Turkish authorities are targeting contractors allegedly linked with buildings that collapsed in the powerful Feb. 6 earthquakes as rescuers found more survivors in the rubble Sunday, including a pregnant woman and two children, in the disaster that kil…
Rihanna was pregnant with her second child as she performed her Super Bowl halftime show Sunday.The singer’s representative confirmed the pregnancy shortly after she ended her 13-minute set at Super Bowl 57. She hovered high at times as she performed a…
Dhaka ranked as the 18th most polluted city in the world this morning (February 13, 2023) as per Air Quality Index (AQI).The air in Dhaka was categorized as ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’ this morning and the megacity had an AQI score of 123 at 9:33 …
Rescue crews on Monday pulled a 40-year-old woman from the wreckage of a building a week after two powerful earthquakes struck, but reports of rescues are coming less often as the time since the quake reaches the limits of the human body’s ability to s…
Thousands of people are being deprived of adequate health facilities as the lone X-ray machine at 50-bed Shalla upazila health complex has been lying unused for 18 years at its corridor, thanks to the negligence of the authorities concerned.The X-ray m…
Thousands who survived the earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria a week ago are pondering what comes next. While many have been evacuated from the devastated region, others are staying by wrecked homes and as the search for missing loved ones contin…
A young man was beaten to death in a lynch-mob attack on suspicion of being a thief at Khaminarbad union of Bhanga Upazila in Faridpur district early Monday.The deceased was identified as Samad Sardar, 40, son of late Natu Sardar, a resident of Dangarp…
Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Monday said the government will provide free health care services worth Tk 50,000 to some 15 lakh poor families in six districts.“We have expanded the ‘health security programme’ to six districts instead of one district…
Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards flooded the streets of Madrid on Sunday for the largest protest yet against the regional government’s management of the capital city’s health care services.Over 250,000 people rallied in the city center, according to …
Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) on Monday signed an agreement with the Islami Bank Foundation (IBF) to establish a hospital cum nursing institute in the unused land and buildings of Northern Area Reduction of Poverty Initiative (NA…
Bangladesh reported one more Covid-linked death and 9 cases in the 24 hours till Monday morning.With the new numbers, the country’s total fatalities rose to 29,445 and caseload to 2,037,688, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS…
A Bogura court on Monday sentenced two people to death and another one to life imprisonment for killing a five-year-old boy in 2011.The condemned convicts are identified as Abdul Khalek and Abdul Majed of Shahjahanpur upazila. They were tried in absent…
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