More than a thousand patients with advanced breast cancer are being denied a drug that can keep them alive for longer. It is already available in 19 countries in Europe – including in Scotland – but not in the rest of the UK. Jeannie Ambrose is warm and funny. But beneath the surface, she is raging. She was diagnosed with ...

A court in Dhaka has placed former Gulshan Police Station’s officer-in-charge (OC) Md Rafiqul Islam on a four-day remand for questioning in a case filed over obstructing duties and attempting to kill BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia keeping sand-laden truck in front of her Gulshan residence in 2013. Investigation officer of the case pleaded to the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court ...

Publisher and acting editor of Amar Desh newspaper Mahmudur Rahman has said that the daily will come back in circulation by December this year. Addressing a press conference at the National Press Club on Friday, he said the newspaper is facing financial problems. For the time being, it will be published in another printing press. Mahmudur Rahman said, “I will ...

Estonia has expressed keen interest in collaborating with Bangladesh in the ICT sector, particularly in e-governance and cyber security, reports BSS. It was revealed when newly-appointed non-resident Ambassador of Estonia to Bangladesh Marje Luup paid a maiden courtesy call on Foreign Affairs Adviser Md. Touhid Hossain at the foreign ministry in Dhaka on Thursday, said a press release on Friday. ...

Speakers at a function here have urged the businessmen not to raise the prices of all essentials without logical reasons. Due to natural disasters like floods, there has been a slight increase in the prices of some essential commodities. However, prices have increased abnormally recently, which has caused discomfort to consumers, they said, BSS reports. There is no alternative to ...

Kusal Mendis hit an unbeaten 68 to help clinch Sri Lanka’s first T20 international series win over the West Indies with a thumping nine-wicket victory in the third and final game on Thursday. Sri Lanka chased down their 163-run target with 12 balls to spare as a sell-out home crowd in Dambulla erupted. “Happy to get the team over the ...

Shwadhin Bangla Betar Kendra-famed legendary singer, composer, and music director Shujeyo Shyam passed away last night at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in the capital, at the age of 78. The eminent artist breathed his last around 2:50 am, his daughter Rupa Manjuri Shyam confirmed to the media. His body has been taken to Dhakeshwari temple in the capital ...

The government has appointed Islamic law expert and Hadith scholar Mufti Muhammad Abdul Malek as khatib of the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque. The approval of his appointment came from the government high level Thursday, said a press release of the Ministry of Religious Affairs issued Friday. Mufti Abdul Malek is a renowned Islamic scholar with advanced degrees in Islamic Studies, ...

Law Adviser Asif Nazrul has said the next national election could be arranged by the next year – 2025 – after completing the pre-election preparations including formation of a new Election Commission through a search committee. “I think realistically, holdind the election can be possible by the next year. There are many factors. This is a preliminary assumption to me,” ...

In a day marked by the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, displacement and more air strikes, exhausted Gazans said they just wanted to end more than a year of conflict that has brought untold suffering. As news of Sinwar’s death spread on cell phones, the first images of his corpse buried in rubble with a gaping hole in his ...