The United Nations’ Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated $8 million to provide support to almost a million Rohingya refugees staying in camps in Cox’s Bazar district and on the island of Bhasan Char. The funding allocation to Bangladesh is part of a CERF initiative to support underfunded humanitarian operations in 14 countries in Africa, Asia, the Americas and ...

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayor Md Atiqul Islam and Dhaka South Citry Corporation (DSCC) mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh should resign shouldering responsibilities of their failures to control dengue mosquitoes in the capital, said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday.. He made the remarks after inaugurating blood doination programmes at two hospitals in the capital on ...

At least 426 people were killed and 793 other injured in 441 road crashes across the country in last month. Of these, 171 motorcycle accidents claimed 168 lives and 149 injuries. Of the total accidents, 38.77 per cent were motorcycle accidents, 39.43 percent of total fatalities and 18.78 percent of injuries respectively. Dhaka Division had the highest number of road ...

Former State Minister for Relief and President of Moulvibazar district chapter BNP Advocate Ebadur Rahman died of old age complications while undergoing treatment at a Dhaka hospital on Wednesday afternoon. He was 85. Hasan Ahmed Javed, son-in-law (eldest daughter’s husband) of the former lawmaker who was elected from Moulvibazar-2 constituency (Borolekha and Jhuri upazilas), confirmed it, saying that his father-in-law ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will land in India later this week for the G20 World Leaders’ Summit and can expect a grand welcome from his relatives in New Delhi, according to a UK media report. ‘The Daily Telegraph’ reported over the weekend that Prime Minister Sunak’s relatives will host a feast with flower bouquets and “non-stop dancing” to Punjabi ...

Good quality of sleep is essential for good mental health and more so in patients with anxiety issues. Sleep anxiety is one of the most common reasons behind insomnia or sleeplessness and it works both ways. Here are tips to calm your mind and body before sleeping: In an interview, Dr Vasunethra Kasargod, Consultant – Pulmonology at Manipal Hospital in ...

Former Sri Lanka spin bowler Sachithra Senanayake was on Wednesday arrested for match-fixing by Sri Lanka police under a law aiming to stamp out rampant corruption in cricket. The 38-year-old was taken into custody by a police unit investigating sports-related crimes, a police spokesman told AFP. Formal charges were yet to be filed, but the spokesman said the arrest was ...

The number of people under 50 diagnosed with cancer has surged worldwide in the last three decades but it is not fully clear why, a study said on Wednesday. Cases of cancer among people aged 14 to 49 rose by nearly 80 percent, from 1.82 million to 3.26 million, between 1990 to 2019, according to the study published in the ...

Car giant Toyota on Wednesday blamed a shutdown of all its factories in Japan last month on a system malfunction caused by “insufficient disk space”. The world’s top-selling automaker said the one-day stoppage on August 29 at all 14 of its domestic plants happened after servers that process parts orders broke down following a maintenance procedure. During this operation “data ...

The Bangladesh Railway is going to start trial run of a special train on Mawa-Bhanga section crossing through the Padma Bridge on Thursday morning. The train will start its journey from Kamalapur Railway Station at 8:45am and will reach Bhanga at 11.54am, senior information officer of the Railways Ministry Siraj ud Doula Khan told BSS. Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan, ...