The cutting of the red hillocks in Tangail continues. With the help of people with political influence, soil traders are allegedly cutting and levelling the hills every day. 

At least 19 Bangladeshi students have been shifted to Ankara from Gaziantep, one of the most affected regions of Turkey, which suffered a major earthquake killing over 17,000 people since Monday.

Says current envoy

The 5.1-magnitude quake hit around 1.28 pm (0628 GMT) on land just southwest of Jayapura city at a depth of 22 kilometres

Bangladesh last night sent a 61-member rescue team to Turkey, which has seen more than 15,000 deaths in the earthquake and its aftermath.

Some of the heaviest devastation occurred near the quake's epicentre between Kahramanmaras and Gaziantep, where entire city blocks lay in ruins.

"The Bangladesh government has declared one day of state mourning marking the deaths in the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. To observe the day of mourning, the peace rally programme of Dhaka City (north) unit Awami League has been postponed," reads a press release of the AL unit, signed by William Proloy Samaddar, its office secretary.

With an air quality index (AQI) score of 225 at 8:51 am today, Dhaka ranked first in the list of cities with worst air.

AFP reporters were unable to access the social media network across Turkey. It still worked using VPN services that disguise a user's location.

Hopes were fading Thursday for rescuing survivors of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, which has killed over 17,500 people in one of the deadliest tremors in decades

The High Court yesterday directed the government to take legal action against the persons responsible for cutting down hills and hillocks in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura and Habiganj’s Dinarpur area.

According to World Bank’s Pink Sheet, a monthly report that monitors commodity price movements

The government must import LNG at a high price from the spot market

Over 11,200 people have been killed and thousands more injured after the earthquake struck southeastern Turkey and neighbouring Syria at 04:17 am (0117 GMT) on Monday

DNCRP conducted at least 70 to 80 drives all over the country

The child was immediately taken to the hospital by medical teams

Officials and medics said 9,057 people had died in Turkey and 2,662 in Syria from Monday's 7.8-magnitude tremor, bringing the total to 11,719.

Bangladesh government has declared one day of state mourning for tomorrow marking the deaths in the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.

China will offer emergency humanitarian aid of 30 million yuan ($4.4 million) to earthquake-hit Syria, its foreign ministry spokesperson, Mao Ning, told a regular news briefing on Wednesday.

Turkey government expressed its gratitude for sending the rescue crew