Health authorities have marked 32 districts in Bangladesh as being at risk of the Nipah virus infection and directed physicians to take adequate precautionary measures while attending to patients with fevers, a primary symptom of the illness, in hospitals.The Dhaka North City Corporation's COVID-dedicated hospital in Mohakhali has also been
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585 killed in road crashes in 1st month of 2023
Road crashes claimed 585 lives across the country in January, said a report of Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity. Forty-six people killed in 44 railway accidents while 11 killed and one was injured in 13 waterway accidents, it said.The report was published on Saturday after analysing accident reports published in the
AL had to use state machinery to defeat Hero Alam: Fakhrul
Nirob Murder Case: 5 juveniles confess in Khulna court
Five arrested juveniles confessed their involvement in seven-grade student Nirob murder case in Dumuria upazila of the district. They confessed to the court on Friday afternoon under section 164 CrPc, court sources said. The five juveniles confessed that they killed Nirob Mondal, a seven-grade student of Gutudia ACGB Secondary School
HRW for probe into enforced disappearances, torture in Bangladesh
Human Rights Watch has said Bangladesh authorities should investigate recent allegations of enforced disappearances and torture including by police members of the Detective Branch (DB) of police. "Bangladesh's Detective Branch has previously been implicated in allegations of grave human rights abuses by local human rights groups, including enforced disappearances and torture,
Main Coolant Pipeline at Unit 2 in Rooppur NPP completed
Welding of the main coolant pipeline (MCP) has been successfully completed in the reactor building of Unit 2 at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). According to Rosatom, the Russian Contractor of the Rooppur NPP, the entire process of joining, welding, and heat treatment of 28 weld joints took 60 days. Another 6
Prime Bank signs deal with BB
Prime Bank has signed an agreement with Bangladesh Bank (BB) recently to disburse loans among exporters from a newly formed Tk 10,000 crore export facilitation pre-finance fund of the central bank, a press release said Saturday. Hassan O. Rashid, MD and CEO of Prime Bank, and Abdur Rouf Talukder, Governor
FSIBL holds business dev conference
First Security Islami Bank Ltd (FSIBL) held its Annual Business Development Conference-2023 on Saturday at the Radisson Blu Dhaka Water Garden, a press release said. Syed Waseque Md. Ali, MD of the bank, presided over the conference. Abdul Aziz and Muhammad Mustafa Khair, AMDs, Md. Zahurul Haque and Md. Masudur
BRAC Bank opens 1000th agent banking outlet
BRAC Bank has achieved the 1,000 agent banking outlet milestone following rapid network expansion drive across Bangladesh, a press release said Saturday. Launching of Shah Ali agent banking outlet in Mirpur 1, Dhaka marked 1,000th milestone for BRAC Bank. Nazmur Rahim, head of alternate banking channels, BRAC Bank, inaugurated the
Bangladesh ranks 73rd on Democracy Index
Bangladesh has moved two places up to rank 73rd in the latest edition of the Democracy Index.The South Asian nation posted a score of 5.99 out of 10 in 2022, unchanged from the previous year, according to the report published by the UK-based Economist Intelligence Unit on Thursday.The Democracy Index