11+ hour, 45+ 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…...

11+ hour, 45+ min ago   (506+ words) Monday | September 14, 2026 | Dhaka Six people died of dengue and 1,561 new patients were hospitalised across the country in the 24 hours until 8:00am on Sunday, taking the total number of deaths from the mosquito-borne disease to 149 this year. The latest figures were reported…...

12+ hour, 40+ min ago   (188+ words) Monday | September 14, 2026 | Dhaka The 135-year-old historic Pakshi Railway Hospital in Ishwardi, Pabna, has lost much of its former glory due to manpower shortages, a lack of modern medical equipment and poor management. Once bustling with patients and keeping doctors and…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (444+ words) Friday | September 11, 2026 | Dhaka Seven more children died with measles-like symptoms across Bangladesh in the 24 hours to 8am today, taking the combined number of laboratory-confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 1,009, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). The latest deaths…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (666+ words) Friday | September 11, 2026 | Dhaka About 5.5 per cent of Bangladeshi youth aged 18 to 24 are currently using emerging tobacco and nicotine products, including e-cigarettes, heated tobacco products (HTPs) and nicotine pouches, according to a new study. The findings, presented on Thursday, also showed…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (356+ words) Thursday | September 10, 2026 | Dhaka Farah, a 59-year-old resident of Iran’s capital Tehran, used to fill her autoimmune prescription with a Swiss-made drug. Now she takes the Iranian-made version and worries that, too, may soon be in short supply.” I switched to…...

4+ day, 16+ 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, 11+ 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, 14+ 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…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (200+ words) Tuesday | September 08, 2026 | Dhaka Three children died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours until 8am Monday, raising Bangladesh’s combined confirmed and suspected measles-related death toll to 997 this year. The latest fatalities were classified as suspected measles deaths, with no new confirmed measles…...