Glaucoma, an eye disease that damages the optic nerve and can result in vision loss and blindness, can now be treated with a simple injection, eye surgeons have said. In glaucoma, eye pressure plays a role in damaging the optic nerve. A new technology developed by a US-based company relieves the pressure in the eye with a minimally invasive method, ...

Nepali soldiers and police have recovered the bodies of 53 trekkers and villagers buried in avalanches set off by an earthquake in April, and were digging through snow and rocks with shovels and hoes on Monday for signs of more victims. Search and rescue operations had been suspended in the village of Langtang, 60 km (40 miles) north of Kathmandu, ...

At least 17 people were killed and 32 injured after a passenger truck plunged off a 150-metre-high cliff in Peru’s Amazonian region, authorities said on Monday. The accident occurred on Sunday in north-central Huanuco department after the vehicle veered out of its lane and plunged off near the town of Cahuah, Xinhua quoted the highway police as saying. More than ...

Bangladesh is ending the 2014-15 financial year on a high in terms of export earnings. According to Export Promotion Bureau statistics released on Monday, the country earned $28.14 billion from exports in the first 11 months of the current fiscal that began July 1 last year. The figure is around 3 percent higher than export earnings of the same previous ...

Bangladesh ODI captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza has said the home side should first think about a draw against India in the one-off Test and be ‘realistic’. The match will start on Wednesday at Fatullah’s Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium. “(We) have to bat very well. But just batting well does not win Tests, only helps draw them. Wickets and strategies ...

Kishoreganj’s absconding Razakar commander Syed Md Hasan Ali will have to die for massacring his own people to stop Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan, a court says.   The first war crimes tribunal delivered the verdict on Tuesday after five out of the six charges had been proven beyond doubt. The verdict by the International Crimes Tribunal-1 said the “death be ...

Smoking is bad not only for the smokers’ health, it annually pushes thousands of children into poverty in England, a study has revealed. Smoking places a financial burden on low-income families, suggesting that parents are likely to forgo basic household and food necessities in order to fund their addiction. “Smoking reduces the income available for families to feed, clothe and ...

Food group Nestle has withdrawn Maggi noodles from sale in India due to “an environment of confusion for consumers”, following a food scare sparked by reports of excess lead in some packets of the popular instant snack.   Nestle reiterated the noodles were safe, but after coming under fire in local media for reacting too little and too late, the ...

Former Speaker of Parliament Sheikh Razzak Ali has died aged 87. Ali’s family said he breathed his last around 2:45pm on Sunday at his residence at Faraziparha in Khulna City. His sister-in-law Shamima Sultana Shilu told bdnews24.com the veteran politician was suffering from cancer. He said the family was yet to decide about the time of his Namaz-e-Janaza. Ali, a ...

Yemen_535607998At least 44 Yemeni soldiers have been killed and more than a hundred injured in an air strike at Yemeni army headquarters in the capital Sanaa, They were killed while waiting to collect salaries, according to the Houthi-run Saba news agency. Earlier on Sunday, army officials said that four explosions shook the compound in central Sanaa, where the soldiers allied ...