Seven more people died of dengue while 1,243 new patients were hospitalised with the Aedes mosquito-borne disease across Bangladesh in the past 24 hours till Thursday morning. According to the daily update of Directorate General of Health Services, with the new counts, the number of hospitalised dengue patients has reached 61,817 so far this year, and 297 people died among ...

A major conspiracy is going on against Jatiya Party (JaPa) terming it “an ally of Awami League,” JaPa Chairman GM Quader has claimed. “But, we were not involved in any misdeed of Awami League,” he said while speaking at an urgently convened press conference at the Jatiya Party head office at Banani in the capital on Friday (November 1) morning ...

A Dhaka court has placed former housing and public works minister RAM Obaidul Muktadir Chowdhury on a five-day remand in a case filed over BNP activist Makbul Hossain murder case at Paltan police station. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Judge Mehra Mahbub placed the accused on remand on Friday afternoon. Prior to the ruling, the investigating officer, sub-inspector Nazmul Hasan applied for ...

Republican Donald Trump, who is running again for the White House, has strongly condemned the “barbaric violence against Hindus, Christians, and other minorities who are getting attacked and looted by mobs in Bangladesh”. “It would have never happened on my watch. Kamala and Joe have ignored Hindus across the world and in America. They have been a disaster from Israel ...

The ban on using polythene and polypropylene bags in all markets across the country officially began from Friday (November 1). On September 24, interim government advisor on environment, forest, and climate change, Syeda Rizwana Hasan, announced that from November 1, all types of plastic bags would be prohibited, and no customer should be given such bags. The Department of Environment ...

Law Adviser Dr Asif Nazrul will look into administrative and financial issues at the Speaker’s office of Jatiya Sangsad, said Chief Adviser’s press secretary Shafiqul Alam on Thursday. The Press Secretary came up with the updates while briefing the media at Foreign Service Academy on the meeting of the Council of Advisers held with Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus in ...

Former housing and public works minister RAM Obaidul Muktadir Chowdhury was arrested from Mirpur in Dhaka on Thursday night. DMP Additional Commissioner (DB) Rezaul Karim Mallick early Friday said that a team of the Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police detained him. The former minister has been arrested in a murder case filed over the death of a ...

La Liga leaders Barcelona have the chance to move nine points clear of Real Madrid this weekend with victory in the Catalan derby against city rivals Espanyol. After thrashing Real Madrid 4-0 away last weekend Hansi Flick’s side are flying high on confidence and can build a huge lead over their arch-rivals. Madrid’s game at Valencia has been postponed after ...

Six government medical colleges across the country have been renamed after their respective districts Sheikh Hasina Medical College in Jamalpur and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical College in Faridpur, have been renamed showing the respective district names, instead of an individual’s name. The Medical Education and Family Welfare Division under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Wednesday (October 30) ...

This was a huge, change-making budget. Don’t let anyone tell you there isn’t much difference between the main parties at Westminster. This was a Budget with Labour’s instincts and worldview stamped throughout it. There are the tax rises visible from near-earth orbit, the self imposed borrowing rules shredded and re-written – to allow more borrowing – and big wads of ...