Each cigarette in Canada now comes with warning label. Each cigarette sold in Canada effective Tuesday now comes with an individual health warning that “cigarettes cause impotence” and cancer, and that there is “poison in every puff.”The labelling rule announced in May aims to further crack down on smoking and is a world first. Canada’s […]

Myanmar junta cuts six years from Suu Kyi’s 33-year jail term.Myanmar reduced ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s 33-year prison sentence by six years in a partial pardon on Tuesday, as the junta struggles to quell bloody resistance to its rule. The country has been ravaged by violence in the two years since Suu […]

The High Court has directed the authorities concerned to form a seven-member expert committee to formulate policies for preventing the spread of thalassemia, a hereditary blood deficiency disease. A High Court division bench comprising Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Muhammad Mahbub-ul Islam passed the order yesterday. Formulate policies to prevent spread of thalassemia: HC The […]