Tunisian authorities arrested on Friday another 150 people including local opposition leaders over unrest against price and tax rises. Protests, some violent, flared across Tunisia on Monday, when one protester...
With the support of diverse wearable devices, from watches to apparel, measuring vital health signals has become easily accessible. Not so long ago, a visit to the chamber of a...
Nepal has joined hands with China to offer internet services to its citizens, officials said on Friday, ending India’s decades-long monopoly of the Himalayan nation’s cyber connectivity network. For years,...
Total net official development assistance to Bangladesh is worth around US$2.57 billion (in 2015). The largest bilateral donor is Japan who provided $8.93 million as grant aid, $34.4 million as...
Bangladesh has a long way to go to attain a satisfactory smartphone user base, observed mobile phone distributors. According to them, only 30 per cent of the people in the...
Malaysian police have arrested another Bangladeshi human trafficker on Friday morning. The trafficker, identified as “Abang Bangla” (43), was arrested on the day’s early hours along with Malaysian during a...
Ride hailing applications in Saudi Arabia are recruiting female drivers, after the Kingdom announced plans to lift the ban on women driving by June 2018. The San Francisco-based transportation network...
Turkey has issued travel alert on its citizens planning to travel in the United States after similar warning given by US to Americans. The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement...
US President Donald Trump used vulgar terms expressed frustration behind closed doors with people coming to the US from. "Why do we want all these people from 'shithole countries' coming...
Nine more Ebtedayee madrasah teachers fell sick on the fourth day of their ongoing indefinite hunger strike in front of the Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka on Friday. Bangladesh Independent...
Four Indian top court judges has exposed a rift with country's Chief Justice over administrative issues including distribution of cases to judges and judicial appointments. Justices Kurian Joseph, Jasti Chelameswar,...
Saudi women will be allowed for the first time to enter a sports stadium to watch a soccer match between two local teams. They will be segregated from the male-only...
Three separate road crashes have killed four people across the country. In Faridpur, two people were killed and many others were injured when a car hit a road divider on...
Coalition talks between the Christian Democrats (CDU) and Social Democrats (SPD) have achieved a breakthrough, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) reported Friday. Progress has been made in such key issues as migration,...
Dealmaking activity drove sharp share price moves in Europe on Friday with British engineer GKN leaping after it rejected an unsolicited offer from rival Melrose. A gain of around 20...
Russia’s standards agency Rosstandart said on Friday it had been informed about the recall of 16,515 Mitsubishi cars sold in Russia between April 2013 and February 2016. The Japanese automaker...
Asian share markets rose on Friday, after Wall Street’s latest record close. Japan’s Nikkei 225 recovered from early losses to gain 0.1 per cent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng and the...
Two devotees died on Thursday night while coming to join at the 53rd Biswa Ijtema held on the bank of Turag River in Tongi, Gazipur. The deceased were identified as...
A 14-year-old girl who was the angelic face of an iconic Australian bushmen's hat brand was remembered by hundreds of mourners Friday after her suicide focused attention on the dangers...
French police have recovered all the jewels that a gang of thieves attempted to snatch from a store in the upscale Paris Ritz hotel, a source close to the investigation...
China reprimanded three top tech firms on Friday over poor privacy protections, as tech companies face an increasing backlash from consumers and authorities over excessive data collection practices. Alibaba Group...
French police have recovered all the jewels that a gang of thieves attempted to snatch from a store in the upscale Paris Ritz hotel, a source close to the investigation...
Astronomers have caught a massive black hole letting out a "double burp" after binging on hot gas. When cosmic gas comes near one of these sinkholes, it gets sucked it...
New Zealand shares rose slightly on Friday, but the market is set to log its worst week in over a year. The benchmark S&P/NZX 50 index rose as much as...
More than 15,000 Cameroonian refugees have fled to Nigeria amid a crackdown on Anglophone separatists, the United Nations (UN) refugee agency and Nigerian government officials said on Thursday. The once-fringe...
Iron ore miners pushed Australian shares higher on Friday with heavyweights BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto scaling multi-year peaks as storm disruptions in the nation’s northwest drove up prices of...
Dhaka Bank and IPDC Finance Limited signed an agreement with Bangladesh Bank (BB) under 'Refinance Scheme for Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project' in the city on Wednesday. General Manager,...
BOGRA, Jan 10: A good number of houses as well as cropland are seriously threatened due to frequent unabated sand lifting from Nagor River under Bogra district. Sources said, people...
Financial.org, a UK company that describes itself as an education business and sponsors a Formula One team, is managing hundreds of thousands of dollars for Asian investors even though it...
After leaving Barcelona in order to escape the shadow of Lionel Messi, Neymar has beaten the Argentine in one measure - being rated the world's highest value player, reports http://www.dailymail.co.uk....
India cleared a proposal on Wednesday to allow foreign investors to own up to a 49 per cent stake in state-run carrier Air India, paving the way for global airlines...
BRAC University Global Model United Nations (BUGMUN) 2017, hosted by the International Association for Business Communicators (IBAC) of BRAC University and powered by Bashundhara Paper Mills Limited, took place from...
Once upon a time, there lived a young boy, who used to watch his sister play the keyboard every day. At the age of five, he himself started composing little...
Two senior administration officials said on Wednesday that Trump’s top advisers were recommending that he not ramose sanctions on Iran that were lifted under the agreement between Iran, the United...
On the chilly morning of January 5, Friday, the newly recruited general members of the Junior Chamber International (JCI) Dhaka West started their fun-filled journey with the organisation through the...
Mexico will leave the NAFTA negotiating table if US President Donald Trump decides to trigger a 6-month process to withdraw from the trade pact, three Mexican sources with knowledge of...
At least three alleged robbers were killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion in Sukhpara Char area under Swarankhola range of the Sundarbans on Thursday morning. The Identities of...
The ‘Tareque Masud Film Week’ will begin on Friday at European Standard School in the city’s Dhanmondi.The opening ceremony of the festival will be held at 5 pm, said organisers....
The Bangladeshi man accused of attempting a suicide bombing in a busy New York City commuter hub in the name of Islamic State in December was indicted on US terrorism...
The country's tea production declined by about 10 million kilograms in 2017 due to unfavourable weather conditions, tea sector insiders have said. Bangladesh produced 85 million kgs of tea in...
Myanmar’s military said its soldiers had murdered 10 captured Muslim “terrorists” during insurgent attacks at the beginning of September, after Buddhist villagers had forced the captured men into a grave...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s name has appeared in an Ecuadorean government database of citizen identification numbers, fuelling speculation that he may have received citizenship from the Andean country. Assange has...
Policymakers and stakeholders have recommended the government to frame clear guidelines for the private sector for implementation the new VAT law, after identifying the main reasons as to why the...
The High Court has stayed the telecom regulator’s notice for auctioning 4G spectrum and inviting applications for licences. Thursday’s order by Justice Naima Haider and Justice Zafar Ahmed came after...
Real Madrid reached the Copa del Rey quarter-finals, but drew the second leg against lower league opposition for the second round in a row. Real won the first leg 3-0...
Bangladesh stock markets fell in early trade on Thursday extending the losing streak for six consecutive sessions, as investors remained on the selling spree. The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and...
Written tests to recruit officers for eight banks will be held on Friday as scheduled, as a chamber judge has frozen the previous High Court order. On Sunday, the High...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday sought utmost assistance for the country’s development programmes to change the socioeconomic status of the mass people. The Prime Minister said this while speaking...
At least nine people died allegedly after consuming food at a relative's home in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, officials said onThursday. The incident took place at village Thal...
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Bangladesh Bank decision to remove the Managing Director of NRBC Bank Dewan Mujibur Rahman from his post for violating the rules. A five-member...
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