June2017

News Hour: A European Medicines Agency (EMA) panel recommended on Friday approving Novartis’s Kisqali drug, bolstering the Swiss drugmaker’s bid to challenge rival Pfizer’s Ibrance against tough-to-treat breast cancer. The EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for...

News Hour: Proceeds from a clash between London soccer giants Arsenal and Chelsea will go to support people caught up in the Grenfell Tower fire, the Football Association said on Friday. Officials said they were hoping...

News Hour: A customer in Bashundhara City shopping complex has allegedly been assaulted by the salespersons of the Infinity store, a shop located at the glitzy shopping mall in the capital. Hassan Mahmud Tushar, the alleged...

News Hour: Bill Cosby plans to conduct a series of free public seminars about sexual assault this summer, his spokesman said days after a Pennsylvania judge declared a mistrial in the entertainer’s sexual assault trial. A...

News Hour: The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announces the Preliminary Squad for the home series against Australia and the Tour of South Africa 2017. The conditioning camp for the cricketers will begin on 10 July 2017...

News Hour: More than 5.6 million children are at increased risk of contracting waterborne diseases, such as cholera and diarrheal infections, as the rainy season begins in conflict-affected areas of countries around Lake Chad, UNICEF warned...

News Hour: The Datsun brand has flagged off the second leg of its “Datsun Experience Zone” experiential activity, which will cover 650 locations throughout India over the next three months. This second phase of the Experience...

News Hour: Volkswagen is reducing the workforce at its core division more rapidly than planned, its human resources chief said, helping the brand make headway on cost-cuts needed to revive the business, reports Reuters. More than 7,500...

News Hour: Ford Motor Co is recalling nearly 16,000 Ikon and Figo models in South Africa due to a potential fire risk, it said on Friday. The models were built between 2004 and 2012 in India,...

News Hour: Europe sizzled in a continent-wide heat wave on Wednesday, with London seeing Britain’s hottest June day since 1976 as Portugal battled to stamp out deadly forest fires. More than 1,000 firefighters were still fighting...