Current Affairs
CC camera network launched across Dhaka for citywide surveillance
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has launched nine apps and software to improve citizen services, traffic management, and police professionalism. Authorities have also announced plans to monitor the entire capital through 11,000 closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras.
HC to deliver order on ex-DU hall VP Emi's bail Thursday
The High Court will deliver its order on Thursday, April 30, regarding the bail petition of former vice-president of Dhaka University's Shamsunnahar Hall parliament, Sheikh Tasnim Afroz Emi. She is facing charges under the Anti-Terrorism Act for playing Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's historic March 7 speech.
Decomposed body of businessman recovered from Cox's Bazar hotel
Police have recovered a partially decomposed body of a man from a room of a residential hotel on Anderson Road in Cox's Bazar town. The body was recovered after breaking open the door of room number 408 of Hotel Nishita on Wednesday afternoon, April 29.
74% of measles patients unvaccinated: DGHS
Seventy-four per cent of children infected with measles in the ongoing outbreak have not received any vaccine, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has said. Among the remaining patients, 14 per cent received only the first dose, and 12 per cent were infected despite receiving both doses .
Wife allegedly raped after husband tied up at Rajshahi railway station
A man was brutally beaten, tied up, and his wife was raped at the Sardaha railway station in Charghat upazila, Rajshahi. The incident took place around 1:00 am on Tuesday, April 28.
Japanese agriculture minister meets PM Tarique Rahman
A high-level Japanese delegation led by Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister and Special Envoy Suzuki Norikazu held a courtesy meeting with Prime Minister Tarique Rahman at the Prime Minister's Office in the National Parliament building on Wednesday afternoon, April 29.
Thousands of hectares of farmland submerged, fear of rising losses
At least five thousand hectares of ripe Boro paddy have been submerged in four upazilas of Habiganj due to continuous rainfall and upstream rushing water. Farmers who managed to harvest their crops are now unable to dry them in the absence of sunlight, leaving the grain at risk of rotting in the sheaves.
Jubo League holds torch, lantern march in Netrokona despite ban, video goes viral
A video of a snap procession by Jubo League, the youth organisation of the banned Awami League, has surfaced on social media. The march took place on Kailati road in Netrokona Sadar upazila on Tuesday night, local residents said .
35 years after 1991 cyclone, coastal embankments still remain vulnerable
Today is April 29, a day of mourning for the people of Bangladesh's coastal belt. On this day in 1991, a devastating cyclone and tidal surge ravaged the country's coastal areas. More than three decades have passed, but the painful memories still haunt coastal residents. Meanwhile, the old fear remains—the coast is still not fully safe.