Firefighters today rescued a 14-year-old girl, a domestic help, while attempting to jump from a seventh-floor window of a building in the Bashundhara Residential Area

Rapid urbanisation and infrastructure projects have prioritised development over environmental preservation, leading to significant deforestation. Roads have widened and buildings have risen, often at the expense of the mature trees that once cooled the air and filtered pollutants.

Police last night launched a massive block raid in the capital's Bashundhara Residential Area and its adjacent Kalachandpur to arrest “drug peddlers and criminals”.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrests the admin of popular Facebook page Moja Losss? from Bashundhara Residential Area in Dhaka.

The court’s verdict on Parimal Chandra Joydhar in the rape case filed over violating a Viqarunnisa Noon School student is set to be delivered on November 25.