Hundreds demonstrated in Syria鈥檚 Sweida on Saturday, denouncing last month鈥檚 sectarian violence and calling for the right to self-determination for the Druze-majority province, an AFP correspondent reported...
The Border Guard Bangladesh on Wednesday destroyed drugs worth over Tk 1,321 crore seized in anti-narcotics operations conducted by the BGB battalions under the Cox鈥檚 Bazar region...
Satirical cartoon exhibition titled 鈥楤idrupe Bidroho鈥� marking the fall of the authoritarian Sheikh Hasina regime is under way at the La Galerie of Alliance Fran莽aise de Dhaka at Dhanmondi in the capital...
Bangladesh and Pakistan have expressed their commitment to work together to combat drugs and terrorism...
The joint forces have arrested three alleged drug traders and seized heroin, cash money and other belongings from their possessions at Adaghat village under Rampal in Bagerhat on Friday night...
Jatiya Mukti Council president Badruddin Umar on Friday said that after the victory of students-people uprising ousting the Awami League fascist government past year, the rightist and religion-based political forces grew in the country.
Armed tribes supported by Syria鈥檚 Islamist-led government clashed with Druze fighters in the community鈥檚 Sweida heartland on Friday, a day after the army withdrew under Israeli bombardment and diplomatic pressure.
The police arrested 25 individuals, including two women, on charges of selling and consuming different sorts of drugs in Sylhet on Saturday evening...
The Rapid Action Battalion on Tuesday night arrested three drug traffickers along with a firearm and ammunition in the capital...
A woman and her son and daughter were beaten to death in Cumilla鈥檚 Muradnagar upazila on Thursday morning, allegedly for their involvement in drug dealing...
Popular Life Insurance Company Limited on Thursday won the first prize for its initiatives against drug abuse, said a press release...
Home affairs adviser retried Lieutenant General Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Wednesday called drug and corruption as the worst afflictions of society and lamented that no measures could rein in their rampant spread...
Sri Lanka鈥檚 anti-narcotics drive has resulted in the seizure of more than three tonnnes (6,600 pounds) of illegal drugs with a street value of $76 million this year, officials said Monday...
Bangladesh Academy of Science, the apex organisation of eminent scientists and technologists, elected Professor ABM Badruzzaman, vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, as Fellow in its 16th council meeting on May 18...
At least 10 Border Guard Bangladesh personnel, including its 64 Battalion deputy commander, were injured as supporters of an arrested Yaba peddling suspect attacked a BGB patrol team in the Moulvibazar area under Teknaf upazila in Cox鈥檚 Bazar district Monday afternoon...
A case was filed on Thursday over an attack carried out allegedly by a collaborator of the Awami League and his supporters on the premises of Dhaka Reporters Unity in the capital Dhaka on Wednesday night...
At least two members of the Border Guard Bangladesh were injured in an attack allegedly by suspected drug dealers at the Nazir Gomani border under Patgram upazila in Lalmonirhat early Sunday...
The four-day Syed Badruddin Hossain Memorial Theatre Festival 2025 ended on Sunday with the staging of Natya Teertha鈥檚 production Dwip at the experimental theatre hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy...
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha chairman engineer Md Riazul Islam on Monday said work of identifying illegal parts of 3,382 under construction buildings in Dhaka that deviated from the design has began.
PRICES of various brands of the same medicine vary. They vary depending on on the manufacturers. And, this suggests the absence of proper oversight on drug pricing. This remains a concern as the Directorate General of Drug Administration has only 117 essential drugs on its platter to set the maximum prices for. An earlier estimate shows that Bangladesh manufactures...
Prices of the identical generic drugs vary considerably from manufacturer to manufacturer in the country due to a lack of government oversight regarding drug pricing...
Writer and left politician Badruddin Umar in a statement on Thursday announced that he would not accept Independence Day award...
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion on Thursday arrested two youths allegedly engaged in drug dealing for attack on police in Karwan Bazar area of Dhaka city on Thursday...
THE political landscape of Bangladesh has been irrevocably altered by the events of July and August 2024, when the Awami League, led by former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, responded to student-led protests with brutal repression. Law enforcement, alongside party activists, cracked down on predominantly non-violent demonstrations, culminating...
Zambia has invited Bangladesh to explore the opportunities of establishing a pharmaceutical plant in its land while the southern African nation is keen to Bangladesh made pharmaceutical products...
The aim is to reduce or eliminate the amount paid by beneficiaries of Medicare, a health coverage program available to Americans over the age of 65...
The recent decision of the interim government to expand the VAT net and hike VAT rates at the behest of the International Monetary Fund has justifiably attracted harsh criticisms from all quarters. This is the worst decision of the interim government since its inception following the overthrow of the autocratic regime of Sheikh Hasina and is hence bound...
A 54-year-old farmer was beaten to death, reportedly after attempting to stop a group of youths from consuming marijuana in Puthia village of Shahjadpur upazila in Sirajganj on Tuesday night...
Zepbound, from drugmaker Eli Lilly, is already approved for people who are obese or overweight and have a related health condition, such as type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol or high blood pressure...
Eminent writer and researcher Badruddin Umar claimed that true history of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War had not been written and what had been written was the official narrative and 80-90 per cent of those were fabricated.
