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A passenger train derailed in the southern Indian state of Telangana Saturday, railway officials said. There has been no report of any casualty in the incident so far, but the...
Women’s lengthy involvement in unpaid care work compared to that of men gets in the way of their economic empowerment, a study has found. Women in Bangladesh engage in 6.3...
Bruce McCandless, who was captured in a stunning photograph in 1984 as he made the first untethered flight in space, has died aged 80, Nasa said. With a jetpack, McCandless...
India's credibility on the world stage has been to a large extent because of the secularism practised in the country. India has not only cashed on this support of the...
China's Belt and Road (B&R) initiative is an ambitious undertaking that has the potential to reshape the global economy and transform world trade. Many governments, multinational development organisations and international...
The Eleventh Ministerial Conference (MC11) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Buenos Aires, Argentina (December 10-13, 2017) ended in a chaos. It failed to produce even the most customary...
People who take a certain water pill prescribed to control fluid retention and treat high blood pressure may be more likely to get skin cancer than other individuals, a Danish...
Rohingya children who have fled Myanmar to Bangladesh are suffering from acute malnutrition and anaemia, UNICEF said. According to three health and nutrition surveys conducted between October 22 and November...
A South Sudanese rebel group accused government troops of attacking their base only a day after the parties signed a ceasefire in a four-year war that has killed tens of...
Hackers tried to steal 55 million roubles ($940,000) from Russian state bank Globex using the SWIFT international payments messaging system, the bank said on Thursday, the latest in a string...
The prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, has urged the UN Security Council (UNSC) to investigate the 'apparent' crimes being committed against humanity in the Rakhine state of Myanmar, impose appropriate...
Two class action lawsuits have been launched against Apple in the US following the tech giant's admission that it slows down older models of the iPhone as they age. Apple...
French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed European reforms will play a big role in talks between German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives to form a government with the center-left Social Democrats (SPD),...
Major indexes of US stocks dipped on Friday in low trading volume before the holiday weekend as several blue-chip stocks slipped, including Nike. Nike Inc shares fell 2.3 per cent...
Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq has said the killing fields and graves of freedom fighters will get an identical design. He said this while addressing the centennial anniversary...
The commerce ministry has suggested creating a low-cost fund of Tk 48 billion for the jute sector instead of the proposed Tk 100 billion fund. The ministry put forward the...
Stocks witnessed yet another bearish week, extending the losing streak for the four weeks in a row that ended Thursday, as ongoing pessimism kept investors mostly inactive. Dealers said the...
Iran's moral police have arrested 230 people at two winter solstice celebration parties in Tehran. The shortest day of the year is traditionally celebrated in Iran, where it is known...
A former US marine has been arrested by the FBI on suspicion of planning a terror attack in the popular tourist attraction San Francisco on Christmas day. Everitt Aaron Jameson,...
The government plans to establish three new commercial wings in China, Turkey and South Africa amid the lure of trade bonanza in the world's emerging economic hubs. Commerce Ministry officials...
"It has gone far beyond a mere humanitarian crisis. This, the deliberate killing of a specific ethnic group, is genocide''. - The Sydney Morning Herald (Editorial, December 18, 2017) The...
The UN Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Friday for its Nov. 29 intercontinental ballistic missile test, seeking to limit its access to refined petroleum products...
Two suspected robbers have been killed in an alleged gunfight with police at Zafarganj union in Comilla’s Debidwar upazila early Saturday. Mohammad Shah Abid Hossain, Superintendent of Comilla Police said...
The United States has never been an honest peace broker in the Middle East. Since the Balfour declaration, the United States became an ardent sympathiser of the Jews clamouring for...
The body of a transport trader, who went missing three days ago, was found at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) morgue on Saturday. Family members identified the victim, Foyez...
The Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) has rightly identified in a study that a number of factors like opaqueness in the process of selecting projects, unusual cost and corruption...
Despite the fact that they are residents of capital Dhaka - a distinctive position, the city's underprivileged children are in bad shape. Finding many of such children in the country's...
Dhaka's communication and commuting landscape is undergoing a radical change, largely imperceptibly though. With app-based ride services like Uber, Pathao and others being increasingly availed by the city residents, the...
The government plans to create a hub for generating 9,000 megawatts of electricity at Payra area of Patuakhali to uplift the southwestern region. State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul...
Chinese brands continue to grow in Bangladesh which is now capturing 29 per cent of the market, according to a new report by research firm Counterpoint. The increasing mood has...
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has said the Rangpur city polls result showed that people want a change in power. "The Rangpur election has demonstrated that people, and the time...
A Dhaka court has granted a four-day remand to interrogate Bangladesh Kalyan Party secretary general MM Aminur Rahman in a violence case. Aminur went missing from Nayapaltan area of Dhaka...
Gaibandha police have arrested three people in a case over the alleged gang rape of a girl in Sadullahpur upazila of the district. The victim has completed her JSC examination...
Abul Kasem Khan and Kamrul Islam have been re-elected President and Senior Vice President of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) respectively for the year 2018. Riyadh Hossain has...
A study by a research team from the University of Pennsylvania found that eating fish at least once a week can raise children’s IQ by nearly five points in the...
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has said that there must be sufficient information behind the allegations about foreign assets of Khaleda Zia's family. "It can be proved that Khaleda...
Indian Union Minister Prakash Javadekar was captured in camera using a landline-receiver in order to avoid the harmful radiation released by mobile phones, outside the Parliament, on Friday. In order...
Abheesh P Dominic, a man of India's Kerala, broke open over a hundred coconuts with his bare hand to set a Guinness World Record. Dominic smashed the record in the...
Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has said that there is no need to form the school committee of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL). He said this while speaking at a...
Maize cultivation is increasing every year in all five districts under Rangpur agriculture region, as the char people are earning huge profits to cut poverty and lead better life. The...
The ball starts rolling for extending the validity period of CNG-run auto-rickshaws by another six months with their lifespan expiring by the end of the current month. Bangladesh Road Transport...
A new industry has emerged in China, helping husbands and wives to separate their unfaithful spouses from their lovers. It is called mistress dispelling, in which clients often pay tens...
Ten students of Biological Science Faculty of Jahangirnagar University received stipend from Nagao Natural Environmental Foundation (NEF), a non-governmental organisation of Japan. Professor Abdul Jabbar Haolader, Dean of Biological Science...
Sonali Bank Limited has opened an ATM booth at Akhaura Land port in Brahmanbaria. Advocate Anisul Huq, Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary affairs, inaugurated the booth on Friday. The...
The United States' threats against Pakistan with respect to the latter's alleged support for militant groups can harm the existing coordination and cooperation between the two countries, said Director General...
More than 70 firefighters were tackling a blaze at London Zoo on Saturday after a fierce fire broke out at the attraction’s cafe and shop, the fire brigade said. There...
Improvement in institutional governance and regulatory management in Bangladesh's financial sector is sine qua non for higher economic growth with all in society taken on board. Such a piece of...
‘Selfitis’ is a genuine mental condition and people who feel compelled to continually post pictures of themselves on social media may need help, psychologists have warned. The term was first...
Turkey’s parliament has approved the country’s 2018 budget, which includes increased spending on defence and projects a rise in the fiscal deficit to 65.9 billion lira ($17.28 billion). The budget,...
Myanmar has detained at least 29 journalists in the 20 months since Suu Kyi came to power. Most have since been released on bail, the frequency of arrests - along...
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