In WHO overhaul push, EU urges changes to handling of pandemics
Reuters, Brussels :The European Union wants the World Health Organization to become more transparent about how states report emerging health crises, a draft proposal on...
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HC seeks report over death of 3 boys
Staff Reporter :The High Court on Wednesday ordered the authorities of the Jashore Juvenile Correction Centre to submit a report in the High Court within...
SC upholds bail for Nixon Chowdhury in EC’s case
Staff Reporter :The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a High Court order that granted anticipatory bail for eight weeks to independent lawmaker from Faridpur-4 constituency...
After Covid-19, no internet means no school for BD’s rural children
Deutsche Welle :Nine-year-old Subarna Akhter Sathi spends most of her days with friends at a local playground in Brahmanbaria, an eastern district of Bangladesh. On...
Bring drivers under dope test: PM
UNB, Dhaka :Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked the authorities concerned to bring drivers under a dope testing system to know whether they use...
HC directs to include privately owned ponds in metropolitan and municipal areas as natural reservoirs
Staff Reporter :The High Court directed the government to include the ponds those are recorded as privately owned in City Corporation, divisional city, district town...
Charge framed against DIG (Prisons) Rashid in graft case
Court Correspondent :A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Prisons Bazlur Rashid in a case, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC)...
Bangladeshi packaged food exports face setback due to trans fat
Reza Mahmud :Bangladesh will face hardship on exporting its packaged food items if failed to comply World Health Organisation’s guidelines on keeping Trans Fat to...
Fire at city’s Chandni Chowk Market, Apex Tyre factory
Staff Reporter :Fire broke out at the Chandni Chowk Market near Nilkhet and at the Apex Tyre factory of Apex Polymer Group in the city’s...
RAB nabs 11 brokers for luring Nitor patients to private hospitals
Staff reporter :Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) picked up 11 brokers for allegedly taking patients of the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitations (NITOR) to...
Countrywide cargo vessel strike rolls into second day
Staff Reporter :The water transport workers have continued their indefinite countrywide strike for the second consecutive day on Wednesday to press home their 11-point demand.The...