Cos pay doctors for drug promotion

Pharmaceutical companies are bribing doctors and drug retailers providing them with gift or financial inducement for sales promotion in Bangladesh.

Tourist ship catches fire in Sunderbans, 26 rescued

A fire broke out in a tourist launch with 26 on board under Harbaria area of Chandpai range in the Sunderbans, on Friday evening.

People will not allow relocating Zia’s grave: Fakhrul

Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said the people of the country would not accept any ‘imprudent’ move by the government to relocate the grave of former president, Ziaur Rahman, from Sher-e-Bangla Nagar to elsewhere.

1.35 lakh Yaba tablets seized at Teknaf

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard seized 1.35 lakh pieces of contraband Yaba tablets at Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar early Saturday.

Humanitarian assistance for Rohingya: UN seeks govt permission

Several UN bodies and international organisations contacted the government seeking consent to their planned operations for providing humanitarian assistance to several thousand distressed Rohingyas who entered Bangladesh fleeing atrocities by Myanmar military in Rakhine state.

AL to hold special prayers for PM Hasina

Awami League will hold special prayers on Friday seeking good health and long life of prime minister and party president Sheikh Hasina.

Khaleda begins defending her in charitable trust case

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday pleaded not guilty to abuse of power as prime minister in managing fund for Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Charitable Trust and said that the whole country now turned into a prison.

CHT deal not implemented in 19 years

Major features of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord remain unimplemented even inside 19 years of its signing allegedly because of the subsequent governments’ indifference to the implementation of the deal.

10,000 Rohingyas enter Bangladesh: UNHCR

Cox’s Bazar district administration on Wednesday sought directives from the government as about 10,000 persecuted Rohingyas already arrived at places of the district sneaking into Bangladesh fleeing military crackdown on the religious minority group in Rakhine state on Myanmar.

Mangal Shobhajatra new UNESCO cultural heritage

The UNESCO on Wednesday recognised Mangal Shobhajatra, an annual procession of well-being brought out on Bangla New Year, as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.