A visiting Chinese medical team from Wuhan Third Hospital has continued its collaborative efforts with Bangladeshi healthcare professionals at National Institute of Burns and Plastic Surgery. During their ongoing visit, the Chinese doctors and nurses reaffirmed their commitment to supporting Bangladesh in treating the injured, expressing a willingness to assist in every possible way, according to a statement from Chinese ...

A group of British MPs, including dozens from the ruling Labour party, demanded Friday that the UK government formally recognise a Palestinian state, further increasing pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The call, in a letter signed by lawmakers from nine UK political parties, came less than 24 hours after French President Emmanuel Macron said that his country would formally ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) could pose a major challenge in the upcoming national, said Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Saturday. “It is a modern threat, more dangerous than weapons.” CEC Nasir Uddin said this while speaking at a views-exchange meeting on the 13th general election held at the office of the Khulna regional election officer. He emphasised the need ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has expressed grave concern over the current state of governance in Bangladesh, stating that law and order, particularly within the police force, remains unchanged and extortion is on the rise. He made these remarks at the launch and discussion of Dr. Hossain Zillur Rahman’s book titled “Arthoneeti, Shashon O Khomota: Japito Jiboner Alekhya” ...

The death toll from the jet crash on Milestone School and College premises in the capital’s Uttara area rose to 35 with the death of an office assistant of the school whose 90 per cent body parts were burnt in the crash incident. Masuma, 38, an ayah (support staff) of the school, breathed her last at the ICU of National ...

Top footballers are afraid to speak out against playing too many matches for fear of the impact it could have on their careers, the general secretary of global players’ union FIFPro said on Friday. Alex Phillips was speaking after FIFPro held a meeting in Amsterdam with 58 national player unions from around the world to discuss concerns over the way ...

Chief Coordinator (South Region) of Jatiya Nagorik Party (NCP) Hasnat Abdullah has stated that the party has emerged by defeating fascism from national crisis but not through corruption or political favoritism. He made the remarks while speaking at a rally in Sylhet’s Shahid Minar premises on Friday (July 25), as part of the ‘July March to Build the Nation’ campaign. ...

Nahid Islam, convener of the National Citizen Party (NCP), has accused former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of leaving behind a “fitness-deficient and dysfunctional” state, lacking in both governance and accountability. Speaking at a street rally held at Alfat Square in Sunamganj town on Friday afternoon, Nahid Islam said, “We are living in a country where public transport vehicles have no ...

Another student injured in Milestone School and College fighter jet crash has died, raising the official death toll to 33. Makin, 14, a seventh-grader at the school, succumbed to his injuries Friday afternoon while undergoing treatment at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery. Dr. Shawon Bin Rahman, a resident physician at the institute, confirmed that Makin had sustained ...

People who walk 7,000 steps a day have a dramatically lower risk of a broad range of serious health problems, the largest review of the evidence yet said Thursday. The most widely promoted target for people tracking their number of steps is 10,000 — but that figure reportedly originally came from a 1960s marketing campaign for a Japanese pedometer. To ...