Older adults with cataracts are more likely to be at risk of developing osteoporosis and bone fractures, a study suggests. The findings, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, revealed that the diagnosis of cataracts was associated with a 29% increased risk of developing osteoporosis or fracture, reports Hindustan Times. In analyses for each individual event, the diagnosis ...

Photo: Local people gathering in front of emergency unit to see Manirul’s dead body. Jhenidah, Oct 5 : A truck driver was stabbed to death by miscreants at Zadabpur Dakkhinpara vilalge in Sadar upazila on Thursday night. The deceased was identified as Manirul Islam, 32, a truck driver and son of Najir Biswas. Mahsin Hossain, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station ...

‘Militants planned to blow up Chittagong Court’ photo : Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) conduct a drive at Shonapahar in Mirsarai upazila. Chattogram, Oct 5 : The bodies of two suspected JMB members were recovered from a ‘militant den’ at Zorarganj in Mirsarai upazila on Friday following a Rab operation there. The elite force members recovered the bodies around 11:30 ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. File photo Dhaka, Oct 4 : The High Court on Thursday directed the government to admit BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) immediately and form a 5-member medical board afresh of for her treatment. A bench of Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil passed the order after hearing a writ ...

Ministers speak high of rich heritage Photo: Finance Minister Abul Mal Abdul Muhith addressing at a program at Khazana Gardenia Grand Hall in city’s Gulshan on Thursday. Dhaka, Oct 4 : Finance Minister Abul Mal Abdul Muhith on Thursday expressed optimism about the future of country’s handloom industry. He said government attaches much importance to the promising handicraft sector as ...

Dhaka, Oct 4 : The Appellate division of Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a High Court order that had directed the owners of ‘Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan’ to provide Tk 5 lakh to each family of the two students who were killed in a road crash at Airport Road on July 29. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief ...

Bangladesh put up an extraordinary effort in the field and managed to restrict India to 172/10 in 50 overs during the semifinal of the U-19 Asia Cup at Mirpur’s Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium.   Earlier, India elected to bat first having won the toss.  Shoriful Islam got the scalp of opener Devdutt Paddikal in the third over but India recovered after ...

Tendering a fresh apology in the data breach that affected 50 million users, Facebook has said that a detailed investigation found no evidence that the hackers accessed any third-party apps using Facebook Login.   In the biggest-ever security breach after Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook last week admitted that hackers broke into nearly 50 million users’ accounts by stealing their “access ...

High doses of Viagra — a popular erectile-dysfunction medication — can cause irreverible damage to a person’s colour vision, a first-of-its-kind study suggests.   Researchers from Mount Sinai Health System in the US based their study on a 31-year-old patient who arrived at an urgent care clinic complaining of red-tinted vision in both eyes that had not gone away in ...

Kurdish rebels on Thursday detonated an explosive device on a road in southeast Turkey, killing at least seven soldiers, a senior official said. Two other soldiers were wounded in the attack. The explosion occurred on a road near the town of Gercus in the majority-Kurdish province of Batman. Numan Kurtulmus, a deputy chairman of Turkey’s ruling party, said the soldiers, ...