Dhaka Air Quality Improves, Lahore Tops Pollution List

Dhaka residents are getting some relief from air pollution compared with recent days. Between 7am and 8am on Tuesday (September 22), Dhaka recorded an Air Quality Index (AQI) score of 69 on the index of international air-quality monitoring organisation IQAir. According to the score, Dhaka’s air was in the “moderate” or “tolerable” category. At the […]Continue Reading

PM Tarique Rahman Arrives in New York

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has arrived in New York to attend the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). He is scheduled to address the General Assembly on September 24. A Turkish Airlines flight carrying the Prime Minister landed at John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport at 6:20pm New York time on Monday. […]Continue Reading

Who Bears Responsibility for Mariam’s Fate?

The tragic demise of 19-year-old Mariam Akhtar inside the NAM Building, a government facility constructed with public funds for lawmakers, has ignited severe national outrage across Bangladesh. The victim’s family, alongside social rights defenders, holds former Satkhira-4 Member of Parliament Mr. Gazi Nazrul Islam directly accountable for her untimely death. According to Continue Reading