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Diagnostic Equipment Under One Umbrella

Accelerating a better future in healthcare, medical tech

Md Arifur Rahman

Dhaka International Dia-gnostic Medical Equipment Expo - 2025" is an important platform to showcase the latest modern technologies, enhance collaboration, and accelerate the growth of the diagnostic medical equipment as well as health sector.The organizers and participants of the fair believe that it will play a special role in the journey towards a healthier and ...

Battery-run auto-rickshaws pose threat to safe road management

Immediate govt action needed

Md Arifur Rahman

Battery-run auto-rickshaws pose threat to safe road management

The city dwellers are facing a new type of sufferings due to haphazard plying of battery-run auto-rickshaws which return to Dhaka's mains road causing traffic chaos. Earlier, these rickshaws were only plying in alleyways in the capital. But, they become rampant across the capital's main road following withdrawal of ban by ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina ...

Traffic Jam In Dhaka City

Around 82 lakh working hours worth Tk 139cr wasted daily

Police alone can't improve traffic movement, DMP Chief

Md Arifur Rahman

Around 82 lakh working hours worth Tk 139cr wasted daily

A private company employee Ashfiqur Rahman left Rampura for Gabtoli on time to go to his village home. But due to a traffic jam on the way, he missed his bus. Later, he bought another ticket for the bus. This cost him an extra Tk 300.Not only Ashfiqur Rahman, but many people in Dhaka are wasting ...

Change Of Season

Cold, fever, cough up

Md Arifur Rahman

As season is changing, people are being infected with seasonal cold, fever, cough, and sneezing. From children to elderly, many people suffer from various physical ailments.Due to the high dust level during this time, common people are getting colds and coughs. Meanwhile, bacterial infections, tonsil, meningitis, pneumonia are happening. In addition, those who have respiratory ...

55pc Victims Are Children

Culture of impunity fuels rape recurrence: Experts

Md Arifur Rahman

An 8-year-old girl is now battling for her life after she was raped and strangled to injured at her sister's in-laws' house in Magura. Not only this girl, but also around 55 percent of the women who are raped in the country are children.Children are easy targets for rapists because they are physically weak and ...

USAID funding cuts leave thousands jobless, millions in peril in BD

Md Arifur Rahman

The development sector in Bangladesh has long provided stable employment for thousands of local professionals, including researchers, project managers, and field workers responsible for implementing essential programmes.The recent cessation of funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which has resulted in the suspension of US foreign assistance programmes, has had a profound ...

Lax fire safety measures leave Dhaka's buildings at risk as fatalities mount

Four perish in hotel inferno amid ongoing safety lapses

Md Arifur Rahman

Lax fire safety measures leave Dhaka's buildings at risk as fatalities mount

Four people were burned to death in a devastating fire that broke out at a residential hotel in the Shahjadpur area of the capital on Monday. According to the Fire Service, the victims, in a state of panic, attempted to climb to safety when the fire erupted. However, the door leading to the attic on ...

Dhaka residents gripped by fear amid rising crimes

Muggings persist amid 'Operation Devil Hunt'

Md Arifur Rahman

Dhaka residents gripped by fear amid rising crimes

Atik and Riya, a couple working in a private company, used to live in the Mohammadpur area of the capital. While visiting a relative's house, they prepared to return home before evening. When a relative asks them to stay for dinner, they declined, saying "Life comes first."They explained that they are scared due to the ...

Teen gangs mutate into hardcore criminals

40pc of criminals in Dhaka are teenagers, build-up for crackdown underway

Md Arifur Rahman

Teen gangs mutate into hardcore criminals

The incident of a woman and a man being hacked with teenagers in broad daylight while returning home at Uttara in Dhaka, went viral on Facebook. This shocking event has once again highlighted the terrifying nature of teenage gangs across the country.The teen gang members directly attacked them with sharp weapons after they protested against ...

ACC targets Hasina, family members, associates in corruption crackdown

156 cases filed against them in Integrated District Office of Dhaka from Aug 5 to Jan

Md Arifur Rahman

ACC targets Hasina, family members, associates in corruption crackdown

In an unprecedented turn of events, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled to India on August 5 last year, amidst a surge of student and public protests. The departure, which saw Hasina fleeing with her younger sister Sheikh Rehana, has since unveiled a shocking narrative of rampant corruption involving Sheikh Hasina, her family members, ...