The number of people admitted to hospital in Scotland with alcohol-related brain damage has reached a 10-year high.   A total of 661 people required treatment for brain injury after alcohol misuse between 2016-17, the equivalent of nearly two people a day.  Alcohol-related brain damage can lead to problems with memory and learning.   NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde had ...

Cristiano Ronaldo, Luka Modric and Mohamed Salah make up the three-man shortlist for the UEFA Player of the Year award for the 2017/18 season, European football’s governing body announced on Monday (Aug 20).   Ronaldo – the winner in each of the last two years – and Modric both starred for Real Madrid as the Spanish giants won the Champions ...

India captain Virat Kohli’s second century of the series strengthened his side’s iron grip on the third Test against England at Trent Bridge on Monday.   Kohli, who fell for 97 in India’s first innings, top-scored with 103 as the tourists, looking to bounce back from 2-0 down in a five-match contest, piled up a total of 352 for seven ...

Today is horrifying August 21. The country, on this day 14 years ago, experienced one of the deadliest, barbaric and bizarre incidents in its history that stunned the whole nation. Miscreants hurled grenades at a rally of the then opposition Awami League (AL) on Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital on August 21, 2004 leaving at least 24 people dead, including ...

Eleven people were killed and seven others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a human-hauler at Darikandi village on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Belabo upazila of Narsingdi on Monday night. Of the deceased, one hailed from Sunamganj, one from Sylhet, one from Habiganj, one from Netrokona and one from Narshingdi.   The identities of the deceased could not ...

Dhaka, Aug 21 : Some 52 Bangladeshi pilgrims, who went to Saudi Arabia for performing hajj this year, have so far died in Saudi Arabia. Of them, 43 were males and nine females, according to a bulletin posted at Bangladesh Hajj Management portal under the Religious Affairs Ministry on Monday. Forty-three Bangladeshi pilgrims died in Makkah while six in Madina, ...

Photo: BGMEA Vice President Moinuddin Ahmed speaking at a press conference at BGMEA Bhaban on Monday. Dhaka, Aug 20 : The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), on Monday, said all their member factories have paid out festival bonuses and salaries for the month of July to their workers. Many member factories have also paid advance salary of 10-15 ...

It favors investment in innovative people of Bangladesh Dhaka, Aug 20 : United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director in Bangladesh Derrick Brown has laid emphasis on working together removing barriers to progress with investment in the innovative people of Bangladesh. “We must all work together to strengthen systems and remove barriers to progress, and continue to invest ...

Dhaka, Aug 20 : BNP on Monday alleged that homebound eid holidaymakers are going through immense sufferings due to the ‘poor condition’ of highways and ‘mismanagement’. “People heading home for celebrating Eid-ul-Azha are facing serious ordeal due to the sorry state of roads and highways,” said party senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. He came up with the allegation ...

Applying sunscreen on your body may be good for your skin, but not so much for the fish, a new study has revealed.   Scientists have found that sunscreen from the body of bathers releases significant quantities of polluting titanium dioxide (TiO2) into the sea, which has the potential to harm marine life.  TiO2 is one of the main ingredients ...