Heat claims 175,000 lives a year in Europe: WHO
Corrects story dated August 1 to change headline and 1st para to 鈥榟eat鈥� instead of extreme heat, following a correction issued by WHO Europe on August 2.
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48 HSC examinees get bail
Two Dhaka courts on Friday granted bail to 42 Higher Secondary Certificate examinees who were arrested in connection with cases filed on charges of violence and...
Cultural activists perform in street joining protests聽
Ganahatya O Nipiran Birodhi Shilpi Samaj, a platform for cultural activists, made a three-point demand expressing its solidarity with the ongoing quota reform movement and...
72 citizens condemn wholesale arrests, torture in remand
Seventy two eminent citizens in a statement on Tuesday strongly condemned the wholesale arrests of students via block raids and the reported torture under the guise of remand following the countrywide student protests...
Repression and propaganda
THE wholesale arrest of dozens of students and hundreds of leaders, activists and supporters of opposition parties in cases filed in connection with violence and vandalism during the student protests for reforms in government job quota is another misstep of the government, the like of which forced a peaceful protest into a violent one...
End to wholesale arrest, harassment demanded
Demand for an immediate end to wholesale arrest and harassment continued to pour in from different quarters.
31 cultural bodies urge to withdraw curfew, stop wholesale arrests
Thirty-One cultural organisations on Wednesday in a joint statement urged the government to withdraw the ongoing curfew and stop mass arrests, cases, and harassment of the people in the country...
Fuel shortages catastrophic for devastated health services in Gaza: WHO
The World Health Organisation chief has warned that a dire lack of fuel could have a 鈥榗atastrophic鈥� impact on already devastated health services in the war-ravaged...
2.6m die annually due to alcohol: WHO
Alcohol kills nearly three million people annually, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday, adding that while the death rate had dropped slightly in recent years it remained 鈥榰nacceptably high鈥�...
WHO blames Europe鈥檚 4 industries for 2.7m deaths a year
The WHO on Wednesday blamed four major industries 鈥� tobacco, ultra-processed foods, fossil fuel and alcohol 鈥� for 2.7 million deaths a year in Europe, accusing them of obstructing public policies that could hurt their profits...
Some Gazans drinking sewage water: WHO
Some Gazans are now reduced to drinking sewage water and eating animal feed, the WHO鈥檚 regional chief said on Tuesday, pleading for increased aid access immediately to the besieged territory...
Film to pay tribute to SN Bose
The shooting of the film on Bengali mathematician and theoretical physicist Satyendra Nath Bose titled 鈥楾he Man Who Pervades the Universe鈥� is scheduled to begin today...
WHO condemns 鈥榓brupt halt鈥� to medical evacuations from Gaza
Desperately needed medical evacuations from Gaza 鈥� already very limited 鈥� came to a full stop when Israel launched its military offensive on Rafah three weeks ago, the...
Medics, WHO say north Gaza hospitals barely operational
North Gaza鈥檚 last two functioning hospitals, Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan, are barely operational, doctors and the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday with the Israel-Hamas war now in its eighth month...
Cardiovascular diseases kill 10,000 Europeans a day: WHO
Cardiovascular disease is responsible for 40 per cent of deaths in Europe, the WHO said on Wednesday, urging Europeans to cut their salt intake...
Use of alcohol and e-cigarettes among children alarming: WHO
The widespread use of alcohol and e-cigarettes among adolescents is 鈥榓larming鈥�, according to a report released on Thursday by the World Health Organization's (WHO) European branch, which recommended measures to limit access.
H5N1 strain of bird flu found in milk: WHO
The H5N1 bird flu virus strain has been detected in very high concentrations in raw milk from infected animals, the WHO said on Friday, though how long the...
Human cases of bird flu 鈥榓n enormous concern鈥�, says WHO
The World Health Organization voiced alarm on Thursday at the growing spread of H5N1 bird flu to new species, including humans, who face an 鈥榚xtraordinarily high鈥� mortality rate...
Hepatitis viruses kill over 3,500 people a day: WHO
Over 3,500 people die from hepatitis viruses every day and the global toll is rising, the World Health Organization warned on Tuesday, calling for swift action to fight the second-largest infectious killer.聽...