BSS: Textiles and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi Bir Protik today stressed the need for strengthening tobacco control law aiming to protect public health. "The priority of public health is above everything else. A stronger tobacco control law is a must to reduce the death ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: Eleven pilot whales were saved on Saturday after they became stranded near the shore on Sri Lanka's west coast in the early hours, wildlife officials said.A navy team aided the rescue effort alongside local fishermen who raised the alarm when they spotted the pod after ...বিস্তারিত
Reuters: Sharing drinks, watching missile parades and dining with senior army commanders, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's daughter was centre stage with her father and mother at major military events this week. Her presence has added to speculation that she could be in li ...বিস্তারিত
DOT Desk: India has announced its first significant discovery of reserves of lithium in its Jammu region, a rare mineral crucial for manufacturing electric vehicles, reports BBC.The government said on Thursday that 5.9 million tonnes of the mineral had been discovered in Jam ...বিস্তারিত
Reuters: A US F-22 fighter jet yesterday shot down an unidentified object flying high over Alaska, US officials said, less than a week after the military brought down a Chinese balloon that had flown across the United States. A Sidewinder missile downed the latest craft, wh ...বিস্তারিত
UNB: The Election Commission will purchase paper from the state-owned Karnaphuli Paper Mills (KPM) ahead of the upcoming national parliamentary election. AKM Anisuzzaman, managing director of KPM, said EC collected paper from the mill for use as ballot paper in the national ...বিস্তারিত
UNB: A joint rescue team from Bangladesh has hit the ground running as part of the rescue effort in Turkey following Monday's earthquake, one of the deadliest tremors witnessed anywhere in the world over decades. The Bangladesh team already rescued a 17-year-old girl alive ...বিস্তারিত
AFP: Pope Francis on Saturday will meet victims of South Sudan's civil war, a day after delivering an impassioned appeal for the country's leaders to recommit to peace for the sake of their long-suffering people. Francis is making the first papal visit to South Sudan since ...বিস্তারিত
Xinhua: The number of flu patients across Japan in the week ended Sunday has reached warning levels in the country for the first time in three years, the health ministry said. According to data released by the National Institute of Infectious Diseases on Friday, during the ...বিস্তারিত
UNB: Police in a drive arrested four members of a "theft racket" and recovered a coal testing machine (bomb calorimeter) worth Tk 47 lakh, which was stolen from Bagerhat's Rampal Power Plant. The arrests were made on Thursday night, said Mohammad Shamsuddin, officer-in-charg ...বিস্তারিত
