“If I see someone tapping their fingers on a desk, my immediate thought is to chop their fingers off with a knife,” an anonymous patient confides to a researcher. Another shares: “When I see someone making really small repetitive movements, such as my husband bending his toes, I feel physically ill. I hold it back but I want to vomit.” ...

The UK economy shrank for the second month in a row in October as concerns about the Budget continued to weigh on confidence. Official figures showed a 0.1% drop, despite expectations that the economy would return to growth after a fall in September. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that activity had stalled or declined with pubs, restaurants and ...

Barcelona and Real Madrid are looking over their shoulders in La Liga at in-form Atletico Madrid, wary of a letdown after taxing wins away from home in the Champions League this week. A 3-2 victory at Borussia Dortmund ensured Barcelona will advance to the knockout phase of Europe’s top club competition, while Madrid won by the same scoreline away to ...

Noted poet Helal Hafiz passed away in Dhaka on Friday afternoon. He was 76. The Bangla Academy Award winning poet was declared dead when he was taken to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU). The BSMMU authorities said Helal Hafiz suffered from brain hemorrhage falling in the bathroom of Super Hostel, a residential facility at Paribagh area, at about 2:30pm. ...

Timor-Leste President José Ramos-Horta will arrive Bangladesh on Saturday (December 14) at the invitation of Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus. The President will lead a high-level an 18-member delegation, including the minister of foreign affairs, the president’s chief adviser, and other senior officials. Foreign Secretary Md Jashin Uddin informed the media at a press briefing, held at the Ministry of ...

At least six people, including a boy, were killed in a fire at a private hospital in Dindigul of Tamil Nadu in India on Thursday night. The incident took place at around 8PM at City Hospital on Trichy Road, reports NDTV. Sources said that an electrical short circuit at the medical facility was suspected to be the cause of the ...

A total of 85 Bangladeshi citizens returned home from war-torn Lebanon on Friday. They returned on an Ethiopian flight. Officials from the government and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) welcome the returnees at the airport, said a foreign ministry press release. All the returnees received Tk 5,000 in cash, some food items and initial treatment. Some 1,048 Bangladeshis have, ...

Oil supply is set to outpace global demand next year even as OPEC+ members extended cuts in efforts to prop up prices, the International Energy Agency said Thursday. Eight members of the alliance, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, agreed earlier this month to maintain supply cuts of 2.2 million barrels per day (bpd) for three more months through March. But ...

West Indies recorded a commanding four-wicket victory over Bangladesh in the third ODI in St. Kitts, completing a 3-0 series sweep on Thursday. Chasing a big target of 322, the hosts sealed the match with 25 balls to spare, riding on a dream debut century from Amir Jangoo and key contributions from Keacy Carty and Gudakesh Motie, reports UNB. “This ...

The interim government will form a task force soon to check air pollution and it will work till the next monsoon. Syeda Rizwana Hasan Environment, Forest, and Climate Change shared the information during an inter-ministerial meeting held at the Local Government Division’s conference room in the Secretariat in Dhaka on Thursday. She said the government is making every effort to ...