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6 killed in bus-auto collision in Gaibandha

Gaibandha, Nov 19 (UNB): At least six people were killed in a head-on collision between a bus and an auto-rickshaw on the Dhaka-Rangpur highway in Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha on Friday morning.Officer-in-charge of Gobindaganj police station Mostafizur Rahman said that the accident occurred when the Rangpur-bound passenger bus of Hanif...

Govt to buy 3.0m litres of soybean oil for OMS

The government is all set to purchase 3.0 million litres of soybean oil to sell it under the open market sale (OMS) programme to the consumers at an affordable price, officials said.The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has already selected a local supplier through tender to purchase the edible oil.Board...

50 migrant workers died in Qatar in 2020, says ILO

Qatar is not adequately investigating and reporting worker deaths including unexplained fatalities among seemingly healthy labourers, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) said on Friday, report agencies.The small but wealthy Gulf state, where foreigners make up the majority of the population, has faced scrutiny over worker conditions in the run up...

AL expels Gazipur Mayor Zahangir from party

The Awami League has expelled Gazipur Mayor Zahangir Alam from the ruling party after an audio of his remarks on Bangabandhu and Liberation War martyrs spread on social media, reports bdnews24.com.Presidium Member Zahangir Kabir Nanak confirmed the decision taken in a Central Working Committee meeting chaired by the party chief,...

Wild Asian elephant calf found dead near border

Sherpur, Nov 19 (UNB): A wild Asian elephant calf was found dead near the Panihata border of Sherpur's Nalitabari upazila Friday, forest officials said.This is the second carcass of a wild elephant that has been recovered from the area in the past 10 days.Nalitabari Upazila Nirbahi Officer Helena Parvin and...

72 more in hospitals with dengue

A total of 72 people were admitted to hospitals with dengue across the countrywide in the past 24 hours until Friday 8.00 am.With the latest count, total number of the dengue patients hospitalised in the country so far this year has reached 26,201, according to the daily bulletin of the...

Cases surge across Europe

Austria will become the first country in western Europe to reimpose a full COVID-19 lockdown, it said on Friday as Germany warned it may follow suit, sending shivers through financial markets worried about the economic fallout, report agencies.Meanwhile, the overall global number of infections now crossed 256 million amid the...

US House advances Biden's historic social welfare bill

WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (AFP): US lawmakers voted Friday to elevate President Joe Biden's giant social welfare bill to the Senate, in a major step forward for his vision for a more equitable society that is the centerpiece of his domestic agenda.Build Back Better-Biden's potentially legacy-defining package of education, health care,...

Diet-related illness increases: study

PARIS, Nov 19 (AFP): As global trade in red and processed meats has increased, so have chronic diseases associated with meat consumption, a study looking at data from 154 countries found on Thursday.Researchers focused on illness and death rates from three diseases strongly linked to red and processed meat consumption:...

Students try to intercept a bus

Students try to intercept a bus at Agargaon in the city on Friday while staging a demonstration demanding that the transport workers responsible for the attack on a student of Titumir College be brought to justice and that buses introduce ‘half fare’ for the students — bdnews24.com