Afghan officials say a roadside bomb has killed seven civilians in the southern Helmand province, reports Fox News.Haji Salam Khan, a provincial council member, said Sunday's explosion killed seven civilians...
More than 700 employees including 200 scientists have left the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) since President Donald Trump took office. Besides, Trump appointed Scott Pruitt as Administrator of EPA, who...
Gold prices in Bangladesh have gone up for the second time in two weeks. The price of 11.664 grams (1 Bhori) of 22 carat gold has increased by Tk 1,400....
Online shopping outlet ‘10takabuy.com’ is set to be launched soon in Bangladesh. The China-Bangladesh joint venture will be open for both local and international customers. An agreement was signed between...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has mentioned that the ruling party Awami League is fearful of the freedom fighters (FFs). She also thinks that the AL and its allies are out...
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim on Sunday said BNP will have to accept results of the next national election. "BNP tried to resist the January 5 election which...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has announced compensation for the families of 10 victims died during a stampede at qulkhwani of former Chittagong Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury. The Prime Minister made...
Researchers from Zhejiang University in China have developed a safe, flexible, fast-charging aluminum-graphene battery that can be charged in seconds, instead of hours. The team, led by professor Gao Chao,...
The Bangladesh-Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BMCCI) has got new leadership for the 2018-2019 term. The BMCCI held the 16th annual general meeting (AGM) in Dhaka on Saturday, said...
At least 37 people died in a fire at a shopping mall in Philippines on Sunday, local city government officials said on Sunday. The vice mayor of the southern city...
Police have arrested over the death of an infant during a mugging in Dhaka last week. Early on the morning of Dec 18, a couple travelling on a rickshaw with...
The government will be very tough to put an end to drug smuggling through differen points of the country, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan. "Steps are being taken against those...
Hamidur Rashid, a Bangladeshi national and economist at the United Nations’ Department of Economic and Social Affairs, was charged with visa fraud in foreign labor contracting in June. However, the...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two alleged members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh in the city on Saturday night. Acting on tip-off, a team of Rab-11...
The indefinite hunger strike enforced by the assistant teachers of the primary schools demanding their salary hike, entered second day on Sunday. Over 1,000 assistant teachers of several primary schools...
Thousands of growers in Natore are delighted over the good market price of newly harvested T-Aman paddy. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office said farmers failed to get satisfactory...
Canada's special envoy on the Rohingya crisis Bob Rae has said it would be 'unconscionable' for the member states of the UN to sanction a repatriation that was forced, or...
Dr M Momtazul Islam, professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering department has been appointed as the dean of Applied Sciences and Technology Faculty of Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia. Momtazul...
10 people have been killed and 17 others wounded when two speeding buses coming from the rear side collided and crashed into a van on a highway in central Pakistan,...
Bangladesh Assocation of Publicly Listed Companies (BAPLC) has urged the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) to digitise the annual reports of the listed companies. " We have made this...
The brains of adolescents react more responsively to receiving rewards, according to a study that shows it can make learning easier. "The adolescent brain is very sensitive to feedback. That...
Manchester United fell further behind Manchester City at the top of the Premier League when defender Harry Maguire scored in the final minute of added time to earn Leicester City...
Saima Wazed Hossain, Chairperson of Bangladesh National Advisory Committee for Autism and Neuro developmental Disorders, stressed on the need for constituting a regulatory organisation comprising physiotherapists and other professionals concerned...
The government has taken a move to add stairs to the Moghbazar-Mouchak-Malibagh flyover to help traffic police monitor vehicular movement, officials said. The Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) has taken...
Muggers are on the prowl again -this time with renewed vengeance. The other day a woman on a rickshaw in the city coming from Shariatpur for treatment of her son...
Ferdous Begum was cleaning her child after he had defecated in the open, using leaves she collected from a nearby tree at Bangladesh's Teknaf Nature Park. The settlement is packed...
Curriculum theorist Aoki's planned curriculum reminds us of Leonard Cohen's (1992) song, The Anthem: There is a crack in everything. That's how the light comes in. The meaning of pedagogy...
Eating more vegetables make you more attractive, veg can change your skin pigment and improve circulation causing a "natural glow". It can help you lose weight. Most vegetables are very...
All-rounder Nasir Hossain hit a magnificent unbeaten double hundred as Rangpur Division dominated the third day over Barisal Division in the four-day 19th National Cricket League (NCL) held on Friday...
Oil prices on Friday dipped away from some of their highest levels since 2015, weighed down by rising US output and the expected January re-opening of the Forties pipeline in...
Japan's liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) imports from the United States are expected to double in 2017 to a record and account for around half of its total purchases, government and...
Standard Chartered Bank, Bangladesh and Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) recently jointly organised a seminar on "Trade Finance Processes for Investors" for the companies based in the Chittagong Export...
A sprawling Southern California wildfire that has been burning through rugged, drought-parched coastal terrain since Dec. 4 has become the largest on record in the state, state fire officials said....
Oil prices rose in light volumes on Friday, steadying near their highest levels since 2015 on pledges from major oil producers that any exit from crude output cuts would be...
Israeli troops shot dead at least two Palestinians and wounded about 60 with live fire on Friday, the Health Ministry in Gaza said, as protests intensified against Washington’s recognition of...
Bangladesh stands on the 89th position in the recently published Global Food Security Index-2017, which is the lowest among the South-Asian countries. The general secretary of Bangladesh Food Security Network,...
Dhaka has decided to formally request Delhi to review the anti-dumping duty it imposed on the import of Bangladeshi jute goods, sources said. To this end, Bangladesh Tariff Commission (BTC)...
The central bank should take stricter stance while dealing with ongoing controversies over some "non-performing" commercial banks, a former Bangladesh Bank governor suggests. In the wake of such developments, especially...
The home minister has credited the law enforcers for the some of the missing people resurfacing recently despite no visible police action to find them. Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said to...
A tropical storm in the southern Philippines triggered mudslides and flash floods that killed more than 100 people, while dozens are missing, police and disaster officials said on Saturday. The...
At least 32 people have been killed and 7 others injured after a bus carrying passengers veered off a bridge and plunged into a river in Sawai Madhopur district of...
Police filed a case against 22 people for preventing police from performing their duty after death of an accused in police firing during their bid to arrest at Choripara Majdodi...
Police have found and arrested missing Kalyan Party Secretary General MM Aminur Rahman, nearly four months after his missing. The leader of the BNP-allied party went missing on the night...
The quality of Buriganga water has improved slightly following the relocation of tanneries to Savar from the capital's Hazaribagh area. The improvement of water quality of this vital river is...
Bangladesh has offered to buy an additional 0.20 million (200,000) tonnes of rice from Myanmar under a government to government agreement before the end of December, said associate secretary Lu...
A baby girl has been attacked in her room by a raccoon in the US city of Philadelphia, her family says. Four-month-old Jourini Black suffered claw marks to the face...
China is set to promote cooperation with Gambia in agricultural technology, fishery processing, infrastructure development and tourism to achieve win-win results, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday. Chinese Premier...
Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Gen (retd) Dr Vijay Kumar Singh said India is steadfast in its commitment to regional cooperation, connectivity and economic integration. India believes that...
The Election Working Group has praised the Election Commission for holding a peaceful and fair Rangpur City Corporation election. “The election was held without violence or irregularities,” EWG President Abdul...
BNP on Saturday has said the recent promotion of 193 deputy secretaries and its equivalent officials to joint secretaries is confusing. BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said...
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