Belarus yesterday expressed its keen interest to constitute a joint commission on trade and economy to further boost the economic relations with Bangladesh, reports UNB. Visiting Belarusian Minister of Industry Vitaly Vovk expressed the interest when he paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh…

The government will provide food assistance to fishermen alongside the farmers of flood-hit haor region under the vulnerable group feeding (VGF) programme as they have become jobless, reports UNB. Besides, the government has released Tk 10-15 crore for each of the flood-hit haor districts to create…

Of the 460,000 inbound patients to Indian hospitals, more than 165,000 were from Bangladesh in 2015-16 making Bangladesh the largest foreign user of India's health services, reports UNB. Over 58,000 medical visas were issued to Bangladeshi nationals in 2015-16. They bought $0.34 billion worth of…

Another worker, who suffered burn injuries in a boiler explosion at a rice mill in Sadar upazila on April 19 last, died at Rangpur Medical College Hospital on Wednesday, raising the death toll from the incident to 14, reports UNB from Dinajpur. Majedul, 40, who was undergoing treatment at the Burn and…

The BNP has suggested that the government should take the issue of Teesta water sharing with India to the United Nations.  At the same time, the Khaleda Zia-led party clarified that it was not anti-India, but the interest of Bangladesh and its people always came first. “Should we be described…

Thai media came under fire yesterday for publishing images of a man killing his infant daughter in a Facebook Live video, a grim case that sparked outrage and raised fears of copycat killings, reports AFP from Bangkok. The video, filmed Monday on the southern resort island of Phuket, showed Wuttisan…

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday arrested the managing director of M/S Haji Islam Uddin Spinning Mills Limited from the capital in a graft case, reports UNB. ACC assistant director Md Ghulshan Anwar Pradan of its head office arrested Md Islam Uddin from the city's Segunbagicha area,…