12+ hour, 38+ min ago   (998+ words) Monday | September 14, 2026 | Dhaka For many Bangladeshi parents, giving a smartphone to a child has become almost as ordinary as buying schoolbooks. That raises a simple question: Does a child really need a smartphone, or simply a phone? For children and…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (612+ words) Wednesday | September 09, 2026 | Dhaka Around 25 million people in Bangladesh are exposed to second-hand smoke while travelling on public transport, prompting calls for urgent measures to make all public transport completely tobacco- and smoke-free. Stakeholders made the call at a meeting titled…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1229+ words) Wednesday | September 09, 2026 | Dhaka According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Bangladesh recorded 4,714 suicide deaths in 2021- only 2.8 per 100,000 populations. In the same year, police records showed 15,774 deaths. The gap is more than threefold. In other words, a country whose international rate…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (716+ words) Tuesday | September 08, 2026 | Dhaka Tobacco and nicotine products are posing a major obstacle to Bangladesh’s efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly the target of reducing premature deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs), experts said at a roundtable in Dhaka…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (524+ words) Monday | August 31, 2026 | Dhaka Health Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossain has called for stronger and more coordinated tobacco control measures, saying Bangladesh cannot effectively tackle the growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) without reducing tobacco use. “Prevention of non-communicable diseases is…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (261+ words) Wednesday | August 19, 2026 | Dhaka The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of Bangladesh has urged Bangladeshi patients to go to Malaysia for advanced treatment at affordable prices. As part of this, the Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council (MHTC) has launched a ‘U-Turn…...