Cancer patients miss out on treatment
Over 15 lakh cancer patients in the country struggle to get treatment as there are only one bed for 3,000 cancer patients and only 85 posts of oncologists to treat them at government hospitals.
Dutch queen Máxima in city
In her capacity as the UN secretary-general’s special advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development, Dutch queen Máxima arrived here on Monday morning on a three-day visit.
French jets bomb Syria in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa
French fighter jets bombed a series of ISIS sites in Raqqa, Syria, on Sunday in what officials described as a major bombardment.
Paris attacks: Authorities hunt for a French national
Authorities are hunting for a Belgium-born French national who's one of three brothers suspected in the Paris terror attacks.
10 killed after French high-speed train derails and crashes into canal
At least 10 people were killed in eastern France on Saturday after a high-speed train came off the tracks and plunged into a canal during a test run, authorities said.
Japan's economy is back in recession...again
Yikes! Japan's economy has fallen back into recession. Gross domestic product contracted by an annualized 0.8% in the third quarter, Japan's Cabinet Office said Monday. Growth also shrank in the previous quarter, officially putting the world's third-largest economy on the rocks.
Fingerprint mismatch glitch hits biometric SIM registration trial
The country’s mobile phone operators on Sunday started piloting biometric verification of SIM registration with a glitch caused by mismatch between the subscribers’ fingerprints taken at their customer centres and those stored in the national identity card database of the Election Commission.
LOCAL ELECTIONS ON PARTISAN BASIS : Only mayor, chairman candidates to contest with party symbols
Stepping back from its previous decision, the government has now decided not to allow councilor and member candidates to contest local body polls with party symbols.
RESCHEDULING LOANS : IMF criticises govt’s policy
The International Monetary Fund has criticised the policy of allowing errant borrowers to reschedule loans, saying such policies only helped in improving the balance sheets of banks artificially.
Dhaka Lit Fest-2015 to kick off Nov 19
The three-day Dhaka Literary Festival-2015 will be held on Bangla Academy premises in November 19-21.
