A new WHO study suggests more than 7 million cases of cancer in 2022 were preventable. Nearly 40% of all the cases that year were caused by modifiable risk factors — behavioral and environmental factors we can change. “We now have the information to prevent cancer before it starts,” said Isabelle Soerjomataram, a cancer surveillance specialist at the International Agency ...

Bangladesh and Japan have signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), granting duty-free access to a wide range of Bangladeshi products in the Japanese market. The information was confirmed through a press release issued by the Press Information Department (PID) on Friday. The agreement was signed in Tokyo during an official ceremony attended by Bangladesh’s Commerce Adviser Sheikh Bashiruddin and Japan’s ...

Inqilab Moncho Member Secretary Abdullah Al Jaber has sustained “bullet injuries” due to police firing while attempting to besiege the chief adviser’s official residence, state guesthouse Jamuna, the group claimed in a Facebook post on Friday. Law enforcers, wearing boots, also kicked the group’s two women activists, Tasnim Juma and Shanta, the group alleged. According to media reports, at least ...

Australian High Commissioner Susan Ryle and Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) Executive Director Brizza Rosales signed an agreement on 27 January to support independent international election observation for the 12 February elections in Bangladesh. Australia values its partnership with Bangladesh, grounded in mutual respect and a shared commitment to democratic principles, the High Commission said in a Facebook post ...

AAP leader Lucky Oberoi was shot dead in Punjab’s Jalandhar on Friday morning while he was leaving the Model Town gurdwara after offering prayers. He was admitted to a private hospital but succumbed to gunshot injuries, police told HT. Two unidentified men riding a motorcycle reached the location and fired 8-10 shots using two highly sophisticated weapons. Visuals after the ...

Real Madrid forward Rodrygo Goes has been handed a two-match ban for insulting a match official during last week’s 4-2 Champions League loss at Benfica, European football governing body UEFA said on 5 February. Brazilian Rodrygo was shown two yellow cards in stoppage time as he angrily protested perceived time-wasting tactics employed by the Portuguese side. UEFA’s disciplinary committee said ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB-55) seized a large quantity of smuggled Indian cumin worth nearly Tk 16 lakh from Madhabpur upazila in Habiganj district early Thursday. Acting on a tip-off, an advance team of 55 BGB Battalion conducted a raid on the Satchhari–Teliapara road in Madhabpur upazila, stopped a suspicious truck and discovered sacks of Indian cumin concealed beneath a truckload ...

A total of 401,460 postal ballots have reached Bangladesh from expatriates registered on the “Postal Vote BD” app for the upcoming 13th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Election and Referendum. Salim Ahmad Khan, Team Leader of the “OCV-SDI” project on expatriate voter registration, confirmed it on Friday morning, saying till 9:30 AM today, 766,862 ballots were dispatched to expatriates through the app. ...

A delegation of Bangladesh Judicial Service Pay Commission met President Mohammed Shahabuddin at Bangabhaban on Thursday. The information was shared with the media by Shabbir Ahmed Akunjee, Private Secretary to Public Division Secretary at the President’s Office. The delegation was led by Justice S M Emdadul Hoque, Chairman of Bangladesh Judicial Service Pay Commission and a judge of the Appellate ...

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