Faisal Mahmud

Fre­quent pow­er cuts due to fuel short­ages wors­en mis­ery as sear­ing heat forces schools to close and dis­rupts lives.

The nine-storey build­ing col­lapsed in 2013, killing 1,134 peo­ple, in one of the dead­liest in­dus­tri­al dis­as­ters ever.

Bangladesh’s op­po­si­tion has jumped on the re­cent con­tro­ver­sy over the In­di­an ty­coon to de­mand can­celling the pow­er deal.

Sham­suz­za­man Shams, a cor­re­spon­dent for Pro­thom Alo, de­tained un­der the con­tro­ver­sial Dig­i­tal Se­cu­ri­ty Act.

The im­port-de­pen­dent na­tion is fac­ing eco­nom­ic hard­ship in the wake of Rus­sia’s in­va­sion of Ukraine as prices shoot up.

Mil­lions in the South Asian coun­try sup­port Ar­genti­na, which will take on France in Sun­day’s cham­pi­onship game in Qatar.

Op­po­si­tion par­ty mo­bilis­es tens of thou­sands of sup­port­ers in Dha­ka to protest price rise and de­mand PM’s res­ig­na­tion.

Weeks of fir­ing es­ca­lates ten­sions be­tween the neigh­bours, rais­ing con­cerns of new Ro­hingya ex­o­dus into Bangladesh.

At least 398 peo­ple were killed and 774 in­jured in 319 road ac­ci­dents in fort­night be­tween July 3 to 17, says a mon­i­tor.

At least 32 die in first five days of July as the coun­try re­ports sharp rise in cas­es ahead of a ma­jor Mus­lim fes­ti­val.