US immigration authorities removed over 270,000 people last financial year, figures showed Thursday, weeks before Donald Trump takes office threatening to deport millions of migrants, reports AFP. The tally of removals is the final annual report under President Joe Biden, and is higher than at any time in the last decade — including during Trump’s first term as president. The ...

The Aedes mosquito-borne disease dengue seems to be spreading unabated this year. The number of dengue cases has been increasing during the winter and the deaths are getting longer. On Friday (December 20), dengue claimed one more life in the last 24 hours and at the same time, 83 new patients were hospitalised.According to entomologists, the reason behind the outbreak ...

The transformation of the garment industry in Bangladesh is an important occasion. FM and JACK launched the new sewing machine Urus C7 and AMH to achieve that goal. The event was organised at a hotel in Chittagong. The machine is capable of “small order, quick response and demand-based production”. The whole event was organised by FM Bangladesh and JACK to ...

Interim Government’s Civil Aviation, Tourism and Land Adviser AF Hassan Ariff’s second namaj-e-janaza was held on the High Court premises on Saturday morning. Judges of the Supreme Court and High Court divisions, the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association and other lawyers attended the funeral. Earlier on Friday, after Esha prayers, Ariff’s first janaza was held at Baitul Aman ...

An estimated four million people in the UK are preparing to spend the Christmas and new year period overseas, according to a travel trade organisation. Abta said Sunday will be the busiest day for departures between Friday and January 2, with Christmas Day the quietest. It identified the most popular destinations for winter sun holidays as the Canary Islands, southern ...

The government has appointed 30 new Labour peers including a string of ex-MPs and Sir Keir Starmer loyalists. The prime minister’s former chief of staff Sue Gray has also been handed a seat in the House of Lords, confirming reports earlier in the week. It comes only two months after she left her role as the prime minister’s chief of ...

The heart is fundamentally a quite simple organ. It’s a pump, composed of four chambers, with a few valves, tubes and clever wiring. However, when the pump fails to function properly, the situation becomes serious. In individuals with severe heart failure, the pump is so weak that it cannot efficiently circulate blood throughout the body. Those affected experience severe shortness ...

Who says carrot peels are just trash? These vibrant, nutrient-packed strips are actually super useful in the kitchen. Full of flavour, carrot peels can instantly level up your everyday meals. In a world where food waste is a big deal, reusing veggie peels is a small but smart step to take, reports NDTV. Since carrots are everywhere this winter, here ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus returned home on Friday (December 20) evening wrapping up his Egypt tour to attend the 11th D-8 Summit. “A flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the chief adviser and his entourage reached the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka around 5:00pm,” Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder told BSS. On Thursday (Dec 19), ...

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved three operations totaling US$1.16 billion to help Bangladesh improve health services, boost water and sanitation services and achieve greener and climate-resilient development. “Bangladesh is among the most vulnerable countries to climate change and faces the greatest pollution challenges. Improving climate resilience in every sector and tackling the pollution scourge has become ...