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...
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.
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...
Police have arrested Awami Swechchhasebak League leader Iftekharul Islam Shuvo, 35, in four attempted murder cases filed during the anti-discrimination student movement...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Pubali Bank PLC and Aqidah Healthcare Limited have recently signed an agreement, said a press release...
A leader of Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal, voluntary wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was killed on Wednesday night as its two factions allegedly clashed over internal conflict at Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party鈥檚 three front organisations - Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, Jubo Dal, and Swechchhasebak Dal - will hold a 鈥楻ally for Establishing Youth Political Rights鈥� at Nayapaltan in Dhaka on Wednesday.
At least 82 Rohingyas reportedly returned spontaneously to Myanmar鈥檚 Rakhine state last week, the first known instance of voluntary repatriation since the mass exodus of 2017, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...
Midland Bank PLC and Generic Healthcare Ltd, an innovative digital healthcare service provider, signed a memorandum of understanding to improve healthcare access and delivery among the underserved communities...
Soforon Foundation has recently held a workshop titled Nirban on the mental healthcare of the survivors of the July uprising at the BRAC Centre of Mohakhali in Dhaka.
Police on Friday arrested a leader of Swechchhasebak League, youth front of the Awami League, in a murder case at the residence of a Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader at Badalgachi upazila in Naogaon early Friday.
THE health sector may claim notionally to cater universal health coverage as the doors and the windows to all public health facilities are open to all citizens. The universal health coverage, however, relates to three specific dimensions, not available now in public health facilities. These are the quality of service and equitability with its two dimensions 鈥� reaching everyone...
Unidentified people hacked a leader of Swechchhasebak League, youth front of the Awami League, in Rajshahi city on Thursday night.
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...
