Khulna city is grappling with an escalating dust pollution crisis, exacerbated by ongoing development projects, poor environmental management, and unregulated industrial expansion.
Three-year-old Anisha Anju was struggling to breathe in the pneumonia ward of Dhaka Shishu Hospital and Institute.
Our city’s air quality has reached such hazardous levels that stepping outside is now equivalent to puffing on 22 cigarettes a day.
For public information, air quality data is regularly updated on the Department of Environment's website.
Today's air was classified as "very unhealthy" and such air quality continued for the past few days
Tops global list for worst air quality with 'hazardous' AQI
Dhaka's air continues to be unhealthy as it ranked 3rd on the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 164 at 8:59am this morning
Almost 60,000 vehicles and more than 7,500 building sites were fined
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What exactly is the government doing to improve air quality?
India's Delhi and China's Beijing occupied the second and third spots on the list, with AQI scores of 221 and 187
Dhaka has topped the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI index of 239 at 08:55am today..The air was classified as 'very unhealthy'.
The High Court today wanted to know what steps were being taken to curb air pollution in Dhaka, as the capital has been at or near the top of most polluted cities in the world for the last one week.
Government must save residents of Dhaka, other cities from massive pollution
Dhaka ranked second in the list of world cities with the worst air quality as it registered an air quality index (AQI) score of 234 at 9:05am today, which puts the capital in the "very unhealthy" category
It seems grossly inappropriate that in a country on its way to achieving middle-income status, there are still people dying from poverty.
Dhaka has once again topped the list of world cities with the worst air quality.
Four South Asian countries -- Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan -- have agreed to drastically bring down the annual average of particulate matter (PM) 2.5 in the countries’ air to 35 microgrammes per cubic metre by 2030.
Air pollution is killing around 80,000 people every year in Bangladesh by causing respiratory problems as well as depression, and wiping out around 4 percent of the country’s GDP, said a World Bank report yesterday.
