Directed authorities to reduce medicine, stent prices: minister

Authorities concerned have directed to reduce the prices of medicines and stents, Health Minister Samanta Lal said on Tuesday (27 February). "Drug prices have hiked suddenly. Officials of the Directorate General of Drug Administration have sat for a meeting to fix the prices," he told reporters at the ministry. Speaking about the

Fentanyl use spreads deeper into Mexico, worrying authorities

 The teenager who arrived at Jose de Jesus Lopez's drug rehab clinic in the industrial Mexican city of Monterrey in December had unusual symptoms. The 17-year-old's family had taken the boy to hospital a few days earlier when he'd had trouble breathing and then passed out after supposedly consuming cocaine, the

Russian authorities advise civilians to leave Ukraine

Russian-installed authorities in Ukraine told all residents of the city of Kherson to leave "immediately" Saturday ahead of an expected advance by Ukrainian troops waging a counteroffensive to recapture one of the first urban areas Russia took after invading the country. In a post on the Telegram messaging service, the pro-Kremlin

TIB for logical wage hike of tea workers

 Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has urged the authorities concerned to raise the wage of the tea workers logically through discussion instead of threating them to stop the ongoing peaceful movement across the country.  Tea workers' daily wage of only Tk 120 after working for eight hours and sometimes even more, with