Tuesday | 16 June 2026 | Reg No- 06
Forty members of parliament (MPs) on Friday adopted a declaration to achieve tobacco-free Bangladesh by 2040, participating in a conference in Cox’s Bazar district. The three-day long “Members of Parliament (MPs) Conference for Achieving Tobacco-Free Bangladesh by 2040” was organized
'We want to make the parliament as the centre of anti-tobacco movement. The budget session is coming soon, all of us (MPs) have to talk against the tobacco at least one minute', said Shahiduzzaman Sarker MP, chairman of the parliamentary
All members of parliaments should raise their voice against tobacco, Shahiduzzaman Sarker, chairman of parliamentary standing committee on Law Ministry, has said. “We want to make parliament as the center of anti-tobacco movement. The budget session will begin soon, all
At least 153 MPs write to the Prime Minister to control tobacco in the country, Prof. Dr. Habibe Millat MP, Chairman of Bangladesh Parliamentary Forum for Health and Wellbeing, has said. He said this at a conference titled “Members of
The alleged disappearance of homeopathic physician Sheikh Mokhlesur Rahman Jony in 2016 from Satkhira Sadar Police Station had remained a mystery for the last six years. However, a judicial probe on Mokhlesur's disappearance, the first ever publicly known investigation in
At least 75 people were killed and 600 people were injured in road accidents during Eid holidays in last four days. More than three hundred and fifty people were admitted in the National Institute of Traumatology & Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR)
Hundreds of people have been standing in long queues at Kamalapur Railway Station ticket counters for half a day and ended up shouting and getting angry as they did not manage to get their intended tickets. A young man was
Huge quantities of Yaba tablets are still being smuggled into Bangladesh by dealers. The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 6 lakh 90 thousand pieces of Burmese Yaba worth Tk 20 crores 70 lakh during two separate raids in Gorjanbania area
Investigators are yet to unearth the motive or the mastermind behind the recent killing of Zahidul Islam Tipu, former general secretary of Awami League's Motijheel Thana committee.A Dhaka court on Saturday sent an Awami League leader and four others to
Bangladesh is 106th among 183 countries for recording the most road accident related deaths. The number of road accidents in the country has been continuously rising over the past several years despite the government's commitment to reduce it by 20
