India had lifted its ban on onion exports with immediate effect, said a notification from the country’s Directorate General of Foreign Trade on Saturday. While the prohibition for onion export
A national guideline on heat-related illnesses will be launched on Sunday, May 5, 2024, to protect children and vulnerable populations including pregnant women from heat-related health risks. The Directorate General
Over 100 temperature records fell across Vietnam in April, according to official data, as a deadly heatwave scorches South and Southeast Asia. Extreme heat has blasted Asia from India to
Three more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Friday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 27 this year. During the
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party said on Friday that a free and fair upazila parishad election was not possible under the incumbent ‘vote rigger’ government in the country. BNP
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia, who is currently undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital in the capital, was shifted to a cabin from the Coronary Care Unit on Thursday. ‘Madam
All secondary level educational institutions which remained closed for countrywide heatwave condition will reopen on Saturday. The ministry of education issued a notice in this regard on Thursday morning.
The classes in the government primary schools, Shishu Kalyan Trust schools, and Bureau of Non-Formal Education learning centres will be resumed from May 5 with shortened period and no outdoor
Ten people have died of heatstroke in the last seven days across the country, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Among them, three died in the last 24 hours
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the High Court’s bail order given earlier to BNP joint secretary general Khairul Kabir Khokon in a case filed over the murder of two Jatiyatabadi Chhatra