The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), the country’s main capital market, indexes saw an upward trend in the first hour on Thursday. Till 11am on the day, the trading record in the DSE shows, shares and units of 5.53 crore exchange through 53763 transactions. In this time shares and mutual funds worth Tk 163.4 crore were traded. A total of 369 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Scientists have been grappling with the mystery of moon’s origin for hundreds of years. The mystery partly solved in 1980s as experts then discovered that the lunar satellite was formed as the aftermath of an explosive impact with the Proto-planet Theia early in Earth’s history. But a recent study came up with another jaw-dropping theory on moon’s origin, denying the ...

The first song and official trailer of Dhallywood superstar Shakib Khan– starrer movie “Dorod” have been published. However, the Anonno Mamun-directed movie is set to hit the theatres on Friday. The film’s song was released in two languages “Ei Bhasao” (Bengali) and “Jism Mein Tere” (Hindi) released simultaneously on Monday. Balam and Konal have lent their voice to the Bengali ...