Jamuna Bank stakeholders to get healthcare benefits
Jamuna Bank PLC on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding with Apollo Clinic-licensee JMI Specialized Hospital Limited, said a press release...
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In need of solution to issues that cripple rural health care
AN ACUTE shortage of human resources and essential facilities at healthcare institutions in rural areas, especially at upazila and district public hospitals, shows the systemic neglect that has rendered rural health services inadequate. The situation also disproportionately burdens the poor and low-income people as they primarily depend on these hospitals. Ill-equipped...
Bangladesh health adviser asks doctors to prioritise duties
Bangladesh interim government health and family welfare adviser Nurjahan Begum on Friday urged doctors to refrain from political involvement and prioritise their responsibilities as healthcare providers.
City sign goalkeeper Donnarumma from PSG as Ederson departs
Manchester City confirmed the signing of Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma from Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday after selling the long-serving Ederson to Fenerbahce.
Businesses seek free health sector
Private healthcare entrepreneurs on Saturday at a discussion in Dhaka demanded an unregulated health sector, with prices of medicines and services left to the market forces.
Govt to set price of essential medical tests: Sayedur
The government is working to prepare a list of essential medical tests in order to set their prices and bring down healthcare expenses, said professor Md Sayedur Rahman, special assistant to the interim government chief adviser, on Tuesday.
Midland Bank, BRAC Healthcare sign deal
Midland Bank PLC on Monday signed an agreement with BRAC Healthcare, said a press release...
Praava Health celebrates 8th anniv
Healthcare brand Praava Health has recently celebrated its 8th anniversary, said a press release...
Community-based protection for Rohingyas
THE world is going through a major crisis, with more than 120 million people forced to leave their homes because of war, violence, climate change and poverty. According to the UNHCR鈥檚 latest report, over 43 million of them are refugees who have crossed into other countries looking for safety and a better life. From Syria and Sudan to Venezuela and Myanmar...
Secure green future
A SECURE green future is not a slogan. It is a road map for any country that wants prosperity to last. As societies digitise everything from banking and energy to healthcare and education, two questions must be asked together, not separately. Does this system protect people鈥檚 data and livelihoods? And, does it minimise harm to the environment? If the answer to either...
HC orders antivenom supply to upazila hospitals
The High Court on Monday asked the secretary of health ministry, director general of the directorate general of drug administration and authorities concerned to supply adequate antivenom in all Upazila Health Complexes across the country as soon as possible for snake bite patients...
ACC sues ex-Basic bank chair Bachchu, 8 others
The Anti-Corruption Commission filed a case against nine people, including former Basic Bank Limited chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bachchu, for their alleged involvement in embezzling Tk 12 crore...
Discharge of HC rule by AD judicial anarchy: SC
In a strongly worded full verdict, the Appellate Division has observed that if it discharges a rule issued by the High Court under article 102 of the constitution the decision amounts to 鈥榡udicial anarchy鈥� and is unconstitutional and void from the outset...
NRB Nishchoyota, NRB Easy launched
On the occasion of NRB Bank PLC鈥檚 12th Anniversary, the bank has recently officially launched two innovative products, namely NRB Nishchoyota and NRB Easy, said a press release...
Inhabitants face healthcare crisis, lone pharmacist serves 70,000 people
Despite being home to nearly 70,000 people, Char Asariadaha union located across the River Padma at Godagari upazila in Rajshahi has a state-run healthcare centre, but there are no doctors, nurses and medicine available at the facility and...
BAGHC observes environment day
Banophool Adibashi Green Heart College celebrated the World Environment Day 2025 with a series of events under the theme 鈥楴o more plastic pollution, it鈥檚 time to stop it鈥�, reaffirming its commitment to environmental protection and sustainability on July 24...
Funding cuts increase monsoon risks for Rohingyas: UNHCR
Reductions in funding for a community maintenance programme in the Rohingya camps of Cox鈥檚 Bazar have not only affected their incomes but also compromised safety during the monsoon season, the UN Refugee Agency has warned...
MoU signed to launch UN rights office in Bangladesh
The United Nations Human Rights Office and Bangladesh have signed a memorandum of understanding to launch a rights office in Bangladesh for a three-year period to support the promotion and protection of human rights in the country.
Badiul to challenge parts of HC verdict on 15th amendment
Civil society platform Susashoner Jonno Nagorik secretary Badiul Alam Majumdar, a petitioner against the constitution鈥檚 15th amendment, on Tuesday said that he would file an appeal challenging parts of a December High Court verdict that cancelled the amendment...
Swechchhasebak League leader arrested in Rangpur
Police have arrested Awami Swechchhasebak League leader Iftekharul Islam Shuvo, 35, in four attempted murder cases filed during the anti-discrimination student movement...
BSF returns Swechchhasebak League leader, his associate
A judicial magistrate court in Sylhet sent a leader of Swechchhasebak League, the volunteer organisation of the Awami League, and one of his associates to jail on Sunday, a day after they were handed over to the Border Guard Bangladesh by the Indian Border Security Force...
Police kept inactive to fuel anarchy, delay polls: BNP, wings
Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its three affiliated bodies 鈥� Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal, and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal 鈥� on Saturday accused the government of deliberately paralysing the police administration to fuel instability across the country as a pretext for delaying the national election...
Swechchhasebak Dal activist鈥檚 house set on fire in Kushtia
The house of a Swechchasebak Dal activist was set on fire by some miscreants at village Jamalpur of Bheramara upazila in Kushtia on early Saturday...
1.5 lakh Rohingyas entered Bangladesh in last 18 months: UNHCR
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Friday called for more financial assistance from humanitarian partners as an additional 1,50,000 Rohingya people from Myanmar arrived in Bangladesh鈥檚 Cox鈥檚 Bazar in the last 18 months.
Indian villagers beat 5 to death for 鈥榳itchcraft鈥�
Indian villagers beat a family of five to death and dumped their corpses in a lake accusing them of 鈥榩ractising witchcraft鈥� after the death of a boy, police said Tuesday...
SC lawyers protest at HC decentralisation plan
Supreme Court lawyers on Monday protested against a move by 30 political parties to decentralise the High Court by establishing benches in divisional towns, warning that such a step threatens the unitary structure of the judiciary and violates the constitution...
DNCC to operate urban healthcare service
The Dhaka North City Corporation has taken the responsibility for operating urban healthcare services with an aim to make the primary healthcare more affordable and ensure better quality for its residents...
No appeal yet against HC verdict commuting death sentences
Nine years have passed since the harrowing extremist attack on Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka鈥檚 Gulshan on July 1, 2016, that left 22 people鈥�17 of them foreign nationals鈥攄ead, but no appeal has yet been filed, challenging the High Court verdict that commuted the death sentences of seven convicts to imprisonment until death...
RU students stage demo for 9-point demand
Students of Rajshahi University on Sunday staged a demonstration on the campus to press home their nine-point charter of demands including better residential facilities, improved healthcare, and digitisation of administrative services...
PBPLC signs deal with Aqidah
Pubali Bank PLC and Aqidah Healthcare Limited have recently signed an agreement, said a press release...