With some 400 million people around the world infected with hepatitis B or C, mostly without being aware, the United Nations top health agency encourages countries to boost testing and access to services and medicines for people in need to…
Year: 2016
Climate victims – every second, disaster displaces one person
Climate change and related extreme weather events have devastated the lives and livelihoods of tens of millions of most vulnerable people worldwide– by far exceeding the total of all the unfortunate and unjustifiable victims of all terrorist attacks combined. However,…
No medals for sanitation at Rio Olympics
The biggest frustration at the Olympic Games, to be inaugurated in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro on August 5, is the failure to meet environmental sanitation targets and promises in the city’s beaches, rivers, lakes and lagoons.The opportunity…
Mahasweta Devi dies in Kolkata at 90
Renowned Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi died in a Kolkata nursing home on Thursday, leaving behind a formidable literary legacy that focused on the lives of marginalised communities. The 90-year-old died of cardiac arrest due to multiple-organ failure. She…
Second France church attack suspect named
French prosecutors have identified the second man involved in the killing of a priest in a Normandy church on Tuesday as 19-year-old Abdel Malik Petitjean. Like the other attacker, Adel Kermiche, he was known to the security services.
Lloyds cuts further 3,000 jobs, doubles branch closure plan
Lloyds has accelerated its job-cutting scheme, axing a further 3,000 roles, even as it reported a 101 per cent increase in pre-tax profits. It has also doubled its planned branch closures, with 200 more set to vanish from High Streets…
Tubelight Salman Khan
Culture Desk No one from Bollywood can even think of calling Sallu Bhai a tubelight, regardless of the situation. Turns out he will be called a tubelight in front of large audiences! And that will only be possible when he…
Armeen Musa sings for a Kolkata film
Entertainment Desk Thanks to Bangladeshi actress, Jaya Ahsan, the audience are looking forward to a Bangla film in Kolkata, named Eagoler Chokh. Now, another Bangladeshi, Armeen Musa’s tie-up with the film, though her playback track, could generate more anticipation than…
Hepatitis B kills around 3,50,000 in SE Asia yearly
Hepatitis B kills around 3,50,000 people in the South-East Asian region every year, which is more than the annual death of AIDS and malaria combined, according to an expert of the World Health Organisation (WHO). “Approximately 100 million (10 crore)…
Netflix to give ‘Gilmore Girls’ Thanksgiving release
Netflix said on Wednesday its keenly-awaited four-part “Gilmore Girls” revival, “A Day in the Life,” will be available for streaming on Thanksgiving weekend. The announcement came as the world’s leading internet television network unveiled the timetable for its slate of…
US military bases at risk from sea level rise: study
US military bases along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico will be increasingly vulnerable to floods and power-packed storms as the planet warms, researchers said Wednesday. The report by the Union of Concerned Scientists spanned 18 military bases, and…
Tk 81.93cr budget announced for Kotalipara municipality
Gopalganj Correspondent Kotalipara Municipality announced a surplus budget over Taka 81.93 crore for 2016-2017 at municipality conference room yesterday. Mayor of Kotalipara Municipality HM Wahidul Islam announced the budget of Tk. 81,93,70,000 at a press conference here. In the budget…
Russia sees off first contestants on flight to Brazil
About 70 members of Russia’s Olympic team have left a Moscow airport for Brazil to take part in Rio 2016 while others stay at home, banned for doping.
NATO orders four additional battalions to Russian border
By Thomas Gaist The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is sending 4,000 additional troops to Eastern Europe in the name of reassuring Poland and the Baltic states, the alliance’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed on Monday. “We will agree to…
3 Comilla college girls, 31 Sylhet suspects held for militancy links
Dhaka – Police arrested three female students of Comilla Victoria Government College for their suspected link to militancy from a college dormitory at Dharmapur here early Thursday. In Sylhet 31 suspects, mostly Jamaat activists were held, UNB news agency reported.
Ten including 9 killed in Tuesday’s police operation sued
Dhaka – A case was filed accusing 10 people over the busting of Kalyanpur ‘militant’ hideout at Kalyanpur in the capital under the Anti-terrorism Act. The accused included the nine suspected militants who were killed in an operation by a…
Pro-BNP panel sweeps BAU Academic Council poll
Pro-BNP backed teachers association ‘Sonali Dal’ Panel swept the Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) academic council polls on Tuesday, bagging all of the nine posts while ruling party minded teachers association ‘Gonotantrik Shikkokh Forum’ failed to capture any of them.
Mobilisation of public opinion to protect rivers urged
Dhaka – Water experts and activists on Wednesday called for mobilising public opinion in favour of the protecting rivers which are basic to life and livelihood to 160 million people of Bangladesh. They made the call at an opinion exchange…
Autopsy report says militants were killed by bullets
All the nine suspected militants, who were killed during a police operation in the city’s Kalyanpur area early Tuesday, died from bullet injuries, said Dr Sohel Mahmud, an assistant professor at the Forensic Department of Dhaka Medical College (DMCH).
BNP briefs foreign diplomats about country’s situation
BNP on Wednesday briefed some foreign diplomats stationed in Dhaka about the country’s latest situation following the recent terror attacks and the High Court verdict convicting its senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman.
Hillary Clinton,a rising Star of Her Own Prime-Time Show
Donald J. Trump could not resist making a splashy appearance every night of his convention — emerging onstage as a fog-enshrouded silhouette one night, upstaging a political foe from the stands two nights later.
Jubayer missing for over 2 months: Family
Dhaka-Jubayer Hossain, one of the nine suspected militants killed in Kalyanpur operation here on Tuesday, had been missing along with two neighbouring youths for over two months, said his family.
7 militants identitied confirmed by police
The identities of seven militants among the nine suspected ones, who were killed in Tuesday’s overnight operation at Kalyanpur, were confirmed on Wednesday evening.
Nobody came to take the 9 dead bodes
Dhaka-No relative of the nine killed militants went to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) till last night to claim their bodies after completion of the postmortem examinations by forensic experts of the hospital at 2:00pm.
Government for river dredging, training: Anisul Islam
Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud today said the government has taken initiatives for river management system including capital dredging in the country’s big and important rivers.Replying to a starred question from treasury bench member Momtaz Begum in the Jatiya…
Bangladesh Biodiversity Bill, 2016 placed in JS
Environment and Forest Minister Anwar Hossain today placed the “Bangladesh Biodiversity Bill, 2016” aimed at strengthening the measures of biodiversity conservation in the country.He said the proposed bill would highlight biodiversity in the perspective of Bangladesh as the country is…
Michelle Obama: ‘When they go low, we go high’
Michelle Obama cast the presidential race as one between a positive role model for children — in Hillary Clinton — and a damaging one — in Donald Trump — in the marquee speech on the Democratic National Convention’s opening night.…
Court upheld verdict against OC Helal
Dhaka-The Fifth Additional District and Session Judge’s Court of Dhaka on Wednesday upheld a verdict of lower court that sentenced Helal Uddin, former Officer-in-Charge of Khilgaon Police Station to three years’ imprisonment for torturing a Dhaka University student in police…
Warrant against 59 BNP leaders
Dhaka-The Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka on Wednesday issued arrest warrant against 59 BNP leaders including Barkatullah Bulu, Sultan Salahuddin Tuku, Azizul Bari Helal, Meer Sharafat Ali Shafu, Maruf Khan Kamal Sohel and Habib un Nabi Khan Sohel in…
White humpback Migaloo spotted off Australia’s Byron Bay
A famous white humpback whale has been spotted on his annual migration to Australia’s north.Migaloo is known for his distinctive colouring and for many years was the only documented all-white humpback whale in the world.He has been sighted off the…