Porimol Palma

Namira's parents couldn't be happier when she started to go to bed early. It used to be difficult to put the 13-year-old to bed as she would spend hours on the internet and play video games. But the parents' relief was replaced with worries in less than a week. The eighth grader, pretending to be asleep under her blanket, was found playing on a tablet.

Thirty-year-old Belal Uddin was clueless about the lurking danger. With an iron rod, he was removing bricks at a construction site in Munshiganj's Gazaria area on January 13.

Luring Bangladeshis with lucrative jobs abroad, transnational human trafficking gangs are taking hundreds of people to war-torn Libya, and are holding them hostage there for ransom, torturing them, and using them as slaves. The gangs get tourist visas of Sudan, Dubai or Egypt for the victims and then fly them to Libya with fake visas from the countries, according to survivors and officials concerned.

Mazeda Begum's eyes filled with tears as she stood in silence. It was raining heavily and she looked pale. Suddenly, the 48-year-old burst into tears.

The capital is yet again experiencing an early outbreak of dengue and untimely rains may be to blame. Like last year, Aedes mosquitoes, transmitter of the dengue virus, have bred early this year alarming authorities and city dwellers and health officials say there are chances their number would be larger.

The longstanding anomalies in pricing coronary stents are set to be resolved as the drug administration started fixing the prices of the life-saving medical device for patients with blocked coronary arteries.

Cardiologists during their angioplasty and stent implant procedures on patients yesterday learnt stent suppliers went on an undeclared “strike”, putting heart patients' lives at stake and holding them hostage.

Over 45,000 under-five children die every year in Bangladesh from diarrhea caused by contaminated water, says a report of World

At the age of five, Kailash Satyarthi was deeply disturbed to see another small boy polishing shoes at the school gate. He asked his teacher why that boy was not going to school. Kailash could not understand why some children were different from him.

Even though two teams of engineering students from CUET and AIUB were selected by NASA for the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge, they are not taking part as most of the students had been denied visas.

Two Singaporean NGOs have sent a report to the United Nations, detailing that Bangladeshi expatriate workers face forced labour and debt bondage, but Bangladesh is not doing enough to protect them.

The government is embarking on the largest health sector programme, worth Tk 1,15,486 crore to be spent over the next five years, with special focus on diseases like cancer, heart ailments, diabetes, and improvements to health governance.

Khadiza Begum had been discharged from the psychiatric department of Bangladesh Medical College Hospital on March 11 and was asked to follow up with her consultant eight days later, on March 19.

As part of its efforts to bring tobacco consumption to zero by 2040, the government has drafted a policy to inspire tobacco farmers to go for alternatives crops.

If politicisation of profession takes upper hand, there will neither be an effective system to serve people nor will people have confidence in the government.

Over a month and a half has elapsed but the health secretary has not issued any circular asking doctors to write prescription in block letters or provide printed prescriptions in compliance with a High Court order issued on January 9.

At 23, her life should have been full of colours but instead it is as pale as it could get. This spring has brought her no joy at all.

When there is much to worry about the country’s health sector, surgeon and cancer specialist Prof Raqibul Anwar took the onus on

Since her childhood, Monjuara Parvin always had an empathy with the people of her community and determination to help them overcome their sufferings. However, she was yet to discover her writing skills.

Weak immune system linked to severe malnutrition could be a cause of “tree man” disease, doctors believe.