The Bangladesh Railway (BR) is facing an acute shortage of manpower, which has been almost halved in the last three-and-a-half decades, sources in BR…

Three more dengue patients died in Dhaka, Khulna and Mymensingh yesterday. Meanwhile, hospitals across the country admitted a large number of dengue patients…

A High Court (HC) bench yesterday ordered the authorities concerned to spray insecticide more intensively across the country to control Aedes mosquitoes…

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor, Atiqul Islam, has said that blocking of entry of a mobile court's team to Health and Family Welfare Minister, Zahid Maleque’s house was not a happy development. The team was conducting a drive against mosquitoes on Tuesday. The mayor said he was unable…

Myanmar's navy will join maritime drills with the US in Southeast Asia next week, a spokesman said yesterday, in a rare show of military cooperation despite Washington slapping sanctions on top army brass over the Rohingya crisis. The inclusion in the drills does not violate US travel bans against…