Savar Model Police Station Sub-inspector Mahbub Ullah Sarkar confirmed the...

Five awarded death sentence over Jahid murder case in Khulna
Five awarded death sentence over Jahid murder case in Khulna

A Khulna court has awarded a death sentence to five people in a case filed over the murder of Zahid in the Khalispur area of the city. The court also fined each of the convicts Tk1,00,000. Justice Md Jewel Rana, a judge of the Tribunal for Prevention of Offenses Disturbing Public Safety in...

Philippines races to assist stranded as storm death toll grows
Philippines races to assist stranded as storm death toll grows

On Thursday, rescuers in the Philippines rushed to reach residents stranded by flooding in the hard-hit Bicol region after heavy rains from Tropical Storm Trami submerged villages and resulted in more than 20 deaths. Schools and government offices were shuttered across the northern Philippines...

70th death anniversary of Jibanananda Das
70th death anniversary of Jibanananda Das

Today commemorates the 70th anniversary of the passing of Jibanananda Das, a celebrated Bengali poet. Renowned as the Ruposhi Banglar Kobi (Poet of Beautiful Bengal), he was born on February 17, 1899, in Barishal. Jibanananda Das is widely revered as the purest poet of melancholic nature of...

Ayub Bachchu’s 6th death anniversary today
Ayub Bachchu’s 6th death anniversary today

The nation commemorates the sixth death anniversary of Bangladeshs iconic rock superstar, singer, guitarist, composer, and music director Ayub Bachchu on Friday. Unanimously revered as one of the most coveted rockstars in the country, Ayub Bachchu passed away on this day in 2018 at the age of 56...

Mob Attack: Teenager beaten to death in Tongi
Mob Attack: Teenager beaten to death in Tongi

A teenager was killed and another got severely injured as mob beat them accusing of robbery, reports Dhaka Tribune. At Wednesday evening, the incident took place in Dattaparas Haque Mor area of Tongi, Gazipur. The deceased was identified as Sabbir Hossain, 18. He died at midnight while...

32,733 accidents in Bangladesh result in 35,384 deaths since 2019
32,733 accidents in Bangladesh result in 35,384 deaths since 2019

A report by the Road Safety Foundation (RSF) indicates that in the past five and a half years, accidents on roads, railways, and waterways in Bangladesh have resulted in human resource losses amounting to Tk 87,884.12 crore. From 2019 to June 2024, a total of 32,733 accidents were reported...