It’s easy to dismiss Dhaka as an unliveable city. The challenge is to replace that tantrum with the determination to make the city better.
Dhaka's air is a stew of brick kiln soot, exhaust fumes, construction dust, and factory emissions
Only Australia, New Zealand, the Bahamas, Barbados, Grenada, Estonia and Iceland made the grade, IQAir said.
Dhaka’s polluted air isn’t just a statistic — it’s a daily, life-altering challenge.
A smog-choked city feigns denial as it claims the title of worst air quality.
Lung cancer is the commonest form of the disease, with 2.5 million people diagnosed in 2022
Today's air was classified as 'very unhealthy'
The average concentration of PM2.5 particles -- the most harmful air pollutants -- in Dhaka is about 18 times higher than the global health standard, leaving millions of residents struggling for relief.
Air pollution is responsible for 102,456 deaths annually in Bangladesh, as per a new study by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA).
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.
