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Dhaka again tops list of cities with most polluted air
Dhaka has once again topped the list of world cities, for the wrong reason, with the worst air quality on Friday morning.
With an air quality index (AQI) score of 208 at 9am today, Dhaka ranked first in the list of cities with the worst air pollution.
Read more: Dhaka's air quality still ‘very unhealthy' as it ranks 2nd worst polluted city
An AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be "very unhealthy," while a reading of 301 to 400 is considered "hazardous," posing serious health risks to residents.
India's Mumbai and Ghana's Accra occupied the second and third spots in the list, with AQI scores of 189 and 188, respectively.
In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants – particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.
Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. The city's air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during monsoon.
Read more: No improvement in Dhaka’s air quality, still ‘ very unhealthy’
Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide.
Breathing polluted air has long been recognised as increasing a person's chances of developing heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies.
As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely as a result of increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections.
4 arrested over murder of trader, assistant in Dhaka
Police arrested four members of a gang on Thursday for their suspected involvement in killing a local raw material trader and his assistant after kidnapping from the capital’s Lalbagh area .
The arrestees were identified as Nuruzzaman Hawladar, 40, Md A Aziz Shikder, 34, Hafez Choukidar, 46, and Delwar Hossain Molla Delu, 35, said a Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) press release on Thursday.
They were all arrested during drives at different places in the capital and Barishal district, said police.
Read more: 3 arrested for raping, killing mentally-challenged woman in Sylhet
Plastic raw materials trader Jewel Shikder’s father registered a general diary on the night of December 15 at Chawkbazar police station over his son going missing.
After that police started a shadow investigation and drive and traced last location of Jewel and his assistant Morshed Alam at Mehediganj upazila in Barishal.
Later DMP Chawkbazar police conducted a drive to rescue the victims but managed to arrest the four kidnappers.
In primary questioning the arrestees confessed to kidnapping Jewel and Morshed for snatching money.
Read more: 31 members of mugging gang arrested in capital: Rab
They took the victims in the middle of the Meghna River in Barishal by a fishing trawler and strangled them after getting the money. They confirmed their death by drowning them in the river, said police.
A case has been filed in this regard at Chawkbazar model police station.
Madrasa teacher arrested for rape in Dhaka
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members have arrested a madrasa teacher in a rape case from Ramna area in the capital.
The accused was Md. Alamgir Mollah, 28, a teacher at Malibagh Tamimul Quran Madrasah.
Lt. Col. Arif Mohiuddin Ahmed, commanding officer of RAB-3, said that a rape case was filed against Alamgir at Rampura police station on Tuesday.
“He kept changing his location after the case was filed,” he said.
Read more: 45-yr-old man arrested for raping minor girl in Chattogram
Alamgir has been teaching at the madrasah for the past three months and the rape survivor lives near the madrasa.
She filed a case under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, he added.
Read more: Man arrested for raping minor girl after abduction in Ctg
Man killed in city road crash
A 47-year-old man was killed when a bus hit a rickshaw van in the city’s Jatrabari area early Tuesday.
The deceased was identified as Joynal Abedin, 47, son of Sonamuddin of Patuakhali district.
Read more: Biker, pillion rider dead in Kushtia road accident
The accident occurred around 2 am when the bus hit the rickshaw van carrying Joynal, leaving him injured, said Inspector Bachhu Mia, in-charge of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) police camp.
Later, he was taken to DMCH where he succumbed to his injuries around 4:15 am.
Dhaka’s air ‘hazardous’ this morning
Dhaka has continued to top the list of world cities with the worst air quality on Monday morning.
With an air quality index (AQI) score of 389 at 9am today, Dhaka ranked first in the list of cities with worst air.
An AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be ‘very unhealthy’, while a reading of 301 to 400 is considered 'hazardous', posing serious health risks to residents.
Read more: Dhaka’s air ‘hazardous’, most polluted in the world on Christmas morning
Pakistan’s Karachi and Ghana’s Accra occupied the second and third spots in the list, with AQI scores of 258 and 191, respectively.
In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.
Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.
Read more: AQI: Dhaka’s air still ‘unhealthy’ this morning
Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide. Breathing polluted air has long been recognised as increasing a person’s chances of developing a heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies.
As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely as a result of increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections.
Dhaka’s air ‘hazardous’, most polluted in the world on Christmas morning
Dhaka has once again topped the list of world cities with the worst air quality on Christmas morning.
With an air quality index (AQI) score of 374 at 9am today, Dhaka ranked first in the list of cities with worst air.
An AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be ‘very unhealthy’, while a reading of 301 to 400 is considered 'hazardous', posing serious health risks to residents.
Read more: Dhaka air 3rd most polluted in the world this morning
India’s Delhi and Kyrgyzstan’s Bishkek occupied the second and third spots in the list, with AQI scores of 238 and 225, respectively.
In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.
Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.
Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide. Breathing polluted air has long been recognised as increasing a person’s chances of developing a heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies.
Read more: AQI: Dhaka’s air still ‘unhealthy’ this morning
As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely as a result of increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections.
US Embassy Dhaka wants to know if Russian 'principle of non-interference' applies in Ukraine
The US Embassy in Dhaka took to Twitter Wednesday to respond to the Russian mission's comment that they are against interfering in the internal affairs of other countries.
"Does this (principle of non-interference) apply to Ukraine?" asked the US mission. It also expressed solidarity with Ukraine saying: "Stand with Ukraine."
Russia Tuesday said it is "invariably committed" to its principle of not interfering in the domestic affairs of other countries, including that of Bangladesh.
"States like Bangladesh, which shape their foreign and internal policy to serve their own national interests instead of following the lead of external powers, take the similar approach," the Russian Embassy in Dhaka said in a statement.
Under the pretext of protecting "democratic values," work is underway to interfere in the internal affairs of those who are out of favour with the states that consider themselves "rulers of the world," the mission added.
"Such policy evidently results in undermining the sustainability of the world order, brings chaos and havoc. The incomplete list includes Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria and Afghanistan," it said.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Washington on Wednesday for a summit with President Joe Biden and an address to Congress to shore up support for his country and send a defiant message to Russia, reports AP.
Read more: Russian military to reach 1.5M; Putin vows to win in Ukraine
Zelenskyy said on his Twitter account before his arrival that the visit, his first known trip outside Ukraine since the war began in February, was "to strengthen the resilience and defence capabilities" of Ukraine and to discuss cooperation with the US.
The highly sensitive trip was taking place after 10 months of a brutal war that has seen tens of thousands of casualties on both sides and devastation for Ukrainian civilians. Just before his arrival, the US announced its largest single delivery of arms to Ukraine, including Patriot surface-to-air missiles, and Congress planned to vote on a spending package that includes about $45 billion in emergency assistance to Ukraine.
Read more: Russia committed to ‘not interfering in the domestic affairs’ of Bangladesh: Embassy statement
Meherpur man killed on Airport Road as truck hits motorcycle
A 32-year-old man was killed on the Airport Road in Dhaka early in the early hours of Wednesday as a truck hit a two-wheeler, police said.
The deceased was identified as Tanvir Sajjad Sourav from Gangni upazila of Meherpur.
"The incident occurred at around 12:30am as Tanvir was going to Uttara from Mirpur-10 on his friends' motorcycle. When he neared Balaka Bhaban the truck rammed into the two-wheeler," said Sub-Inspector (SI) Jewel Mia of Airport Police Station.
Read more: Two dead in Kalabagan road accident
The critically injured was first taken to a local hospital and then referred to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) where he was declared dead at around 2:30am, the SI added.
The body has been kept at DMCH Hospital morgue for post-mortem, Jewel said.
Dhaka’s air most polluted in the world this morning
Air pollution still remains one of the top-most challenges for Bangladesh, and among cities around the world, Dhaka’s air quality has been ranked as the most polluted this morning.
The capital's air quality index (AQI) was recorded at 259 at 9:20 am today (December 21, 2022).
Read: Air pollution 2nd biggest cause of deaths in Bangladesh in 2019, cost about 3.9-4.4% of GDP: World Bank
India's Kolkata and Delhi occupied the next two spots, with AQI scores of 232, and 225, respectively.
An AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be 'poor', while a reading of 301 to 400 is considered 'hazardous', posing serious health risks to residents.
Read: Effects of Air Pollution on Unborn Children, Neonates, Infants
In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.
Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy during winter.
Dhaka keeps grapping with ‘very unhealthy' air
There is no respite for Dhaka dwellers from unhealthy air as it turned ‘very unhealthy’ on Monday morning.
With an air quality index (AQI) score of 230 at 9 am, the metropolis ranked third in the list of world cities with the worst air quality.
Read more: Dhaka's air 2nd most polluted in the world this morning
An AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be ‘very unhealthy’, while a reading of 301 to 400 is considered 'hazardous', posing serious health risks to residents.
Pakistan’s Lahore and Karachi occupied the first two spots in the list, with AQI scores of 274 and 232, respectively.
An AQI between 101 and 200 is considered 'unhealthy', particularly for sensitive groups.
In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.
Read more: Dhaka air once again world’s most polluted this morning
Dhaka has long been grappling with air pollution issues. Its air quality usually turns unhealthy in winter and improves during the monsoon.
Air pollution consistently ranks among the top risk factors for death and disability worldwide. Breathing polluted air has long been recognised as increasing a person’s chances of developing a heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, lung infections and cancer, according to several studies.
As per the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year, largely as a result of increased mortality from stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections.