The Society of Speech & Language Therapists (SSLT) conducted a workshop titled ‘Comprehensive Guide to ASD Screening and Diagnosis’ at Bijoy Auditorium in Concord Regency Tower of the capital. Child specialist at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital Dr. Toshiba Rahman, MBBS, DCH, FCPS, and a fellow in Autism from South Korea, served as the chief instructor of the event. The ...

Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives Adviser AF Hassan Ariff has passed away. He died of heart attack at LabAid Hospital in the capital at about 3:10pm today (Friday). His assistant personal secretary (APS) Md Abed Chowdhury has confirmed about his death. Hassan Ariff’s son Muaaz Ariff said his father had suddenly fell down on the floor in their apartment. ...

DNA reports have confirmed that the flesh and bones recovered by the West Bengal police’s criminal investigating department (CID) as part of their investigation into the murder of Bangladesh MP Md Anwarul Azim (Anar) belonged to the slain lawmaker, reports Hindustan Times. The CID collected DNA samples from his daughter, Mumtarin Ferdous Doreen, who came to Kolkata in November this ...

Sri Lanka’s navy had rescued 102 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar adrift in a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island nation, bringing them safely to port. A navy spokesman on Friday said that the group, including 25 children, were taken to Sri Lanka’s eastern port of Trincomalee and they had been provided food and water. “Medical checks have to ...

Bangladesh has been named the ‘County of the year for 2024’ by The Economist, a London-based prestigious magazine. Every year, The Economist chooses one country that has shown the most remarkable improvement over the past year and this year Bangladesh was given the honour. Besides, Syria was the runner-up after ousting its autocrat, Bashar al-Assad. Argentina earned recognition for economic ...

Three people were killed and another was injured when a private car lost control and hit an electricity pole in Sylhet’s Jaintapur upazila on Friday. The accident occurred at around 11 am near to Dhamri Beel in Baghersarak area on the Sylhet-Tamabil road under the upazila. The identities of the dead could not be known immediately. Jaintapur Police Station Officer-in-Charge ...

A case has been filed with the Tongi West Police Station following a fatal clash between two factions of Tablighi Jamaat on Tongi Bishwa Ijtema grounds that killed four people. SM Alam Hossain, an associate of the Alami Shura in the Zubair faction in Kishoreganj, filed a murder case against 29 named and several hundred unnamed people on Thursday, said ...

BNP firmly believes in the freedom of speech, said the party’s Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Thursday (December 19). “We believe in freedom of speech, we believe in democracy. Journalists were not sued in hundreds of cases during the BNP rule,” he said while addressing as the chief guest at a workshop titled ’31 Points’ at Madhabdi in Narisngdi at ...

At least 52 people were killed and 68 others were injured in two separate bus accidents on a highway through central Afghanistan, according to a provincial official on Thursday. One bus collided with a fuel tanker near Shahbaz village in central Ghazni while the other hit a truck in the eastern district of Andar. The accidents happened in Ghazni province ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that the Chief Adviser’s remarks over the next general election is “unclear.” He made the remark while addressing a press conference at the BNP Chairperson’s office at Gulshan in the capital on Thursday (December 19). Mirza Fakhrul said since the Election Commission (EC) has been constituted, there is no need to ...