Millions of adolescents across Africa may unknowingly be battling asthma because they have not received a diagnosis from a clinician and, therefore, are not receiving the necessary treatments, a new study has found.

The government has moved to convert a 99.42-kilometre stretch of the Bonpara-Kushtia-Jhenaidah road into a four-lane highway at an estimated cost of Tk9,899 crore.

Mushfiqul Fazal Ansarey, recently appointed as an Ambassador of Bangladesh, has said goodbye to his media colleagues at the US Department of State briefing room, ending his ten-year journey as a correspondent.