Medical &Health

The busy streets of Khulna city wore a deserted look on Wednesday, with vanishingly few residents seen out in public at the onset of a fresh seven-day lockdown, with stricter enforcement expected of rules that are already stricter in response to the Se...

The pomp and colour associated with Pahela Baishakh was absent as people celebrated the event virtually for the second consecutive year amid restrictions imposed to contain the transmission of coronavirus.The first day of Bangla calendar also saw the c...

Police have arrested three persons, including a mother-daughter duo, for allegedly plotting a gang rape at Madhukhali Upazila of Faridpur.The arrestees are Rozina, her mother Parul Aktar and one Zakirul Haque.On Tuesday night, the victim’s father filed...

Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations Ambassador Rabab Fatima has said the lack of infrastructure, especially in the areas of ICT, health, and education is acutely felt during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic."Therefore, it should b...

The government has signed deals with the World Bank and Asian Development Bank to get Covid-19 vaccine shots quickly, Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora, additional director general of Health Services division, said.The World Bank has agreed to provide $500 mil...

Professor Shamsuzzaman Khan, legendary folklorist and Chairman of Bangla Academy, passed away at a city hospital Wednesday after losing his battle with Covid-19.The 80-year-old was on life support after being tested Covid-19 positive and was undergoing...

More than 137 million people have been found infected with Covid-19 globally with 2.95 million fatalities on Wednesday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University (JHU).The total case count reached 137,442,147 while the death toll from the...

Bangladesh reported 96 deaths during a 24-hour period until Wednesday morning, shattering all of its previous single-day death counts.The latest fatalities pushed up the local tally to 9,987 since the first death was reported on March 18 last year, a h...