The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a libido-enhancing drug for women that has been dubbed “Female Viagra”. Flibanserin, a drug produced by Sprout Pharmaceuticals, recently passed an FDA advisory committee meeting. The pill is designed to assist…
By Islam Al Zaini The government of Bahrain has launched a crackdown on undocumented migrant workers, effectively giving them the option to correct their residency status. The initiative comes as the country reels under an economic crisis due to ballooning…
Six people, including two minor boys, received burn injuries in separate gas explosions in the city’s Pallabi and Demra areas on Monday. Four workers of a pharmaceutical company received burn injuries due to an explosion inside pharmaceutical factory in the…
Expressing concern over people’s security at home or outside, Jatiya Party (JP) chairman HM Ershad on Sunday said people are suffering from insecurity as child killing and torture on women is happening frequently. He said this at a view-exchange programme…
Punjab home minister Colonel (retd) Shuja Khanzada was killed in a suicide attack on his political office in Shadi Khan village. His death was confirmed by Dr Syed Elahi, adviser to the chief minister of Punjab. Several others died in…
BNP chairperson and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia turns ’70’ on Saturday. Unlike previous years, Party sources hinted, Khaleda may not cut cake at the wee hours on Saturday celebrating her birthday at her Gulshan office. A BNP leader close…
A Dhaka court on Thursday fixed November 12 for submission of the further investigation report for the last time in the Mazoor murder case. Judge SM Saiful Islam of Dhaka’s First Additional District and Sessions Judge’s Court set the new…
US Ambassador in Dhaka Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat on Wednesday said the US will restore Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) for Bangladesh if it fully implements specific measures listed in the GSP Action Plan for it. She made the remark…
A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) President Rajib Ahsan on 16 days’ remand in eight cases filed against him with Paltan Police Station of the capital. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Masud Sheikh passed the orders…
As indicated earlier in January this year’s review, Bangladesh has been excluded in the renewal of Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). On June 29, 2015, President Barack Obama signed into law a bill (H.R. 1295), that reauthorises the GSP through…
Danielle Nierenberg International Youth Day takes place on Wednesday, August 12th to celebrate youth and their ability to help create a better world. The theme of this year’s event is youth civic engagement to encourage young women and men to…
A Dhaka court yesterday set August 27 as the next date for recording the depositions in the Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases. Dhaka’s third Special Judge Abu Ahmed Jamader of passed the order after a defendant’s…
A Dhaka Court yesterday (Sunday) allowed police to go for forensic test of slain blogger Niladri Chattaerjee Niloy. Earlier, the police sought permission to the court to send the evidence of Niladri Chatterjee Niloy to the Forensic Department of Dhaka…
The Ganojagaran Manch on Saturday issued an ultimatum of seven days, for the arrest of the killers of blogger Niloy Chatterjee. The Manch which has been demanding capital punishment for all war criminals since February 5, 2013 also threatened to…
A man was killed and at least 19 others went missing as a bus plunged into a pond at Shologhar on Dhaka-Maowa Highway in Sreenagar upazila on Friday noon. The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.
From New York Office The ruling party of Bangladesh Awami League Activists in United States of America from Bangladesh, are getting asylum by using opposition party documents. They are using fake identities as members of Banglades’s main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist…
World Cup hero Mahmudullah Riyadh, who hit back-to-back centuries for Bangladesh in the last world cricket extravaganza, is disappointed over the loss of play due to rain in the two Test series against South Africa. “Playing against the number one…
US Congresswoman Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D, HI-02), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, has introduced a bipartisan resolution calling on Bangladesh government to increase human rights protections, strengthen democratic institutions, and prevent the…
John Nuttall and Amanda Korody haven’t turned out to be exactly helpful poster children for the “be afraid, be very afraid” school of thought in the interminable arguments Canadians like to have with one another about terrorism. The ongoing trials…
The newborn, who was shot inside the womb of its mother allegedly by Jubo League men in Magura, was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Thursday. The baby boy was taken to…
BNP has expressed its frustration, surprise and shock as the Appellate Division upheld the death sentence o party leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury on charges of crimes against humanity. “Our party considers like his lawyers that he did not get justice.…
Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) authorities have formed an eight-member medical team for the proper treatment of the newborn who was shot inside the womb of its mother allegedly by Jubo League men in Magura. Dr Ashraful Haque Kajal, head…
angladesh Cricket Board (BCB) selectors have reposed their faith in the team that played South Africa in the first Test at Chittagong. There are no changes in the squad that takes on the Proteas in the second Test at Mirpur.…
Three people, including a woman and her daughter, died and another person went missing as a boat sank in Bheramohona Chatra haor -typically large waterbody – in Shella upazila on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Roshna Akhter, 30, wife…
The High Court will hear Disaster Management minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya’s appeal against his sentencing for corruption on Monday. The Awami League MP had been slapped a 13-year prison term and fined Tk 50 million during the emergency rule…
The first Test between Bangladesh and South Africa at Chittagong ended in a draw after days four and five were washed out by rain. Bangladesh had lost the previous eight encounters against the world number one side, but were faring…
South Africa made 248 in the first innings, bowled out Bangladesh for 326 and reached 61-0 in their second knock Chittagong: Rain washed out the fourth day’s play in the first Test between Bangladesh and South Africa on Friday. Match…
Bangladesh took a first innings lead of 78 runs before they were all out for 326 runs during the extended second session of the third day’s play in Chittagong. South Africa, who made 248 in the first innings, were 61-0…
Mahmudullah Riyad and Tamim Iqbal hit half-centuries to guide Bangladesh to 179-4 before rain stopped play on the second day of the first Test against South Africa in Chittagong on Wednesday. Mahmudullah made 67 while Tamim added a patient 57…
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 (ICT-2) on Wednesday deferred for two weeks (to August 5) the hearing on the charges of contempt of court against Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury. Advocate Abdul Baset Mazumder, lawyer of Zafrullah Chowdhury, during today’s…