A total of 198 law officers have been appointed in different courts in Mymensingh and Moulvibazar. Of the newly appointed officials, 42 were appointed in Moulvibazar and 156 in Mymensingh in the district and session judge courts and other subordinate courts, different tribunals and special judge courts. Separate orders by the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs were issued ...

Tropical Storm Trami has killed at least 26 people and forced more than 150,000 to flee their homes in the Philippines, officials said on Thursday, as it made landfall on the northeastern coast. Trami, locally known as severe tropical storm Kristine, dumped heavy to torrential rain on the main island of Luzon triggering widespread flooding and landslides. With maximum sustained ...

The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), Bangladesh’s premier capital market, witnessed a significant drop in its key index, with the DSEX falling by 60.28 points during the first 2.5 hours of trading on Thursday. According to DSE records, transactions worth Tk 140 crore took place during this period. While 67 companies saw their stock prices rise, the broader market struggled as ...

Seven people died from dengue and 1,138 more people were admitted with the viral fever in last 24 hours till Wednesday morning. With the new fatalities, the death toll rose to 264, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Of the deaths, three  were reported in Barishal division (Excluding CC), two in Dhaka North City Corporation, One in ...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has played down the significance of alleged interference by the Labour Party in the US presidential election. The Trump campaign has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in Washington seeking an immediate investigation into alleged “blatant foreign interference”. Sir Keir, who met Trump last month, said party staff going to the US to ...

Health Secretary Wes Streeting will vote against changing the law on assisted dying, the BBC has confirmed. Backbench Labour MP Kim Leadbeater has put forward a bill proposing that terminally ill adults nearing the end of their lives get the right to choose to shorten their deaths if they wish. But in a meeting of Labour MPs on Monday, Streeting ...

The previous government’s Ministry of Health initiated the amendment of the Smoking and Tobacco Products Usage (Control) Act without consulting stakeholders and sector-related parties. This law, originally enacted in 2005, was amended once in 2013. In 2022, the ministry again took the initiative to amend this law, which was later diverted to the originating Ministry under the pressure of public ...

King Charles has arrived in Samoa for a four-day state visit where he will preside for the first time over a gathering of Commonwealth presidents and prime ministers. Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa greeted the King and Queen Camilla at Faleolo International Airport where a red carpet had been rolled out amid high winds and last-minute vacuum cleaning. The Royal ...

A vaccine is to be trialled on thousands of people to find out if it could protect against norovirus – a stomach bug that causes vomiting and diarrhoea. The easily spreadable winter virus can affect people of all ages and have huge consequences – often closing hospital wards, taking children out of school and keeping parents off work. The vaccine ...

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered six detonators and six explosives from the Baragop Tila area of ​​Tahirpur upazila in Sunamganj. On a tip-off, explosives were recovered early on Wednesday (October 23) in the Baragop Tila area of ​​Baradal Uttar Union of Tahirpur Upazila. In a press release, RAB-9 Sylhet media officer Moshiur Rahman Sohel said ...