The government has taken an initiative to sell egg at affordable price at 13 places under Dhaka North and South City Corporations from Sunday (November 10). Mohammad Alim Akhter Khan, director general of the Directorate of National Consumers’ Right Protection (DNCRP), told this while addressing a programme at the FDC in the capital on Saturday. The consumers will be able ...

The United States has charged an Iranian man in connection with an alleged plot ordered by Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, the Justice Department said on Friday. In a statement, the department said that Farhad Shakeri had informed law enforcement “that he was tasked on October 7, 2024, with providing a plan to kill” Trump, ...

Workers of TNZ Apparels Ltd in Gazipur blocked Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Maleker Bari area of Gazipur city demanding their unpaid dues. The protest began around 9:30AM on Saturday, halting vehicular movement on the highway. The blockade caused a heavy traffic congestion several kilometers long in both the Mymensingh and Tangail directions, as well as towards Dhaka. Bason Police Station OC ...

Five more people died from dengue and 466 others were hospitalised after being infected by the viral disease during the last 24 hours till Friday morning. With latest casualties, the death toll from the mosquito-borne disease reached 45 in the first eight days of the current month. This year dengue has claimed 342 lives so far. Of them, 134 died ...

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has received a death threat. He received a threat over a call. It is also said that a case has been registered at Bandra Police Station, in Mumbai. A leading news platform of India News18 has learned that a resident of Raipur, Chhattisgarh, named Faizan had made the threatening call. Sources added that a Mumbai ...

In the past, coffee was associated with increased health risks. But research from the last decade finds that drinking coffee may actually benefit your health. Caffeine is the most popular psychoactive drug in the world. Humans have been drinking coffee, a natural source of caffeine, for centuries, but there have been mixed messages around its effect on human health for ...

The Princess of Wales will attend Remembrance events in London at the weekend, Buckingham Palace has said. She will attend both the Sunday service at the Cenotaph and the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday evening. The princess has been gradually returning to public royal duties following her cancer treatment. The Queen’s attendance will be subject ...

A lung-cancer screening programme that sees mobile clinics visit local communities in England has detected the disease earlier in more than 5,000 people. Specially adapted lorries have been visiting supermarkets, football grounds and town centres in areas with the highest rates of the disease, as part of the biggest initiative of its kind in NHS history. Since the programme’s launch, ...

Six trucks loaded with 33,810 kilogram sugar smuggled from India were seized in Sylhet on Thursday. The police also arrested a youth, Md Hasan, 19, resident of Sunamganj’s Nagdipur village, for his involvement in smuggling the sugar, the police said. Sylhet Metropolitan Police additional deputy commissioner Mohammad Saiful Islam told that a team of Detective Branch of the SMP set-up ...

The Bangladesh Jewellers Association (BAJUS) has announced to reduce gold prices by Tk 3, 452 per bhori (11.664g) in the country as the cost of pure gold falls in the local market This information was provided in a press release signed by Masudur Rahman, the chairman of BAJUS’S pricing and market monitoring permanent committee, on Thursday. The price of each ...