The Eid holidays of all sanitation department officials and employees of Dhaka North and South City Corporations have been cancelled ahead of Eid-ul-Azha. A total of approximately 29,500 personnel have been deployed to ensure waste removal within the stipulated time.
Five more children have died from confirmed measles and measles-like symptoms across the country in the last 24 hours, according to the latest report from the Directorate General of Health Services on Wednesday, May 27. A total of 1,118 new infections were recorded during the same period, of which 62 were confirmed through laboratory tests.
Former chief adviser of the interim government and Nobel laureate economist Dr Muhammad Yunus has left Dhaka for Paris, the capital of France.
A three-member investigation committee has been formed following the deaths of six newborns at a ward of Ad-Din Hospital in the capital’s Moghbazar area.
Police have said that the preliminary cause behind the deaths of six newborns at a post-operative ward of Ad-Din Hospital appears to be related to the air-conditioning system being switched off for a period of time.
A road crash in the capital has killed at least four people and injured 10 others after a passenger bus lost control and collided with another bus in the capital's Nadda area.