Day: November 11, 2023
In Bangladesh, there is no more room left in the prisons. In the last two weeks alone, almost 10,000 opposition...
UNB : A 35-year-old man was killed and 15 others injured after a passenger bus overturned at the entrance of...
News Desk :Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra said that as far as Bangladesh is concerned, India has shared its “perspective very clearly” in the India-US 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue held here. On Friday, reports BSS. “We did discuss very extensively regional issues and so far Bangladesh is concerned, we shared our perspective very clearly in the dialogue,” he told a post dialogue press briefing here this afternoon. Indian Defence Secretary Aramane Giridha and MEA Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi, among others, were...
News Desk :The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Valneva’s single-shot vaccine for individuals 18 years of age and older who are at increased risk of exposure to the chikungunya virus. Valneva’s vaccine, with the brand name Ixchiq, is the first preventive shot to be approved in the United States for the mosquito-borne disease, reports Reuters. Chikungunya virus spreads to people through the bite of an infected mosquito. The most common symptoms of infection are fever and joint...
News Desk :A tourist boat was set ablaze for extortion in the Kaindarmukh area of Rangamati at noon on Friday. There were six tourists, hailing from Chandpur, on the boat. They had come from Sajek to Rangamati on Thursday. Kotwali police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Ariful Amin said he was on the spot along with his team, adding that he would give details later. The tourists said five armed men snatched everyone’s mobile phone when they reached the Kaindarmukh area in...
BSS :A man and his wife were killed and two others injured in a head-on collision between a pickup van and a leguna in Nimtola area on the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Expressway in Munshiganj. The deceased are Nirmol Chakraborti, 40, and his wife Kanok Chakraborti, 35. They were the residents of Barishal district. Hasara highway police station Officer-in-Charge Kanchon Kumar Singh said Nirmol and his wife died while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital this afternoon. The pickup...
Staff Reporter :The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested Dhaka Metropolitan North BNP Joint Convener Golam Mostafa (53) from Ashulia in Savar. Mostafa, also General Secretary of Savar upazila BNP was arrested in a case filed with Paltan Police Station over the killing of police constable Amirul Islam Parvez in the clash between police and BNP activists on October 28. Commander Khandaker Al Moin, Director of the Legal and Media Wing of the RAB confirmed the matter to media on...
Al Jazeera :About 90,000 people have been displaced in Myanmar due to the intensifying conflict between the country’s military rulers and an alliance of ethnic armed groups, the United Nations said. “As of 9 November, almost 50,000 people in northern Shan were forced into displacement,” the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in an update on Friday. A further 40,000 people have been displaced by clashes between the military and its opponents in neighbouring Sagaing...
Staff Reporter :The prices of rice have been showing an upward trend on both retail and wholesale markets in the capital during the last couple of days, hitting the low-income people most. The retail price of coarse rice varieties (Swarna and IRRI) and medium quality (BR28) of rice increased by Tk 3-4 a kg over the past month while price of fine rice (Miniket and Nazirshial) rose by Tk 2-6 a kg. Currently, coarse varieties of rice is being sold...
