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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exposed critical cracks in health sector investments in Asia and the Pacific, with the sector’s foreign direct investments (FDI) dropping by 45 percent from 2019 to 2020 and continuing to decline to 34 percent in the first three quarters of 2022.Recently relea...
National,Back Page
Citizens aged above 60 will get the fourth dose of Covid-19 vaccine, Health Minister ZahidMaleque has said. Talking to reporters on Monday, he said the decision got approval from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. “Aged persons can take the 4th dose during the ongoing seven-day campaign f...
Low turnout in contrast to much hyped pledges of pulling unprecedented turnout and a grisly spate of infighting, caused from internal feud among rally goers triggered a fresh spell of criticisms on part of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) cantering the rally ended in Rajshahi on Saturday. &n...
National
Barrister Shah Ali, a former special assistant of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has raised the question of not extraditing war criminal Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin to Bangladesh on the ground death penalty. The question was raised following the UK’s position on the 'IS bride' Shamima Be...
National,Front Page
Bangladesh on Thursday, in a significant public health move, made nutrition-rich fortified rice commercially available to reduce micronutrient deficiencies and improve nutrition outcomes among the population.Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder in a formal event while declaring fortified rice as a ...
Bangladesh’s key opposition leader Dr Kamal Hossain and his daughter's defence in cases of substantial tax evasion has suffered a blow after fresh revelation of much undisclosed incomes from foreign sources for legal services rendered in Bangladesh.A publicly available international arbitr...
Gene therapy has been applied in Bangladesh for the first time to treat the chronic neurological disease Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). The National Institute of Neurosciences & Hospital (NINS) has applied the therapy to a child to treat this congenital disease. This gene therapy, cura...
Amid protests from the country’s recruiting agencies, a new visa service centre, ‘Tashira’ owned by two Saudi Arabian nationals is trying to get accreditation from the Royal Saudi Arabian Embassy in Dhaka to serve as a migrant visa processing centre bypassing already-approved &lsqu...
Rejecting the decision of the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Dhaka to allow a third agency, Shapla Center, to receive passports and stamp visas, the Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA) on Saturday announced non-submission of passports to the embassy for clearance.In an emer...
Newly-appointed inspector general of police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun was adorned with the IGP Rank Badge on Wednesday.Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan and senior secretary of the Public Security Division under the Home Ministry Md Akhtar Hossain decorated the Rank Badge to the new IGP in pres...
Women Journalists Network Bangladesh (WJNB) in partnership with the High Commission of Canada in Bangladesh organised a day long workshop to sensitize journalists about digital safety and digital hygiene at the National Press Club on Tuesday.After the workshop a certificate giving ceremony was held ...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested five suspected militants including three youths, who reportedly left home to join militancy, from the capital's Jatrabari and Keraniganj. The arrestees were identified as militant group member Shah Md Habibullah, 32, Neyamat Ullah, 43, from Cumilla and ...
City
Chief of Air Staff of Bangladesh Air Force Air Chief Marshal Shaikh Abdul Hannan left Dhaka for Saudi Arabia on Sunday.He left the country for an official visit along with his spouse and three entourage on an invitation of Commander of Royal Saudi Air Force Lieutenant General Turki Bin Bandar Bin Ab...
Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League filed a case against 175 people over Friday’s clash with Bangladesh Student Rights Council members at a rally held to mark the third death anniversary of Abrar Fahad, who was brutally killed in BUET three years ago.&n...
Railway Police have arrested five people in connection with the gang rape of teenage girl in train at Kamalapur station.The girl was gang-raped in the Turag community train standing at Kamalapur railway station in the capital. The incident happened on Friday night. The arrested was identified as Sum...
A total of 155 university teachers and other professionals have protested BNP’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi’s “wholesale assertion without any substance” against noted human rights activist Sultana Kamal and prominent historian Muntassir Mamoo...
A gang oh human traffickers embezzled Tk 3 crore through human trafficking from different victims across the country.According to the sources in the elite Rapid Action Battalion(RAB),the syndicate has extorted around Tk 3 crore from innocent and unemployed youths by falsely luring them with high-pay...
Former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Bangladesh Prof Mizanur Rahman has protested BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi's comments against veteran human rights activist Sultana Kamal.“What he said about Sultana Kamal is indecent. It shows his bad taste. You have to do polit...
The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has arrested seven students in connection with alleged involvement in militancy from different parts of the country, said a message from the Rab headquarters on Thursday.The message from Rab media wing said that four of the arrestees went missing from their homes in ...
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