Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes his guitar and ukulele. In the recovery unit of UC San Diego Health, Salaysay helps patients manage pain after surgery. Along with medications, he offers tunes on request and sometimes sings. His repertoire ranges from folk songs in English and Spanish to ...

Actor Hero Alam has announced his divorce from wife Riya Moni, through a milk bath ritual, confirming that legal proceedings have been initiated through formal channels. The announcement came during a public gathering on Saturday afternoon at M Block, Aftabnagar in Dhaka. Hero Alam stated that his lawyer has completed the necessary documentation, and the divorce papers will be officially ...

The Louvre Museum in Paris was closed on Sunday after a theft occurred inside the world-renowned institution, France’s culture minister confirmed. “A robbery took place this morning at the opening of the Louvre Museum,” Culture Minister Rachida Dati wrote on X, adding that she had visited the site and that an investigation was underway. The museum announced it would close ...

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has officially published the Authentic English Text of the Income Tax Act, 2023 through a government gazette notification issued on October 16, 2025. The Income Tax Act, 2023 was originally enacted in Bangla, replacing the Income Tax Ordinance, 1984. Since its enactment, foreign investors and stakeholders had been urging the government to issue an ...

Teachers and staff from MPO-listed secondary schools, colleges and madrasas at Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar district formed a human chain on Sunday, pressing for the implementation of their three-point demand and protesting what they termed a “brutal attack” on demonstrating teachers in Dhaka. The demonstration took place at Station Choumuhani area of Kulaura town, with participants carrying banners from their ...

A rampant Lionel Messi scored a sensational hat-trick to virtually seal Major League Soccer’s Golden Boot award on Saturday as Inter Miami roared into the playoffs with a 5-2 victory over Nashville SC. The Argentine superstar came into the final day of the regular season leading the scoring table with 26 goals — two more than Los Angeles FC’s Denis ...

London, 19 November 2025 : The general meeting and election of the ‘Council of Mosques’, the central organization managing the mosques of Tower Hamlets, were successfully held at the London Muslim Centre on Saturday, 18 November 2025. The new executive committee was elected through direct voting by the organization’s councillors and representatives. The election was conducted by Executive Mayor of ...

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Sunday fixed October 28 for hearing a state plea challenging a High Court judgment that barred keeping death-row convicts in solitary confinement until their sentences are finalised. A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury, passed the order following a plea filed by Advocate Mohammad Shishir ...

MPO-listed teachers have announced to continue their movement, rejecting the government decision of increasing house rent allowance by 5 per cent of the basic salary (minimum Tk 2,000) to teachers. They started chanting slogan at Central Shaheed Minar to fulfill their three demands, including 20 per cent house rent allowance. The Finance Division issued a gazette, approving the house rent ...

Israel returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza on Saturday, bringing the total number handed over to 135, the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said. Under a ceasefire deal brokered by US President Donald Trump, Israel was to turn over the bodies of 15 Palestinians for every deceased Israeli returned. Late on Friday, Hamas handed over the body ...