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Serena Williams will return to tennis in Abu Dhabi next week, almost four months after giving birth. The American, 36, will play world number seven Jelena Ostapenko in an exhibition...
Chairman of the newly formed political alliance, Juktafront, AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Monday urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to meet the demand of primary school teachers. He also urged the...
Asian shares were lower in quiet trading Monday in the few Asian markets open during the Christmas holiday. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index was down less than 0.1 per cent at...
Atiqul Islam has started campaign to contest the forthcoming by-polls to the mayoral post of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) as an Awami League candidate. The former president of Bangladesh...
Japan’s Nikkei share edged lower on Monday, weighed by losses on Wall Street, although movement was confined to a narrow range with many other major markets shut for Christmas. The...
A young man was found dead at Nabagram in Sreepur upazila of Magura on Monday morning. The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. Rezaul Islam, the Officer-in-Charge...
Some 200 skiers were stranded in chair lifts after a gondola broke down at a resort in the French Alps, said French authorities. Rescue operations were under way and no...
Christians are celebrating Christmas Day in Bangladesh today (Monday) with festivity commemorating the birthday of Jesus Christ as elsewhere in the world. On the occasion, they have illuminated churches, set...
The construction of Bay Container Terminal (BCT) of Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) is getting delayed due to slow pace in the project's land acquisition process following filing of cases by...
China called on Monday for all countries to make constructive efforts to ease tension after North Korea said the latest UN sanctions against it are an act of war and...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has sought information on the banking transactions of former BASIC Bank Chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bachchu and his family members. To this connection, the anti-graft watchdog...
Dubai airline Emirates will stop flying to Tunisia, it said on Sunday, after the North African country said it had banned flights from the United Emirates carrier. The announcement came...
The king of Spain has issued a renewed call for unity amid the ongoing fallout from Catalonia's outlawed independence referendum. In his Christmas message, Felipe VI urged the people of...
REMITTANCE inflows are an important pillar for our national economy. In 2016 alone migrant workers of Bangladesh remitted nearly $15 billion, and based on a five-year average, it accounted for...
Bangladesh Breast Cancer Conference was held for the second time at Dhaka, on December 01, 2017. The conference provided the cutting-edge insights into the areas of prevention, optimal diagnosis, treatment,...
GOVERNMENT primary school teachers have been on a hunger strike since Saturday. Several teachers have already fallen ill due to the cold and lack of food. They are urging the...
Fire fighters have managed to douse off fire at a textile mill in the city's Shyampur area. Duty Officer at the Fire Service and Civil Defence central control room, Mahmudul...
The real world is a far less tidy place than described in the welfare optimising model. An alternative to this messy world eschews its main features and embodies those that...
Pope Francis has used his traditional Christmas Day message on Monday to call for "peace for Jerusalem" and dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians. Acknowledging "growing tensions" between them, he urged...
Reputedly where the sun would never set, the British Empire bequeathed one of the bloodiest legacies across a wider geographical compass than any other empires, bequeathing a sad inheritance: the...
Easy and cheaper access to justice is a fundamental human right. But unfortunately, an alarmingly huge backlog of unsettled cases jamming lower courts in Bangladesh indicates that justice is denied...
In 2017, Donald Trump dominated the year by using US clout to change many aspects of global relations, and not for the better. What a year it has been! As...
Energy is a sine qua non for the all-round development of a nation - industrially and agriculturally. But the global poor countries are lagging behind in this sector compared to...
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim on Monday said Awami League will gladly accept people's verdict in the next general election. He came up with the remarks while addressing...
BNP on Monday hit out at Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid for his remark that not only officials, but also the ministers are 'thieves'. The party said the minister’s comments...
Flood-hit poor and marginal farmers have got a cash incentive of more than Tk 153 million under an agricultural rehabilitation programme in four districts of Sylhet division. A total of...
The Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) has suspended three teachers for alleged plagiarism in their research. The university took the decision at its 58th syndicate meeting on Sunday...
Two Turkish soldiers have been killed in Turkey’s southeastern province of Hakkari in an attack by Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) militants, the military said on Monday. Another soldier was wounded...
Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) has created employment scopes of more than 12,572 people in various trades in Rajshahi. The industrial estate created jobs in various fields like...
PRAN Drinking Water has taken an initiative to stand with the Bangladesh ODI captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza’s Narail Express Foundation. PRAN Beverage Limited signed an agreement on Sunday with the...
Authorities in Vietnam prepared to move a million people from low-lying areas along the south coast on Monday as a typhoon approached after it battered the Philippines with floods and...
Dr Reba Mondal, Professor of Department of Law, has been appointed as the dean of Law and Shariah faculty of Islamic University in Kushtia. She was replaced by Professor Dr...
The state-run television channel Bangladesh Television (BTV) is celebrating its 53rd founding anniversary on Monday with a range of special programmes. BTV started its journey on December 25 in 1964...
South Sudan’s army clashed with rebels in an oil-producing region, both sides claimed, shattering a ceasefire hours after it came into effect. Both sides accused the other of starting the...
Pop star Taylor Swift's fans revealed on 'The Swift Life' app that the singer helped her fan purchase a house after she was homeless for eight months during her pregnancy....
Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pardoned former authoritarian leader Alberto Fujimori late on Sunday, triggering Christmas Eve street clashes as protesters denounced the decision as part of a crude political...
China stocks slipped on Monday, with the start-up board ChiNext posting its biggest decline in three weeks as expectations of tighter monetary polices stirred worries about market liquidity. At the...
A federal judge ruled that the US military must provide legal counsel to an American citizen who was picked up months ago on the Syrian battlefield and accused of fighting...
Chad’s President Idriss Deby has appointed Abdoulaye Sabre Fadoul as minister of finance and also named new economy, foreign affairs, security and justice ministers, a presidential decree showed. Fadoul has...
SYLHET, Dec 24: Farmers in different areas of Sylhet division are busy with preparing Boro seedbeds with an expectation to get a bumper production of the crop this season, officials...
JHENIDAH, Dec 24: Line sowing of different winter crops including mustard, pulses, maize, wheat and vegetable is getting popular in the district for the advantage of easy weeding out, less...
NATORE, Dec 24: Thousands of growers in the district are delighted over the good market price of newly harvested T-Aman paddy. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office said farmers...
Iraq reached an initial deal with China's state-run Zhenhua Oil to develop the southern portion of the East Baghdad oil field, the oil ministry spokesman said on Sunday. Iraq is...
The Election Commission has begun to work on the delimitation process of the parliamentary constituencies where there are issues or dispute over the boundary of the parliamentary seats. The EC...
Rescuers in the Philippines searched on Sunday for survivors of a storm that triggered floods and landslides and killed about 200 people, left scores missing and thousands homeless, most of...
The Bangladesh Competition Commission (BCC) has taken a move to apprise relevant state-run agencies of the Competition Act and commission in order to make the law and entity effective, officials...
The former National Security Agency contractor who exposed US government surveillance programmes by disclosing classified material in 2013 has a new job: app developer. Edward Snowden in a video message...
South Bangla Agriculture & Commerce (SBAC) Bank Limited has opened its 63rd branch at Jibannagar in Chuadanga. Md Mokhlesur Rahman, one of the Directors of the bank inaugurated the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reached Chittagong on Sunday morning to join the annual President’s Parade of Bangladesh Navy in the port city. The premier is scheduled to visit the...
Lafarge Surma Cement has agreed to acquire Holcim Bangladesh for Tk 5.05 billion, a price set by the Bangladesh Bank. The Dhaka Stock Exchange or DSE said on Sunday that...
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