Government efforts are going on to stabilise the prices of essential commodities centering the upcoming Ramadan, said Commerce Adviser Sheikh Bashiruddin on Saturday. “We are striving to maintain a balance between supply and demand to ensure affordability. For this, we expect collective efforts and public cooperation.” Commerce Adviser Bashiruddin said these at a scholarship cheque distribution event at the Dhaka ...

Lung cancer is one of the most prevalent and lethal forms of cancer worldwide. It is the top malignancy among the male population in Bangladesh. It is characterised by the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the lungs, which can form tumors and interfere with normal respiratory function. Lung cancer is primarily classified into two main types: non-small cell lung ...

Marius Borg Høiby, the eldest son of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit, has been arrested in Oslo on suspicion of rape, Norwegian police reported. The 27-year-old, who is the stepson of Crown Prince Haakon, was taken into custody on Monday night under a preliminary charge. Authorities allege that Borg Høiby engaged in sexual intercourse with someone who was “unconscious or for ...

Winter’s cozy appeal often tempts us to indulge in comfort foods and stay indoors, making it harder to keep the extra kgs off. With colder weather and lower motivation to stay active, cravings for rich, hearty meals increase. However, winter doesn’t have to mean weight gain—by following simple, effective strategies, you can maintain or even improve your fitness throughout the ...

Sylhet Metropolitan Police have rescued a mentally unstable woman who had gone missing from Dhaka’s Kafrul area. The Kotwali Police rescued her from Bandar Bazar in the city on Thursday, said officer-in-charge of the police station, Md Ziaul Haque. The woman, identified as Sabera Sultana, 55, is the wife of the late Syed Amir Shah Rahmani, and lives at Purba ...

The drivers of battery-operated auto-rickshaws staged demonstration at Jurain of Dhaka blocking roads and railway tracks on Friday afternoon, demanding the withdrawal of a High Court directive banning battery-operated rickshaws. They halted two trains –Narayanganj Commuter and Nakshikantha Commuter. As a result, train services between Dhaka-Narayanganj and Dhaka-Mawa-Padma Bridge came to a standstill. The demonstration escalated into a confrontation with ...

An 18-member central executive committee of the Anti-discrimination Student Movement has been formed. It was informed through a notification signed by the organization’s convener Hasnat Abdullah and member secretary Arif Sohel on Thursday (November 21). It also announced that the members of the central committee, formed on October 22, will serve as ex-officio members of this committee. In the central ...

Eighty-two more Bangladeshi national returned home from war-torn Lebanon on Thursday night. With them, a total of 697 Bangladeshi citizens, so, far, have returned home from Lebanon. The flight, ‘EK-584’, carrying the expatriates landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) around 11pm, said a media release sent from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Officials from the government and the International ...

The High Court (HC) is set to deliver its verdict any day on the death references and appeals of the August 21 grenade attack cases. A high court bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Syed Enayet Hossain kept the death references (trial court documents for confirmation of death sentences) and the appeals, filed by the convicted accused in the ...

US President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday he would nominate former Florida Attorney General and loyalist Pam Bondi to be US Attorney General, moving swiftly to replace his former nominee Matt Gaetz after the embattled former congressman withdrew from consideration. Gaetz was the subject of a House Ethics Committee probe into allegations of having sex with an underage 17-year-old girl ...