A Pennsylvania man faces federal criminal charges after he checked in a suitcase with an explosive device hidden in the lining on a flight to Florida, authorities said Wednesday.Marc Muffley, 40, is charged with possessing an explosive in an airport an…
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today rejected review petitions of the two death-row convicts in Rajshahi University Professor S Taher Ahmed murder case.A bench of eight justices, led by Chief justice Hasan Foez Siddique, passed the order, …
Physicians in Khulna district have halted services at all government and private hospitals, except for emergency care, protesting the attack on a fellow doctor. The work abstention, on its second day today, has been causing immense suffering to the pat…
COVID-19’s origins remain hazy. Three years after the start of the pandemic, it’s still unclear whether the coronavirus that causes the disease leaked from a lab or spread to humans from an animal.This much is known: When it comes to COVID-19 misinform…
A 25-year-old woman, who was admitted to Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital with symptoms of Nipah virus infection, died on Wednesday, 20 days after her father-in-law had died of the same virus.The deceased was identified as Farida Begum, wife of Ab…
A sexagenarian woman was charred to death when a fire broke out at her house at Amuchia in Boalkhali of Chattogram district early Thursday.The deceased was identified as Protibha Mohajon, wife of Swapan Mohajon of the area.Saidur Rahman, officer-in-cha…
A man and his son were killed in a collision between a microbus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Sylhet’s Zakiganj upazila Thursday morning.Several others were also injured in the accident that occurred on Sylhet-Zakiganj road at Parchak Botratol Bazar o…
The British navy seized anti-tank missiles and fins for ballistic missile assemblies during a raid on a small boat heading from Iran likely to Yemen, authorities said Thursday, the latest such seizure in the Gulf of Oman.The seizure by the Royal Navy c…
Former Miss Universe and Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen says she suffered a heart attack.Sen, in her latest Instagram post today, said she suffered a heart attack a few days ago, reports NDTV.”Keep your heart happy and courageous, and it’ll stand by yo…
Cuts in food rations received by around one million Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar will increase their risk of malnutrition and have a serious impact on their health, said international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Bo…
The strike enforced by physicians in Khulna protesting the attack on one of their fellows allegedly by a cop and others continued for the second consecutive day on Thursday.It caused immense suffering to hospitalised patients and others who sought medi…
One hundred students from Dhaka and Sylhet have completed the English Access Microscholarship Program, administered by the Global Educators Initiative for Sustainable Transformation (GEIST) International Foundation.The students strengthened their Engli…
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