DHAKA, Feb 4, 2025 (BSS) – Fire broke out at Tekpara slums of Mirpur-14 during early hours today but no causalities were ...

Asif Mahmud Sajeeb Bhuiyan, adviser to the Ministry of Local Government, said, "If we imagine Dhaka city as the human body, the canals are the veins and arteries. With collective efforts, we must ...

A massive fire has swept through a slum in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, leaving thousands of people homeless. At least 1,200 tin shacks were destroyed in the Chalantika slum late on Friday ...

Out of 164.7 million Bangladeshi, one in four live below the poverty line. As of 2016, an estimated 3.5 million people live in the slums of Dhaka.

Residents of Chalantika slum in Dhaka's Mirpur, now homeless after a devastating fire on Friday, receiving food being distributed by local public representatives on Sunday. Photo: Mahmud Zaman Ovi ...

Quoting family members, Inspector Faruk, in-charge of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital police camp, said Milon, a father of a child, used to live at the slum at Choto Diabari-1 in Mirpur.

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