A school boy was killed and three others injured after being run over by a truck in Sylhet city on Wednesday night. The accident took place at around 10 pm on the Sylhet-Airport road near Malnichhara tea garden. The dead Tanjim, 16, son of Rajan Mia, a resident of Dakshin Surma Kuchai area in Sylhet, was an SSC candidate from ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Thursday met Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev at the COP29 climate summit venue in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. During the meeting, they discussed issues of mutual interest, according to a message received here. Earlier, Non-Resident Ambassador of Azerbaijan Elchin Huseynli in a meeting with Prof Yunus here stressed the need for deeper trade ties between ...

An elderly man succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Dhaka following a clash between two groups over a minor incident at Dharampasha upazila in Sunamganj district. The victim, Mohammad Ali, 65, from Shorishyam village in the upazila, passed away on Monday night at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. According to police and local sources, around noon of October 28, ...

Four advisers met with the injured of the July-August mass uprising, who were protesting for better treatment, at National Orthopedic Hospital and Rehabilitation Institute (NITOR) early Thursday. The advisers arrived on the scene hurriedly around 2:30AM to meet the wounded protesters and addressed them. They assured them of giving proper treatment and rehabilitation. Getting assurance, the protesting injured returned to ...

Former Awami League lawmaker from Dhaka-7 constituency Solaiman Salim, son of Haji Salim, was arrested from Gulshan area in the capital early Thursday. A team from Chawkbazar Police Station arrested him from a house of Gulshan. The police station OC Rezaul Hossain confirmed this to media around 1:30AM. On secret information, a police force arrested Solaiman Salim at 1:15AM in ...

Screening men born with a high risk of developing prostate cancer, once they reach the age of 45, makes financial sense, a cancer charity says. But Prostate Cancer Research also acknowledges more accurate tests would be needed to justify screening all men. There is no prostate-cancer screening programme in the UK, unlike those for breast, bowel and cervical cancer. Instead, ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning what she calls the “biggest pension reform in decades” in an attempt to boost growth. The government wants to merge the UK’s 86 council pension schemes into a handful of “pension megafunds”. It is hoped the changes will lead to billions of pounds being invested in the UK in areas such as energy infrastructure, tech ...

Hospices will receive extra support to ease the burden of rising National Insurance (NI) contributions, the health secretary has promised. The hospice sector has warned that increased employer NI contributions, following the Budget, and rising wage bills could create a shortfall of tens of millions of pounds next year. Hospice care is free to use, but unlike the NHS, hospices ...

Up to 115 Post Office branches and hundreds of head office jobs are at risk as part of a radical shake-up of the business. The Post Office is looking at options for its wholly-owned branches, which currently employ about 1,000 workers and are loss-making. These could include alternative franchise arrangements where an operator like the retailer WHSmith or another third ...

Failing hospitals will be revealed in league tables and NHS managers sacked if they do not turn things around, the health secretary has told health leaders at a conference in Liverpool. Wes Streeting is promising a “no-holds-barred, sweeping review” of NHS performance in England. Hospitals can expect to be ranked on indicators such as care delivery and finances, so patients ...