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The healthcare group has offered to pay up to 5.5 billion US dollars to settle thousands of lawsuits alleging its talc-based baby powder caused ovarian cancer, while continuing to deny the claims.
Women students at Dhaka University have submitted a memorandum to the vice-chancellor demanding the withdrawal of night-time curfew rules in the women's halls, giving a seven-day ultimatum.
An angry crowd surrounded and attacked the Jashore home of the MP for Jashore-4, Golam Rasul, after what one section of residents describes as a misunderstanding involving his daughter.
An 18-year-old higher secondary student of Mirpur Bangla College was shot in both legs by unidentified attackers in the Manikdi area of the capital.
More than a crore people in Bangladesh live with long-term hepatitis B or C, and nine in 10 do not know it. World Hepatitis Day falls today.
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has held a workers' conference in Jagadishpur union of Chougachha upazila in Jashore, where the upazila Amir said the party would contest every union in the coming polls.
Police have arrested a 32-year-old man wanted in an arms case from his father-in-law's house in the Baikali area of Khulna. He faces four cases, including one for possessing an illegal firearm.
A 24-year-old man was shot and hacked with sharp weapons in an attempt on his life outside Khulna Riverview Park, police say. He is under treatment at Khulna Medical College Hospital.
Police have recovered the body of a 21-year-old man with gunshot wounds from a fish enclosure south of Arangghata railway station in Khulna city.
By the definition that matters — annual precipitation, not temperature — the largest desert on Earth is Antarctica, which receives an average of just two inches a year.
Military repression and air strikes on civilians in Myanmar have risen significantly since the new military leadership took charge, the conflict monitor ACLED says.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman wants production to start at the China Economic and Industrial Zone in Anwara within 18 months, the BEZA executive chairman says.
Ahead of Israel's tightly contested general election on 27 October, a poll puts the former army chief Gadi Eisenkot's new party Yashar ahead of Netanyahu's Likud.
The Bangladesh embassy in Kathmandu has held an exhibition and festival of Bangladeshi mango varieties and mango-based products, drawing about 250 guests.
Delhi police have begun action over what they say was obscene and objectionable language used against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media during the NEET protest movement.
Decades before Jamestown or Plymouth, a Moroccan named Estevanico crossed what is now the American southwest. Muslims have shaped US music, religious liberty law and charitable giving ever since.
The Islamic scholar Sheikh Ahmadullah says trade in anything Islam forbids consuming is itself not permissible, so income from selling bidis and cigarettes is not lawful.
The Republican congressman Thomas Massie says the conflict with Iran has depleted US missile defences and fuel reserves, killed service members, raised consumer prices and added to the national debt.
A Bihar police constable has been dismissed after video showed him firing an AK-47 rifle at student protesters in Siwan district during a state-wide strike on 25 July.
Hiring a “boyfriend” by the hour, which began in Japan's rental-person economy of the 1990s, is spreading through social media and online platforms into India as a new kind of gig work.
The information and broadcasting minister, Zahir Uddin Swapan, says misinformation and disinformation have become a bigger challenge for journalism than press freedom.
In the fifth year of the Hijra, a single new convert whose tribe did not yet know he had accepted Islam sowed such distrust between the Quraysh and Banu Qurayza that their joint siege…
Amid opposition uproar, the Indian government has tabled an amendment bill in the Lok Sabha proposing up to 10 years in jail and fines of up to 10 crore rupees for examination paper leaks.
The state minister for power, energy and mineral resources, Anindya Islam Amit, says supply to the national grid should return to normal from next week as the LNG terminal fault is repaired.
Renewed fighting between Yemen's Houthis and Saudi Arabia has raised fears that the US-Iran war could widen, with analysts warning of serious consequences for the global economy.
Health experts are urging people to cut back on salt and processed food, warning that common items in the daily diet are quietly raising the risk of hypertension.
A 70-year-old man died after being punched and beaten when he went to protect his grandson, who was being assaulted at a village arbitration over an allegation of phone theft in Gaffargaon.
The government has withdrawn the order cancelling the licence of Ad-din Medical College Hospital in Moghbazar and allowed it to operate subject to conditions.
Discipline corrects; abuse leaves fear, humiliation and lasting mental scars. Families, schools, society and the state must adopt a policy of zero tolerance for violence against children.
Forty-eight years after the world's first test-tube baby was born in Oldham, IVF has produced an estimated 13 to 17 million children — and Louise Brown is still telling couples not to lose hope.
A film actor has filed a case at Khilkhet police station alleging she was tied up and beaten for two hours by the chairman of Ashiyan Group, who says the allegations are false.
Detective police have arrested Md Nazrul Islam, general secretary of the Satkhira district unit of the banned Awami League, from the Bashundhara residential area in Dhaka.
President Donald Trump has dismissed concerns about depleted US munitions stocks, saying the United States has far more ammunition than any other country and more than it needs.
Police have arrested those involved in the shooting of a Jubo Dal worker in Kafrul, saying the attack was planned by a local Swecchasebak Dal leader who hired shooters on a 25 lakh taka…
Facing accusations of understating US casualties in the war with Iran, the Pentagon has changed how it publishes the figures — and says the number wounded this month is higher than previously stated.
The National Tree Fair 2026 at Agargaon runs until 8 August with 120 stalls and some 2,500 species of plants, from rare medicinal varieties to 40-year-old bonsai.
Concerns raised by Vice-President JD Vance and General Dan Caine over munitions stocks and possible civilian deaths preceded the pause in nearly two weeks of nightly US strikes on Iran, CNN reports.
Hafez of Shiraz, the 14th-century Persian Sufi poet revered as Lisan-ul-Ghaib, the tongue of the unseen, and Tarjuman-ul-Asrar, the interpreter of mysteries.
A forged DO letter using the Deputy Speaker's signature, official pad, government logo and reference number was submitted to ministries and offices to seek improper favours, the parliament secretariat says.
At least 40 people have died in months of clashes, blockades and strikes in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, where assembly elections are about to begin amid a boycott call and a communications blackout.
Israeli forces have arrested more than 120 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank over two days, the prisoners' rights group Samidoun says, describing the raids as punitive.
Three people, including two sisters, were killed when a truck hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Ramu in Cox's Bazar. Three others were seriously injured.
Israeli settler organisations and political leaders have called for revenge against Palestinians, with the finance minister urging the erasure of three West Bank villages after four residents were killed.
A tribunal has taken formal charges on record against 41 people, including the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, over the 2013 killings at Shapla Chattar, and issued arrest warrants for those absconding.
Cases of guests being secretly filmed in hotel rooms are being reported at home and abroad. A smartphone is enough to run four basic checks before you settle in.
The chief election commissioner, A M M Nasir Uddin, will meet the acting Speaker, Kaisar Kamal, on Tuesday over the schedule for the presidential election.
Administrative work has resumed at Khulna University after a four-day shutdown, but protesting students say they will continue boycotting classes and examinations until their three demands are met in full.
A tribunal has issued an arrest warrant for Additional DIG Mohammad Zahirul Islam, a former superintendent of police for Magura, in a case alleging a sexual relationship on the promise of marriage.
Julián Álvarez has made his wish to join Barcelona clearer, and is preparing to state his position publicly after Atlético Madrid declined to discuss a reported 100 million euro offer.
The local government minister and BNP secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, says the presidential election will be held on time and the party will nominate a candidate according to its own decision.
Microplastics were found in 26 of 34 toothpastes tested in Bangladesh, and in none of eight others. The article lists every brand tested and the level measured in each.
Registration for students in class nine in the 2026-27 academic year will run from 2 August to 30 August, the Dhaka Education Board says in an urgent notice.
Five more children have died with measles symptoms in the past 24 hours and 1,105 children have been infected with measles or its symptoms, the Directorate General of Health Services says.
The results of this year's Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations will be published on 10 August, the secondary and higher education secretary says.
Hindu groups have organised a Shiva puja within 50 metres of the historic Adina Mosque in Malda district of West Bengal, claiming the 1373 monument was originally a Shiva temple. The site is protected…
The West Bengal chief minister, Suvendu Adhikari, alleges that most of those involved in violence at protests over an exam paper leak in India were not students, and that investigators will examine possible foreign…
The Public Works Department, Dhaka University, DMP and Dhaka South City Corporation have carried out a joint drive to clear illegal structures and shops from Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital.
Nine months after Rajshahi University's central students' union was revived following a 36-year gap, students say visible progress has come in some areas but many of the biggest election pledges remain unfulfilled.
Law Minister Md Asaduzzaman says a Time magazine report puts illegal outflows from Bangladesh at 234 billion dollars over the past 16 years — an average of about 16 billion dollars a year.
Bangladesh will need about $421bn in additional financing over the next five years to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, a review of the government's updated SDG financing strategy says.