A teenage boy was killed and three others were injured in a lightning strike at Dharmapasha upazila in Sunamganj district on Tuesday morning. The dead was Omar Faruk, 15, son of late Alim Uddin, a resident of Badeharipur village under Joysree union. It was known that two farmers and two teenagers were going to Madhyanagar Bazar by an engine-driven boat ...

The World Health Organization on Monday won basic approval for a $6.83-billion budget over the next two years, including a 20-percent hike in mandatory membership fees. As the UN health agency kicked off its annual decision-making assembly, member states in a key committee approved the budget without objection, AFP reports. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hailed the move as “historic ...

The UK government on Tuesday announced a package of measures aimed at international students, including a ban on some family members, as ministers come under growing pressure to cut immigration, AFP reports. After a drop during the pandemic, net migration has been steadily on the rise and is reportedly expected to hit a record high this year. Official figures published ...

Agriculture Minister Md. Abdur Razzaque on Tuesday inaugurated a model house for onion preservation and expressed hopes that its successful storage will address the instability and crisis of onions in the country. “Although the country produces an excess amount of onions, one-third of it goes to waste, leading to onion shortage, abnormal prices, and the need for import from neighbouring ...

A weeks-long battle against wildfires in western Canada finally reached a “turning point” on Monday with scattered rains reported over hotspots and more precipitation to come, officials said. The wildfires in Alberta province have displaced tens of thousands of people and scorched more than 945,000 hectares. “We have received rain, I understand, on almost every wildfire that’s currently burning in ...

The fire at a schoolgirls’ dormitory that killed 19 people in Guyana may have been started “maliciously,” police said Monday, as anger grew in the small South American country the day after the blaze. Sunday’s inferno gutted a building housing girls aged 11-12 and 16-17. Guyana Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken said during a press conference Monday afternoon that an “initial ...

Newcastle players celebrate reaching the Champions League. Photograph: Lee Smith/Action Images/Reuters Shortly before kick-off Newcastle fans unfurled an enormous banner emblazoned with the message: “Bad times don’t last but legends do.” Those words were superimposed on giant images of Eddie Howe and his players in recognition of their completion of one of football’s more remarkable transformations. When Howe took charge ...

Optimism that the United States will avert a calamitous default supported equities Tuesday, with President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy saying they held productive talks on the debt ceiling. With just weeks to go before the country runs out of cash, the standoff has become the key topic on trading floors on fears that a US failure to ...

Food is medicine. If you’re struggling with pain from arthritis, eating foods that have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties — along with any drugs or other treatments your doctor recommends — may help. “Research is ongoing, but scientists already have found that certain foods may reduce arthritis-related inflammation and pain,” says registered dietitian Andrea Dunn, RD, LD, CDE. Here are ...

Moulvibazar District Awami League held a protest march and rally against the threat to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. On Monday (May 22) at noon, the procession left the city’s Shaheed Minar premises and circled the Court Road and held a short rally at Central Road under the leadership of District Awami League President Neshar Ahmad MP and General Secretary ...