The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has recently pressed the Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner to ensure accommodation of 1.13 lakh more Rohingyas amid uncertainty of repatriation...
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Tuesday told the UN Security Council that the Bangladesh interim government chose to engage with the parties to the conflict in the Rakhine state to pursue a solution to the Rohingya crisis that...
The Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, three front organisations of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, on Monday announced for May various programmes to be held in the country鈥檚 four...
The Yunnan-Bangladesh Education and Healthcare Cooperation Programme was held at Bangladesh Medical University in Dhaka on Monday...
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Wednesday that Iran鈥檚 enrichment of uranium as part of its nuclear programme was 鈥榥on-negotiable鈥� after US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff called for a halt...
The police have arrested Anisul Islam Chowdhury Tushar, 35, a leader of the Swechchhasebak League, in connection with a case filed over violence during anti-discrimination student protests in July in Moulvibazar.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has assured Dhaka to provide its continued support to Bangladesh, especially on Rohingya crisis.
Bangladesh, one of South Asia鈥檚 fastest-growing economies, holds immense potential in the healthcare sector. However, the country鈥檚 health system currently faces several critical challenges 鈥� particularly the high cost of treatment, increasing patient outflow to foreign countries, the rising burden of cancer and chronic diseases, and heavy reliance on imported...
ON MARCH 23, 2025, Feroze Sidhwa 鈥� a surgeon working in Gaza 鈥� posted an urgent update on the social media platform X:...
Fenerbahce coach Jose Mourinho grabbed the face of his opposite number at fierce local rivals Galatasaray after a 2-1 defeat on Wednesday in the Turkish Cup quarter-finals.
Medical waste generated in healthcare facilities poses serious health risks as many hospitals keep discharging untreated waste water into open water bodies and dumping solid wastes in nearby dustbins...
United Nations high commissioner for refugees Filippo Grandi has said brutal funding cuts in the humanitarian sector are putting millions of lives at risk...
UNIVERSAL health coverage aims to provide everyone with essential healthcare services without financial strain. However, despite global pledges to achieve universal health coverage by 2030, more than half of the world鈥檚 population still lacks access to basic health services. The Health Care Financing Strategy 2012...
IN BANGLADESH, the recent USAID funding freeze and the UK鈥檚 aid cuts have alarmed concerned stakeholders. Foreign assistance has long played a crucial role in healthcare, education, humanitarian aid, and climate adaptation. The fear is that without foreign aid from the giants, essential programs could collapse, leaving vulnerable communities at risk. But rather than...
The Bangladesh law, justice and parliamentary affairs adviser, Asif Nazrul, said the interim government was committed to an impartial and credible investigation into the July-August massacre in Bangladesh and due judicial processes for redress.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Friday visited the Rohingya camps in Ukhia, Cox鈥檚 Bazar.
Fenerbahce coach Jose Mourinho was handed a four-match ban and fined more than 40,000 euros by the Turkish football federation on Thursday for comments he made after an explosive Istanbul derby against Galatasaray.
Visiting United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi hoped that the international community would renew its focus to resolve the Rohingya crisis...
PATIENTS suffer across the country as the intern doctors of public hospitals in divisional towns went on a work abstention programme on February 23, demanding that anyone without a bachelor of medicine, surgery, or dental surgery cannot be allowed to use the title 鈥榙octor鈥�. Since healthcare services, particularly in the outpatient and emergency departments in the public...
THE much-awaited fact-finding report of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR, on the Protests of July and August 2024 in Bangladesh has been seen as instrumental in resolving many debates related to accountability and justice for the human rights violations from July 1 to August 15, 2024. Though all human rights violations may not...
The prolonged single-party rule had steadily politicised Bangladesh鈥檚 state institutions that permeated the country鈥檚 entire security sector as well, since authorities preferred recruitment and promotion there to be based on perceived political loyalty instead of professionalism, the UN rights office report said.
The UN rights office has said armed Awami League (AL) leaders incited their armed activists including now disbanded Chhatra League (BCL) to resort to violent means to suppress the July August protestors.
The United Nations Human Rights Office in a fact-finding report has stated that it did not find any genuine efforts by the Sheikh Hasina government to investigate any of the serious violations and abuses committed by the state鈥檚 security forces...
Thai prosecutors on Friday formally indicted a fugitive 86-year-old healthcare tycoon for loan fraud worth $480 million, officials said....
International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam on Thursday said the fact-finding Report of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) would be used at the tribunal as an irrefutable evidence for crimes against humanity during the July-August student-led mass uprising.
The Bangladesh interim government has welcomed the fact-finding report of the UN human rights office on the July-August protests.
The UN Human Rights Office will hold news conference on Human Rights Violations and Abuses related to the protests of July and August 2024 in Bangladesh.
A Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal leader was shot dead in front of his business establishment at Purba Lalpur at Fatullah in Narayanganj early Friday.
The healthcare system in the occupied West Bank has been in 鈥榓 state of perpetual emergency鈥� since October 2023, the Doctors Without Borders group said in a new report published on Thursday.
IF YOU live in Bangladesh, you live under the shadow of Dhaka. Whether it鈥檚 for higher education, advanced healthcare, legal proceedings, or career opportunities, the capital city is the unavoidable nerve centre of the country. Yet, its overburdened infrastructure, worsening pollution, and staggering congestion tell the story of a country trapped in an...