The High Court (HC) yesterday directed the government to ensure emergency medical services to road accident victims at all public and private hospitals of the country. It also ordered the health secretary to issue a gazette notification containing the guidelines for ensuring emergency medical services…

NASA is poised to launch a $1.5 billion spacecraft on a brutally hot journey toward the Sun, offering scientists the closest-ever view of our strange…

Eight civilians, including women and children, were killed in northern Afghanistan yesterday when a roadside bomb apparently targeting security forces ripped through the vehicle in which they were travelling, reports AFP from Mazar-I-Sharif quoting officials. Another six people were wounded in the early…

Two buses' competition to get more passengers on board has resulted in the fatal accident that caused the tragic end of two young lives on Airport Road on July 29, reports UNB. In a confessional statement before a court in connection with the deaths of two college students, Masum Billa, driver of…

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali begins his four-day visit to Myanmar today to discuss progress on Rohingya repatriation with Myanmar leadership, reports UNB. Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque and members of joint working group will accompany Minister Ali during the visit which Dhaka sees as crucial…

The United Nations said yesterday it still had not been granted independent access to the epicentre of Myanmar's Rohingya crisis two months after inking a deal with the government to carry out work there, reports AFP from Yangon. UN refugee and development agencies signed an agreement with Myanmar…