A 15-year-old boy has been rescued from a container, shipped to Malaysia’s Klang port from Chattogram, Chattogram port authorities said on Wednesday. SM Foysal Ahmed, assistant manager of Continental Traders, said the Integra was shipped from Chattogram port to Klang port in Malaysia on January 12 and reached the latter on January 16, reports UNB. Hearing screams coming from an ...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Thursday made a shock announcement she had “no more in the tank” to continue leading the country and would step down no later than early February and not seek re-election. Ardern, holding back tears, said that it had been a tough five and a half years as prime minister and that she was ...

U.K. inflation eased for a second month in December, boosting confidence that the cost-of-living crisis has peaked. Consumer prices rose 10.5% in the year through December, down from 10.7% the previous month, the Office for National Statistics said Wednesday. Inflation peaked at a 41-year high of 11.1% in October. While the drop is welcome, inflation is still running at levels ...

US biotech company Moderna on Tuesday announced positive interim trial results for its vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in adults over the age of 60. There are no jabs currently available for the virus, which is a top cause of lower respiratory diseases, commonly leading to bronchiolitis in children and pneumonia in the elderly. However numerous vaccines and treatments ...

According to new research led by psychologists at the University of Bath in the UK, adults with high levels of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms are more likely to experience anxiety and depression than adults with high levels of autistic traits. This study is the first to show that ADHD is more predictive of poor mental health outcomes in adults ...

Russia’s largest bank Sberbank said Wednesday that it was launching operations on the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014, and would open offices there this year despite Western sanctions against companies working there. “Sberbank has put together a team and is starting to work on the Crimean peninsula,” said the lender, which was hit with Western sanctions over Moscow’s ...

Habiganj Correspondent : A primary school teacher has been arrested for allegedly selling new textbooks. Ayesha Akter, daughter of late Abdullah Mia of village Kadamtali under Shayestaganj upazila in Habiganj district, is the headmistress of Kadamtali Non-Government Registered Primary School. The 45-year old teacher was detained by Upazila Education Officer Mohammad Ali along with others from Nasratour on Tuesday (January ...

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Wednesday announced the appointment of David Moore as its head of programmes. The 58-year-old Australian cricket professional has agreed to a two-year term with the BCB which starts next month, reports UNB. Moore will be responsible for planning, devising strategies, and implementing the high performance (HP) and Tigers’ programmes to ensure that they serve the ...

After electricity, now the government has hiked the gas prices for public, private and captive power plants and also for industries and commercial users. The new prices will be effective from February 1, according to a gazette notification issued on Wednesday. As per the gazette notification, the public and private power plants including the IPP and rental power plants will ...

At least 70 people have died in a wave of freezing temperatures sweeping Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday, as extreme weather compounds a humanitarian crisis in the poverty-stricken nation. Since January 10, the mercury has plunged in Kabul and several other provinces, with the central region of Ghor recording the lowest reading of -33°C over the weekend. “This winter is ...