Russia should be finished calling up reservists in two weeks, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, promising an end to a divisive mobilisation that has seen hundreds of thousands of...
Western countries this week ratcheted up their criticism of China, the world's largest bilateral creditor, as the main obstacle to moving ahead with debt restructuring agreements for the growing number...
An explosion in a coal mine in Turkey's northern Bartin province on Friday killed 22 people, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said, but it was not clear how many people were...
Bangladesh has started unloading wheat from the first Russian shipment since the Ukraine war began in February. Russia has sent 52,500 tonnes of wheat in the first shipment as part...
Several officials of the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh will be sacked by Sunday for the recent grid failure that left tens of millions of people without power for several...
Tanners requested the government to ensure uninterrupted power supply to their units located at the tannery industrial estate in Savar for continuing leather processing smoothly, sources said. The Bangladesh Tanners...
LafargeHolcim Bangladesh Ltd. (LHBL) has reported a 21 per cent growth in its EPS (earnings per share) for the July-September (Q3) period of 2022, compared to the same quarter in...
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) has urged the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to establish a petrochemical industry in the Matarbari-Moheshkhali project area. "Bangladesh lacks...
Production in the country's lone hard-rock mine at Maddhapara under Parbatipur in Dinajpur resumed on Thursday after a hiatus of over four months due to scarcity of explosives. The state-run...
The Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) expressed grave concern, as most of the leading trade and investment partner countries of Bangladesh had been systematically failing to take actions against bribery in...
Rights-based civil-society representatives on Friday demanded urgent action to safeguard women and girls who are at risk in terms of health and livelihood owing to the impact of climate change....
Brunei Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah is scheduled to arrive in the city on his first state visit to Bangladesh this (Saturday) afternoon. President Abdul Hamid will receive the Sultan at...
Bangladesh has been in peril for not creating demand-driven employment opportunities mainly due to the absence of required digital skills and adequate policy support amid a widening digital divide. The...
Bangladesh has decided to seek funds for at least three projects from an emerging multilateral lender, New Development Bank (NDB), officials say, amid a current drive for foreign finances. The...
Poor people are extremely affected by inflation and the government of Bangladesh needs to extend further supports to cushion impacts of price hike on them, says a multilateral aid-agency representative...
RoboSUST, the only research-based robotics club of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), has launched its month-long flagship event - 'The Mythical RoboSUST Month,' and completed its flagship 5-day...
This country has long earned fame or infamy either for paradoxes at their most hilarious or pathetic. Paradoxes can be its weaknesses on the one hand; and strength, on the...
Former US President Donald Trump is having serious problems, including criminal charges since the FBI found out from Mar-a-Largo in January around 700 pages of classified materials. Some of them...
Indian President Droupadi Murmu on Friday said the liberation of Bangladesh and its rise and prosperity is an inspiring story for the world. "India is proud to be a friend...
The death toll from the trawler capsize in the Karnaphuli river of Chattogram rose to six, with the recovery of another body from coastal area of Sitakunda upazila in the...
Following the reversal suffered due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the postal service improved significantly in its quality across the world in 2021. It is a general finding of...
Remittance inflow has hit a seven-month low. The country received $1.54 billion in September, which is a 25 per cent drop from that of the preceding month. This is a...
At present, Bangladesh's development efforts are zeroed in on joining the club of middle income economies by 2026 and the developed ones by 2041. For obvious reasons, huge investments would...
Britain's corporation tax will rise to 25 per cent, said Prime Minister Liz Truss after she sacked finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng and U-turned on a programme of tax cuts on...
Another 310 patients were hospitalised with Dengue in 24 hours till Friday morning, as numbers revealed by the health authorities showed the case fatality rate so far this year far...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday accused BNP of doing evil politics capitalising on the sufferings of people caused due to the world crisis. "Without understanding the reality...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said their party will not stop at any obstacle in their ongoing movement to 'restore' democracy and people's voting rights by...
The Supreme Court administration has taken initiatives with the intention of increasing the use of 'Court Technology' to establish a sustainable judicial system by ensuring the free flow of judicial...
Injuries-intentional or unintentional-when serious in nature are life-altering conditions. Great improvements have been made in high-income countries in reducing morbidity and mortality following severe injuries arising from violence, traffic accidents,...
মার্কিন পররাষ্ট্র দপ্তরের মুখপাত্র নেড প্রাইস বলেছেন, মানবাধিকার লঙ্ঘনে দায়ী হিসেবে বিশ্বাসযোগ্য তথ্য থাকায় ২০১৮ সালেই বাংলাদেশের র্যাপিড অ্যাকশন ব্যাটালিয়ন (র্যাব)-কে সহায়তা করা বন্ধ করেছে যুক্তরাষ্ট্র। মঙ্গলবার এক ব্রিফিংয়ে সাংবাদিকদের...
Netflix Inc said on Thursday it will introduce a streaming plan with advertising for roughly $7 per month in November, a move to attract new subscribers after the company lost...
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky made a new plea to Western partners to help beef up Ukraine's air defences on Thursday and called for further steps to isolate Russia. In comments...
A rare and dramatic protest in Beijing that criticised Chinese President Xi Jinping has sparked an online hunt for the mystery protester's identity, as well as praise for the action....
Former UK foreign minister Jeremy Hunt has been appointed finance minister, Prime Minister Liz Truss's office said on Friday, following Kwasi Kwarteng's resignation from the post, according to Reuters.
Communities in three Australian states have been ordered to evacuate as torrential rain brings major flooding. According to BBC, parts of the country have received up to four times their...
Saudi Arabia pushed other OPEC+ nations into an output cut last week, the White House claimed on Thursday, part of an escalating war of words between the two countries. "More...
At least 17 houses, several bigha of farmlands and a half-kilometre road were swallowed up by the Dharla River due to severe erosion in Kurigram for the past one week....
যুক্তরাজ্যের অর্থমন্ত্রীর পদ থেকে কোয়াসি কোয়াটেংকে বরখাস্ত করেছেন সে দেশের প্রধানমন্ত্রী লিজ ট্রাস। বিবিসির বরাত দিয়ে বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম এক প্রতিবেদনে জানায়, বাড়তে থাকা থাকা রাজনৈতিক চাপ এবং বাজার নিয়ে...
Disgruntled drivers of battery-powered rickshaws vandalised five traffic police boxes in Dhaka's Mirpur and Pallabi, leaving a law enforcer injured. The heated demonstrations were triggered by the seizure of two...
British Prime Minister Liz Truss will fire her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng and scrap parts of their economic package, the Times newspaper reported on Friday, in a bid to survive...
Three people, including Baroiarhat municipality (under Chattogram district's Mirsarai upazila) mayor, sustained bullet injuries in an attack by miscreants near the Muhuri Project area earlier on Friday. The injured are...
Rights-based civil society representatives on Friday demanded urgent actions to safeguard women and girls who are at health and livelihood risk to the adverse effects of climate change. They made...
The bodies of three missing sailors have been found two days after a collision between cargo vessels near the Chattogram port. The authorities retrieved the bodies from the port's anchorage...
Bangladesh has recorded 346 cases of Covid-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,031,797. The death toll from the disease rose by four to 29,393 over...
Repairs to the bridge between the annexed Crimean peninsula and southern Russia, which was damaged in an explosion last Saturday, are to be finished by July 2023. The information was...
‘সরকারের উপর’ নিষেধাজ্ঞা চেয়ে বিএনপি মহাসচিব মির্জা ফখরুল ইসলাম আলমগীরের দেওয়া বক্তব্যকে ‘রাষ্ট্রদ্রোহিতা’ হিসেবে দেখছেন পররাষ্ট্র প্রতিমন্ত্রী শাহরিয়ার আলম। বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম এক প্রতিবেদনে জানায়, বৃহস্পতিবার যুক্তরাষ্ট্র সফর শেষে মন্ত্রণালয়ের...
Customs authorities at Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport have seized 150,0000 memory cards smuggled into the country under the guise of a fabric shipment. Four employees of Flyboard Express Courier...
Elon Musk said on Friday SpaceX cannot "indefinitely" fund the Starlink internet service in Ukraine and send it several thousand more terminals after a report suggested that his rocket company...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has given the approval for a concert by eminent singer-songwriter Kabir Suman to be staged at the Institution of Engineers after denying permission to hold...
Pakistan beat New Zealand by five wickets in the final of a tri-series in Christchurch on Friday, giving themselves a timely boost ahead of the upcoming Twenty20 World Cup in...
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