UNB At least 25 students of a private medical college were injured in a road crash on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Mainamati cantonment area on Saturday night. After the accident, the students were rescued and then were admitted to different hospitals. Highway police seized the vehicles.
Science Alert: The name “kissing bug” doesn’t quite communicate the danger of the infection that insects with that moniker can spread. These bloodsucking bugs, called triatomine bugs, spread a parasitic illness called Chagas disease.Left untreated, Chagas causes serious cardiac or intestinal complications in about 30 percent of patients, according to the CDC. These complications can…
The Guardian, UK: The Specials singer Neville Staple has spoken of the “heartbreaking loss” of his grandson, who has been stabbed to death aged 21. Fidel, son of Staple’s daughter Melanie, was rushed to hospital in a life-threatening condition after being stabbed in Coventry in the early hours of Saturday. He was found at the…
BSS A youth was killed and three others were injured in a road mishap at Vatipara on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Sadar upazila on Wednesday morning. The deceased was Ratan Gyine, 20, of Zoaria village under Tungipara upazila of the district. Officer-in-charge of Sadar Thana Selim Reja said the accident occurred when a bus hit…
Marilyn Thipthorpe There seems to be no exact science behind why we like or dislike someone, some says its something about their face, some about their behavior and yet some about their personalities. This has been debunked, there actually are certain instinctive points people follow when they are attracted to someone else. * If you…
BBC: China’s ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing has suspended its carpool service after police said a driver raped and killed a female passenger. A company statement said the incident showed there were deficiencies in its processes, and so it would suspend its Hitch system for re-evaluation. Authorities said the 20-year-old woman hailed the ride on Friday…
UNB, Dhaka Acting secretary at the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Begum Shamsun Nahar on Sunday said the Malaysian government has not yet officially informed the Bangladeshi government about its suspension order on recruiting foreign workers, including Bangladesh. While speaking to reporters at the ministry, Shamsun Nahar also said Malaysia even did not…
UNB: Members of Wild-Team, a wildlife conservation organization, arranged a knowledge sharing programme with the middle school students of American International School of Dhaka. They also shared the organization information and activities with the students in the school gymnasium as a part of a fair of non-government organizations. of Bangladesh from different areas, said a…
Nilofar Ahmed, Scholar of the Quran/Dawn News THE Council of Islamic Ideology has finally realised that the matter of three-in-one divorce is a matter worth examining. The act of pronouncing all three talaqs, or words of divorce, by the husband in one breath — and its destructive and tragic outcome — is due to the…
Abrar Hussain: At least nine people have been killed in separate road accidents in Gaibandha and Netrokona districts yesterday. Five people, including four of a family, died in a head-on collision between a bus and tractor in Gaibandha, reports UNB. Meanwhile, four passengers were killed in a collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto…