Patients continue to lose their lives due to ‘wrong treatment’ across the country, shattering people’s confidence in physicians. Families of the victims are running after the authorities concerned in many cases seeking punishment for the accused. But the physicians are hardly getting punished in the absence of a specific strong law. A large number of patients died due to alleged ...

Price of fertilizer has increased by 105% in Bangladesh while sugar’s price by 60%, petrol’s price by 47%, and sanitary pads by 23%, according to a new study conducted by the international humanitarian organization ActionAid. The cost of living in Bangladesh has gone up across multiple parameters, hitting the marginalized communities the hardest, the report said. “Communities are facing multiple ...

Three of family members drowned while a boat sank in a water-body in Gobindapur in Sunamganj on SundaThe deceased were daughters of Sohel Ahmed of Gobindapur village– Tonni, 12, Tanni, 8, and his son Robiul, 3. Officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station Ikhtier Uddin Chowdhury said the three children were in Kharcha haor in the morning to catch fish. At one ...

Some low-lying areas in five upazilas of Sunamganj municipal were inundated with flood water as the water levels of Surma, Jadukata, Kushiyara and Rokti rivers have been increasing due to non-stop rainfall and downhill from upstream. Around 6 lakh residents of those areas are facing immense sufferings. At the same time, more than 20 lakh people of Bhatir district are ...

More rain is likely across the country over 24 hours, starting from 9 am today, as monsoon is active, Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) predicted. “Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind are likely to occur at most places in Rangpur, Rajshahi, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions; and at many places in Khulna, Dhaka, Barishal and Chattogram divisions ...

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said her target is to change the fate of the countrymen. “My target is to change the fate of the people of Bangladesh,” she said in an introductory speech at Tungipara Upazila Awami League office while exchanging greetings and views with people of all strata of lives of Tungipara on ...

The first return hajj flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines with 419 pilgrims will arrive in Dhaka on Monday (July 3). The national flag carrier’s aircraft is scheduled to land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 6:05am with the pilgrims. It will left Saudi Arabia on Sunday night. The return flights will continue till August 2. A total of 1,22,884 people ...

French authorities deployed reinforcements to flashpoint cities and had made hundreds of arrests by early Sunday, on the fifth night of unrest sparked by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old who was laid to rest the day before. A total of 486 people had been arrested across France as of 3:00 am (0100 GMT) Sunday, the interior ministry said, ...

Offices, banks, insurance companies and share market reopened on Sunday (July 2) after four-day of holy Eid-ul-Azha holiday and one day weekend ended on Saturday. But presence of officials and employees are fewer on the first day after Eid vacation. Joining respective workplaces on Sunday, ministers, state ministers, secretaries, officials and employees exchanged Eid greetings. From Saturday night, Dhaka started ...

Offices, banks, insurance companies, and share market are going to open on Sunday The holy Eid-ul-Azha’s four-day holiday and one day weekend ended on Saturday. Offices, courts, banks, insurance companies, and stock markets are going to open on Sunday (July 2). Eid-ul-Azha, one of the biggest festivals of Muslim Ummah, is celebrated across the country on Thursday with honour of ...