Petrol prices in Sudan fell on Tuesday from 700 Sudanese pounds to 522 pounds ($0.9235) per litre, the country's energy ministry said in a statement following its monthly pricing review....
A strong election night for allies of President Jair Bolsonaro have given his party the most seats in both chambers of Congress, highlighting the enduring strength of his conservative movement...
Bangladesh Coast Guard claimed to have detained 33 people, including 29 Rohingya refugees, in the early hours of Tuesday after their trawler sank in the Bay of Bengal off Teknaf...
A two-day Faculty Orientation and Development Workshop for Summer and Fall 2022 was held at North South University (NSU) recently. A good number of full-time and adjunct faculty members joined...
Lawyers for Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, facing a US lawsuit over the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, told a court on Monday the crown prince's...
Nuclear-armed North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years on Tuesday, prompting a warning for residents to take cover and a temporary suspension...
Chinese refiners are likely to boost refined oil products exports in the last two months of 2022 and into early 2023 after receiving the biggest allocation from Beijing this year,...
Providing packed food items as tiffin for students during their school time could be the best solution to proper safety of food or hygienic food in terms of meeting their...
A clash between inmates armed with guns and knives inside the Latacunga prison in central Ecuador on Monday left at least 15 people dead and 20 injured, authorities said. Officials...
England all-rounder Moeen Ali said he has closed the door on a return to test cricket after having an "honest" conversation with coach Brendon McCullum. Moeen made his test debut...
Former US president Donald Trump sued CNN for defamation on Monday, seeking $475 million in punitive damages and claiming the network had carried out a "campaign of libel and slander"...
The government declares communication systems of 29 vital state agencies as 'Critical Information Infrastruc-ture (CII)' with punitive provision for unauthorized access. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) division published Sunday a...
Ukrainian forces have broken through Russia's defences in the south of the country while expanding their rapid offensive in the east, seizing back more territory in areas annexed by Moscow...
A two-day international summit will begin in Dhaka on November 23 to promote women-led businesses and create a global matchmaking platform. The International Women Entrepreneurs' Summit (IWES) 2022, to be...
Seoul has recently decided to significantly increase its development loans for Dhaka to $3 billion from $700 million for a period of five years, Korean envoy Lee Jang Keun said....
The light engineering sector may get a boost from a newly-framed policy with a time-bound action plan to address the challenges that are hindering its growth. Sources said an 11-point...
Capital dredging of Karnaphuli River, including the port channel, will end this month as 99 per cent dredging work was completed last month, sources said. Officials at Chittagong Port Authority...
The recent fall in the sale of national savings certificates is an outcome of various steps taken to limit government borrowing through those instruments, Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Abdur Rouf...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has flown back to Bangladesh after her 18-day official visit to the United Kingdom and the United States. She joined the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has moved to bring foreign nationals working for various government bodies without work permits under the tax net, aiming to enhance income-tax collection. The...
After hitting a reported new high in August, inflation eased in September for what Planning Minister MA Mannan said wider social safety-net programmes taken by the government for the commoners....
The submission of returns by individual taxpayers has gone up threefold this year, as the revenue board made submission of tax-return receipts mandatory while seeking services from various entities. Tax...
After creating a huge controversy by announcing she has a two-year old son with actor Shakib Khan, actress Bubly on Monday revealed her wedding date with the actor. She posted...
India's pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah has been ruled out of the Twenty20 World Cup due to a back injury, the country's cricket board (BCCI) announced on Monday. Bumrah, who played...
The government has declared 29 organisations Critical Information Infrastructure under the Digital Security Act for the safety of data. The law has provisions to penalise illegal access to computers, digital...
Elon Musk, the richest man on earth, founder of SpaceX with its idea of reusable rocket and maker of electric cars from his company, Tesla inc., has now embarked on...
Lots of students and even their guardians are not aware of a vital fact: the private universities are also under the jurisdiction of the powerful University Grants Commission (UGC). Formed...
That hotel business at the top tiers, euphemistically called hospitality industry has started bouncing back over the past six months is good news for this particular type of service sector...
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has projected that the world economy would grow 2.5 per cent in 2022. UNCAD expected that growth to decline further to...
With so many distressing news reports of mismanagement in the banking sector in Bangladesh people have a conception that banks are all full of deceits. And telling anything good about...
As modern day warfares go, the Ukraine war is unique. It has defied the Aristotelian template of linear narrative so far, with many twists and turns. The latest is the...
Indonesia on Monday set up an independent team to investigate a stampede at a soccer stadium that killed 125 people, including 32 children, as the country's human rights commission questioned...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has selected an Australian architecture company, Populus Architecture, for the construction of Sheikh Hasina International Cricket Stadium in the city's Purbachal. The board approved the...
Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader expressed his doubt whether the next general election will be free and fair and inclusive. "The overall situation of the country is fragile with unstable...
দেশে সেপ্টেম্বর মাসে ৪০৭টি সড়ক দুর্ঘটনায় ৪৭৬ জনের মৃত্যু হয়েছে, প্রতিদিন গড়ে মৃত্যু হয়েছে ১৫ জনের। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম-এর। সোমবার এই তথ্য জানিয়েছে বেসরকারি সংস্থা রোড সেইফটি ফাউন্ডেশন। সড়ক...
দ্রব্যমূল্যের ‘পাগলাঘোড়া’ সদ্য সমাপ্ত সেপ্টেম্বর মাসে ‘বাগে এসেছে’ মন্তব্য করে পরিকল্পনামন্ত্রী এম এ মান্নান বলেছেন, দুয়েক দিনের মধ্যে মূল্যস্ফীতির সবশেষ প্রতিবেদন প্রকাশ করা হবে। সরকার এর আগের মাস অগাস্টেরও মূল্যস্ফীতির...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ICT Advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy has accused former military ruler Ziaur Rahman of executing thousands of members of Bangladesh's armed forces, who were freedom fighters, through...
Government securities will start trial trading in the secondary market from next week to turn the capital market vibrant, said Bangladesh Bank Governor Abdur Rouf Talukder on Monday. He said...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said their planned 'simultaneous’ movement' with different political parties to oust the current government will be carried out under the leadership...
Iran's supreme leader on Monday gave his full backing to security forces confronting protests ignited by the death of Mahsa Amini in custody, comments that could herald a harsher crackdown...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday left London on her way back home from Washington DC in the USA. A VVIP chartered flight carrying the premier and her entourage members...
মারামারির ঘটনায় ইডেন মহিলা কলেজ ছাত্রলীগ থেকে বহিষ্কার হওয়া নয় নেত্রী ছয় সপ্তাহের আগাম জামিন পেয়েছেন। সোমবার জামিন আবেদনের শুনানি শেষে বিচারপতি মোস্তফা জামান ইসলাম ও বিচারপতি মো. খায়রুল আলমের...
The OPEC+ group of oil producers is discussing output cuts of more than 1 million barrels per day (bpd), OPEC sources said, and voluntary cuts by individual members could come...
জঙ্গিরা যত কৌশলই নিক না কেন, র্যাবের সঙ্গে পারবে না বলে দাবি করেছেন এই বাহিনীর নতুন মহাপরিচালক এম খুরশীদ হোসেন। তিনি বলেছেন, “আমি আশ্বাস দিতে চাই, জঙ্গিরা যত বেশি স্মার্ট...
Somalia's government said one of the co-founders of Islamist militant group al Shabaab had been killed in a joint operation with international partners over the weekend, while the insurgents claimed...
American media personality Kim Kardashian has agreed to settle charges of unlawfully touting crypto security and to pay $1.26 million in penalties, disgorgement and interest, the US Securities and Exchange...
Football fans "died in the arms" of players during a crush at Indonesia's Kanjuruhan stadium, the home team coach has said, as the number of children killed in the tragedy...
The UK government has U-turned on plans to scrap the 45p rate of income tax for higher earners, reports BBC. Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng told the BBC the proposals, announced just...
German-based Karl Kübel Foundation for Child has honoured Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus with Karl Kübel Prize. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the foundation last September 30,...
Three more dengue patients died in 24 hours till Monday morning, raising this year's death toll from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 61. During this period, 525 more patients...
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