Day: July 24, 2022

Bangladesh recorded four more Covid-19-linked deaths with 430 new cases in 24 hours till Sunday morning.With the latest figures, the country's total fatalities reached 29,266 while the caseload to 2,001,775, according to the Directorate General of Heal...

A gunman opened fire on university campus in the Philippine capital region on Sunday, killing a former town mayor and two others in a brazen attack ahead of a graduation ceremony, police said.The suspect was armed with two pistols and was captured in a...

A significant proportion of the people, 70 percent, who have died of Covid were not vaccinated against the disease, according to Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Director General (DG) Dr Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam.Khurshid was addr...

Two more people died due to floods across the country in the 24 hours to Sunday morning.The number of reported fatalities, from May 17 to July 23, rose to 129, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).Of the deceased, 73 were from...

Two people were killed on the Dhaka-Tangail highway in Gazipur Sunday after police said a truck mowed them down with their motorcycle."It happened around 5pm near Kadda area under Konabari Police Station when the truck rammed into the motorcycle of Mas...

Some 5.5 percent of people in the country are carriers of Hepatitis B virus, while 0.6 percent carry Hepatitis C virus in their bodies. At least one crore people are currently affected by these two viruses, but what’s alarming is that nine out of 10 pa...