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A virus linked to prostate cancer also appears to play a role in chronic fatigue syndrome, according to research that could lead to the first drug treatments for a mysterious disorder that affects 17 million people worldwide.

A New York-based Volunteers of American Community (VOAC) Bangladesh said Gen (retd) Moeen U Ahmed had wanted to take over on 1/11, but failed to convince the international powers. In a statement issued

The energy ministry considers a feasibility study to take up a pilot project for an open pit mine as a test case in the Barapukuria underground coalmine from 2011, taking into account the ever-increasing energy

Rising temperature, droughts, fogginess, humidity, flash floods, cyclones and intrusion of salinity into arable lands – all have threatened Bangladesh agriculture, livelihoods and food security, say new studies calling for

The World Bank and IMF in Istanbul assured Bangladesh of providing swift financial assistance under flexible conditions to tackle the global economic recession and impacts of climate change, Finance Minister AMA Muhith

A parliamentary panel on Friday recommended immediate appointment of an expert committee, after discussions with all concerned, to study possible impacts of India’s planned Tipaimukh dam on Bangladesh. ‘We have

After around three decades of passage of the Ombudsman Act, the government has finally started looking for a competent person for the position to investigate allegations of corruption and abuse of power by public authorities

The reconstituted body of the law commission has prepared a 21-point work plan for next two years aiming at modernising some old laws and the judicial system of the country. The commission has recently sent a draft

Schoolgirl Rokeya Parveen Mou has been passing her agonising days in a hospital bed at Sherpur upazila in Bogra for 23 days as she sustained burn wound when a 22-year-old youth threw acid on her. Selim Ahmed,

Ruling Awami League (AL) high command appears not to be concerned about serious intra-party disputes in Chittagong and dismisses the feud as the “nature of Chittagong politics”. Party insiders say Prime Minister and

Tension persists along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border as the latter continues building up troops with heavy weapons on the frontiers. Bangladesh forces too remain on high alert, home ministry sources

Britain is building a training camp for Pakistan’s paramilitary Frontier Corps to help in the fight against the Taliban in the lawless border area with southern Afghanistan, a report said yesterday. The Times said Britain also

Bangladesh has reinforced paramilitary troop deployment along the border with Myanmar in the wake of the latest surge in tension. All but essential leaves of Bangladesh Rifles personnel have been cancelled. Tension mounted

The Supreme Court yesterday heard for the second day yesterday the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman assassination case. Syed Faruque Rahman, a convict in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman assassination case, said

The power development board’s proposal to increase power tariff led to story scenes at a meeting convened by the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) on Tuesday as both the officials of the PDB and representatives of

Around 10:00am on September 27. Safar Uddin and some others were eagerly waiting for someone at the emergency gate of National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (Nitor), popularly known as Pangu

The parliamentary standing committee on power, energy and mineral resources ministry yesterday said that the government should finalise the production sharing contracts with two foreign companies on gas exploration in three

Former general secretary of the ruling Awami League (AL) Abdul Jalil was dropped from the post of chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on commerce ministry yesterday. On a proposal from Chief Whip Abdus Shahid,

US ambassador James F Moriarty called on prime minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday morning before leaving Dhaka for Washington on a two weeks’ holiday. The two discussed the Bangladesh prime minister’s meeting with

LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday in parliament criticised newspapers for what he said negative reports on the city corporation bill. The bill was passed Monday rejecting a parliamentary body’s