Over 1.5 million children are at increased risk of waterborne diseases, drowning and malnutrition due to extensive flooding in north-eastern Bangladesh, says UNICEF on Monday.
The UN agency is on t...
Monkeypox is usually self-limiting but may be severe in some individuals, such as children, pregnant women or persons with immune suppression due to other health conditions, says the World Health Orga...
A woman and her two minor children were found dead with their throats slit in their house in Babla village of the district's Belabo upazila on Sunday.
The deceased were identified as Rahima Begum,36,...
The number of road accidents refuses to come down, despite periodic enforcement drives by police.
As many as 1,674 children were killed in road accidents in the past 28 months (till April 2022), acco...
Two children drowned at separate places in Dinajpur on Friday, police said.
Swadhin Islam, 13, son of Sirajul Islam of Aftabganj of Nawabganj upazila drowned while taking bath in a pond at the Shiv M...
Two minor children drowned in a pond at Haripur in Thakurgaon on Sunday morning.
The deceased were identified as Rumin Islam, 6, and his cousin Shova Aktar, 4, of Bhabanipur Modhudanga village of t...
Two children, both cousins aged three, have drowned in a pond in Brahmanbaria’s Kasba upazila, police said on Friday.
The deceased were identified as Mosaiba Akhter, daughter of Jewel Miah of Tinla...
Two minor children drowned in a pond at Muladi in Sadar upazila of Barishal on Wednesday morning.
The deceased were identified as six-month-old boy Ariyan Khan, son of Sumon Khan, and his cousin two-...
Two minor children drowned in a pond at Sumilpara in Siddhirganj of Narayanganj district on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Jhumur, 7, daughter of Joynal and Abdullah, 8, son of Rubel Mia of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s official Eid-ul-Fitr greeting cards this year, like in the past, contain the drawings done by 11 children with special needs, the PM’s media wing said on Monday.
Th...