Govt undertaking initiatives to improve housing for low-income people: Minister
Govt undertaking initiatives to improve housing for low-income people: Minister

Housing and Public Works Minister Zakaria Taher on Sunday said the government has undertaken a number of short and long-term initiatives to address the housing problems of low-income people by ensuring affordable and rental-based housing facilities across the country, including the capital, reports...

Tarique Rahman becomes close kin to marginalized people
Tarique Rahman becomes close kin to marginalized people

Nobody thinks about them. No one visits them except during elections once every five years. Nobody listens to their stories of hardship or tells them, as a loved one would, I am one of you. This is how the vast marginalised population of Bangladesh lives neglected and uncared for. No one stands by...

Japan is offering to pay single people to go on dating apps
Japan is offering to pay single people to go on dating apps

Japans Kochi prefecture is offering financial incentives to get young singles to use dating apps, one of a range of initiatives to combat declining birthrates. People aged 20 to 39 in the southwestern region can receive up to 20,000 yen ($125) to cover most of the cost of approved matchmaking...

What do people dream at the end of life? Study reveals shared visions
What do people dream at the end of life? Study reveals shared visions

New research suggests that people in the final days of their lives tend to experience remarkably similar dreams and visions, offering comfort, and occasionally distress, as death approaches. Scientists from the Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia in Italy questioned 239 palliative care workers,...

Bangladeshi among 17 people found dead on Libyan coast
Bangladeshi among 17 people found dead on Libyan coast

At least 17 bodies believed to be those of migrants have been recovered in recent days from the shore near a coastal town west of the Libyan capital, Tripoli-based medics said on Saturday. The Emergency Medicine and Support Center, which operates under the health ministry, ⁠said the bodies...

More than 1.1 million people displaced in Lebanon: UN
More than 1.1 million people displaced in Lebanon: UN

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric has said that the number of men, women and children registered as displaced in Lebanon has now reached 1.1 million, close to one-fifth of the countrys population, reports Al Jazeera. About 137,000 of those people are living in shelters, Dujarric told reporters...