News Desk :A total of 519 vehicles and important structures were set on fire and vandalized during the hartal and blockade programs enforced by opposition BNP and other like minded parties from October 28 to November 28. This information was disclosed in a law-and-order report issued by the police headquarters on Friday. Since October 28, the BNP has enforced hartals for four days and blockades for 16 days. According to police headquarters, 191 vehicles were vandalized and 299 were set...
Md. Sazedul Islam : International Day of Persons with Disabilities is generally observed across the world, including in Bangladesh, on...
Al Jazeera :The United States has given so-called ‘bunker buster’ bombs and an array of other munitions to Israel for...
UNB :UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has made an urgent appeal to all countries in the region, particularly those in the area surrounding the Andaman Sea, to swiftly deploy their full search and rescue capacities in response to reported vessels in distress with hundreds of Rohingya at risk of perishing. UNHCR reiterated its call for a comprehensive regional response to address these perilous maritime movements. Since 2022 until today more than 570 people including Rohingya refugees have been reported as...
Agency :England clawed their way back from two goals down to beat the Netherlands 3-2 in a nerve-jangling Women’s Nations...
Not long ago, the presence of antibiotics was found to have crossed ‘safe’ levels in the waters of Bangladesh rivers. The first ever global study on the matter by England’s University of York found that Metronidazole, an antibiotic that is mostly misused in Bangladesh, exceeded safe levels by the biggest margin, with concentrations at one site 300 times greater than the ‘safe’ level. Ciproflaxacin, which is used to treat a number of bacterial infections, is also found crossing the ‘safe’...
City Desk :The Bangladesh High Commission in Australia’s Canberra launched the “Bangladesh Expatriate Awards” to recognise the contributions of Bangladeshi expatriates in Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji.The Bangladesh High Commission on Saturday conferred nine expatriate Bangladeshis with the award for their lawful remittance sending....
AP :Jailed former Pakistani premier Imran Khan’s party elected Saturday a new head for the first time since it was...