The World Health Organisation announced yesterday that cured and processed meats like bacon, sausage, hot dogs and ham cause cancer, adding the foods to a top-tier list of carcinogenic substances that includes alcohol, cigarettes, asbestos, and arsenic, reports AFP. Sausages, ham and other processed…

The cabinet yesterday approved a proposal of the youth ministry to appoint 30,000 more unemployed youths in 20 upazilas of 20 districts of the country under the National Service Programme (NSP) to generate employment for jobless youths. The approval was given at a cabinet meeting held at the secretariat…

Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad has said that bloodshed will occur in every family if local government elections are held under the party banner. The…

A Saudi prince and four others were detained on Monday in Lebanon in the largest drug bust in the history of the Beirut airport, a security source said, reports AFP from Beirut. Saudi prince Abdel Mohsen Bin Walid Bin Abdulaziz and four others were detained by airport security while allegedly “attempting…

A listed criminal was killed allegedly in a gunfight with police at Uttar Daulatdia  village in Goalondo upzila of the district on Sunday night. One police constable was also injured in the firefight, said police sources. The duty officer of Goalanda Police Station said yesterday that the deceased,…