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About 2.4 million people in five areas of Dhaka city will receive oral cholera vaccine in one week starting Sunday, according to the icddr,b.   The first dose of the cholera vaccine has been scheduled to be given from 8am to 4pm. Health Minister Zahid Maleque today inaugurated the country's largest oral cholera vaccination campaign at the icddr,b in Mohakhali. In Bangladesh, generally, there are two outbreaks of diarrhoea that take place during April-May and August-September. The number of diarrhoeal patients in Dhaka during March-May this year was many times higher than in the past. More than half of these patients were from areas such as Jatrabari, Dakshin Khan, Sabujbagh, Mohammadpur and Mirpur. During this time, the number of cholera patients rose to about 34 percent among all patients. So, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) urged the Inter...

  More than seven million Bangladeshis are still in "desperate" need of shelter and aid after deadly floods earlier this month, the Red Cross said Tuesday. At least 101 people were killed in the country's northeast when rivers swelled to record levels and inundated rural villages, after some of the heaviest rains in a century.  "The scale of devastation this time is so much more" than earlier floods, said Sanjeev Kafley of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). An estimated 7.2 million people were in "desperate need of shelter and emergency relief items" in the worst-hit Sylhet region, the IFRC said in a statement.  The government has sent food rations and other emergency humanitarian aid to those hit by the floods, said Nitai Dey Sarker of Bang...

Customers will finally get their hands on the electric model after lengthy production delays. Resource shortages, manufacturing delays, and shipping demand have plagued countless industries during the COVID-19 pandemic. The electric motorcycle market is no exception, and small startups like Malibu, California’s Sondors seem to be taking the brunt of the blow. When the company unveiled the Metacycle in January, 2021, EV diehards and doubters alike marveled at the electric motorbike’s 80-mph top speed, 80-mile range, and $5,000 price tag. Then, in September, 2021, the electric mobility brand announced that it had to move back initial Metacycle deliveries to Q4 2021. Sondors cited not just industry-wide challenges but also record-breaking demand as the cause for the setback. Unfortunately, the holidays came and went, and no Son...

Bangladesh floods leave 3.5 million children needing clean water: UNICEF Fifteen children have drowned in flash floods that swept through Bangladesh with another 3.5 million urgently needing clean drinking water as the risk of waterborne diseases grows, UNICEF's country representative said on Friday. "That's a staggering number of children and an increase over the last couple of days. Huge areas are fully underwater and are disconnected from safe drinking water and food supplies. Children need help right now," Sheldon Yett said. Government and aid agencies have rushed to provide relief including water and other supplies after flash flooding across a quarter of the South Asian nation The floods have also disrupted health facilities, shut schools and disrupted malnutrition treatment for hundreds of children, Yett told a briefing in Geneva. Cases of diarrhoea have risen to 2,700 as of the middle of this week, he added. Authorities in Bangladesh and neighbouring India hav...

UK health officials said Wednesday that "several" polioviruses were found in sewage samples between February and May. The find is raising concern that polio may have spread "between closely-linked individuals" in North and East London. No cases have been confirmed, and health officials say the risk to the public "is extremely low."  The UK Health Security Agency says it's possible that there may be "some spread" of polio happening in small clusters in London.  Wastewater samples taken from North and East London between February and May suggest that the crippling disease, which used to kill hundreds of people in the UK every year, could be circulating "between closely-linked individuals."  Experts are still cautious about this sewage finding, though, stressing that no polio cases have been confirmed in humans in the...

Flood waters inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled to reach more than 9.5 million people stranded with little food and drinking water after days of intense rain. Particularly heavy monsoon rain has brought the worst floods in more than a century in some parts of low-lying Bangladesh and have killed at least 69 people over the past two weeks there and in northeast India's Assam state. "People are without food. They are not even getting drinking water since floodwater submerged all tube-wells," Abu Bakar, 26, a resident of hard-hit Sunamganj district in Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina flew over some of the flood-hit areas on Tuesday, looking down on huge tracts covered by brown water, broken up by occasional outcrop of land, television footage showed. The monsoon brings heavy rains to South Asia between June and October, often triggering floods, especially in low-lying areas like Bangladesh, where rive...

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The Technical and Madrasah Education Division, Nagad, and the Directorate Of Posts recently signed an agreement to distribute stipends to technical and madrasa students. The main objective of the initiative is to disburse the stipend among the students in a timely and transparent manner. Students can visit any Nagad Uddokta point and withdraw their stipend without any charge. Md Shafayet Alam, executive director of Nagad said, "We have been successfully disbursing allowances and stipends with transparency in association with the government's various types of financial inclusion efforts." "We have now become involved in the disbursement of stipends to technical and madrasa students." amp-ad Placeholder here!!!

Health Minister Zahid Malek said on Sunday that 4,000 medical teams of the Health Services Division are ready to provide services in 11 flood-hit districts of the country, especially the worst-hit Sylhet and Sunamganj. Leaves for doctors, nurses and health workers at all levels in the Sylhet region have been canceled, said the minister at a hotel in the capital. Despite the unfavorable environment, water purification tablets, saline, medicines and food are being sent to these districts as much as possible. Read: Army puts stranded DU students on a bus headed home At present, 200 teams have been formed in Sylhet region, he added. The health minister said several districts, including Sylhet, have been hit by massive floods. "Especially the situation in Sylhet and Sunamganj are the worst-hit areas. For this, a control room has been set up at the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in Dhaka as well as locally." Flood situation in Sylhet started turning into a terrible d...

The Bermuda Triangle, Bigfoot and other urban legends that have faded over the years

The Bermuda Triangle: The Bermuda Triangle is an urban legend focused on a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of planes and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The idea of the area as prone to disappearances arose in the mid-20th century. Undefined triangle area: While some writers have set the vertices of the triangle in Miami, San Juan (Puerto Rico) and Bermuda, others have given different boundaries and vertices, even stretching it as far as the Irish coast. Consequently , the recount of which accidents occurred inside the triangle depends on which writer reported them. Compasses stopped working: Passing through the Bermuda Triangle, compasses stopped working, ships were swept away by currents, and clouds devoured airplanes in their path, according to some writers.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates said that cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are “100 percent based on greater fool theory.” The theory means that people can make money by purchasing assets that are overvalued and later selling them at a profit. Gates spoke at the Tech Crunch conference during the week. He said that he is not involved in cryptocurrency as he is used to asset classes such as “a farm, where they have output, or a company, where they make products.” He said that NFTs and cryptocurrencies are 100 percent based on “sort of greater fool theory that somebody’s going to pay more for it than I do.” According to Gates, at the heart of the crypto and NFT movement is an anonymity allowing buyers to avoid taxation or government rules about “kidnapping fees or things.” The billionaire also took aim at the “Bored Apes” collection of ethereum NFTs, jokingly adding that “digital images of monkeys are going to improve the world immensely.” Cryptocurrencies gained popularity du...

People are facing a lot problems due to the fire of daily commodities including rice, pulses, egg oil, fish and meat. The kitchen market is now unrestrained on the pretext of rising prices in the international market and the manipulation of very lucrative traders. It crushes low and middle income people. The price of rice has increased by 12 to 13 percent per kg at kitchen markets across the country during the year. Flour 39.61 per kg, flour 74.89, per liter soybean oil 47.6, palm oil 51.50, lentil pulses 36.61 per kg, potato 9.30, onion 23.53, garlic 12, chilli 34. 72, turmeric 35.29, beef 17.8, mutton 5.8, broiler chicken 18.31, powdered milk 21.62, sugar 16.84, salt 1.56 and eggs of each farm. The percentage has increased. In Kishoreganj, President of Consumer Association of Bangladesh (CAB) Alam Sarowar Tito said that, the middle class and low income people have become helpless due to the exorbitant prices of products. These two classes of people cannot cope with the expenses of th...

Monsoon storms in Bangladesh and India have killed at least 59 people and unleashed devastating floods that left millions of others stranded, officials said Saturday. Floods are a regular menace to millions of people in low-lying Bangladesh, but experts say climate change is increasing their frequency, ferocity and unpredictability. Relentless downpours over the past week have inundated vast stretches of Bangladesh's northeast, with troops deployed to evacuate households cut off from neighbouring communities. Schools have been turned into relief shelters to house entire villages inundated in a matter of hours by rivers that suddenly burst their banks. "The whole village went under water by early Friday and we all got stranded," said Lokman, whose family lives in Companiganj village. "After waiting a whole day on the roof of our home, a neighbour rescued us with a makeshift boat. My mother said she has never seen such floods in her entire life," the 23-year-old a...

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said the proposed comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA) will usher in a win-win situation for Bangladesh and India in trade and commerce. He urged the Indian businessmen to invest in the two specialised economic zones of Bangladesh - namely, Mongla and Mirsharai dedicated to Indian investors. Momen stated that the government of Bangladesh , based on its development aspirations, especially emphasises economic diplomacy to achieve Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Muzibur Rahman's dream of 'Shonar Bangla'. He made the remarks while delivering his keynote address in the seminar "Economic Diplomacy" in New Delhi, arranged by the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi in collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Momen stressed economic diplomacy as the most significant element of diplomacy in the face of ongoing global economic unrest and recent political developments in Europe. He stated ...

On a market stall in front of a blue-domed mosque in Kabul, large orange sacks are filled with stale, leftover naan bread. It's usually fed to animals, but now, according to those selling it, more Afghans than ever are eating it themselves. Shafi Mohammed has been selling stale bread for the past 30 years at Kabul's Pul-e-Kheshti market. "Before, five people used to buy this bread in a day, now it's more than 20 people," he says. The market is bustling - and everyone there we speak to complains of the economic crisis that has enveloped the country. Average incomes have been slashed by a third since the Taliban takeover last August, whilst food prices have risen sharply. Rifling through the sacks, Shafi Mohammed shows me the cleaner, though still stale, bread that customers who will eat it themselves search for, as opposed to even older, mouldy pieces. "The life of the Afghan people right now is like that of a bird which has been locked in a cage with no food ...