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South Korean guards fired up to 20 warning shots at North Korean troops searching for a soldier who had defected on Thursday, Yonhap news agency said, after officials in the...
The wreck of Australia's first naval submarine has been found after a 103-year search. The HMAS AE-1 was the first Allied submarine lost in World War I, vanishing off Rabaul,...
A spokesman for North Korea’s foreign ministry said on Thursday Pyongyang is not linked to any cyber attacks, the North’s first response since the United States publicly blamed it for...
Myanmar army said that it had appointed a senior officer to investigate whether any members of the security forces were involved in the killing of 10 people whose bodies were...
Stocks on both bourses witnessed positive trend in early hour of trading Thursday amid slow movement as investors mostly followed cautious stance ahead of year-closing. Following the previous day’s correction,...
British Prime Minister Theresa May forced her most senior minister, Damian Green, to resign on Wednesday after an internal investigation found. He had made misleading comments about pornography found on...
Singing in groups can help people recover from mental illness, making them feel valued and increasing their confidence, according to research. A University of East Anglia study of singers involved...
Defying government rules, excavation of ponds in agricultural land is going on in various places of Rajshahi district.More than 3,000 ponds have been excavated so far in Rajshahi only in...
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has said the Rangpur City Corporation election is going on calmly and fairly. Ershad came up the remark after casting his ballot at the Tozammel...
Apple has finally responded to reports claiming that the company is throttling the performance on older models of iPhones. The company confirmed that it was altering the performance of selected...
Fishermen are getting a good catch of baghair, a tasty species of fish, in Bogra's Dhunat upazila part of the Jamuna River this year. Being happy with this, they do...
BNP has said the ruling party cadres are forcing out its polling agents from a number of centers soon after the start of voting. BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul...
A Philippine ferry carrying 251 people capsized on Thursday off an island south of Manila, the capital, a coast guard spokesman said, amid a storm bringing heavy downpours. Three people...
The 3.1 million students sitting for their Primary Education Completion and Ebtedayee exams this year will receive their results on Dec 30.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina set aside time on that...
Rejecting BNP's allegation over the Rangpur City Corporation election, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda on Thursday said voters did not come up with any allegation. Expressing satisfaction over...
Chief of the BNP Khaleda Zia has alleged that at least 750 pro-democracy activists have become victims of forced disappearances over the last 10 years. According to her, the forced...
US space agency NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) announced Wednesday that it has selected two finalist concepts for a robotic mission planned to launch in the mid-2020 to explore...
A Bangladeshi citizen was shot dead by Indian border guards BSF (Border Security Force) at Shimultoli border in Patnitala upazila of Naogaon early Thursday. The deceased was identified as Ershad...
Jatiya Party's candidate Mostafizar Rahman Mostafa has been unofficially declared winner in the mayoral polls of Rangpur City Coporation bagging 160,489 votes. His nearest rival, ruling Awami League's Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu,...
Awami League General Secretary and Road and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said the Rangpur City Corporation (RpCC) polls is a message for Bangladesh National Party (BNP). Quader said it at...
A senior minister has said that no one will be allowed to run real estate and housing business in the country except the members of Real Estate and Housing Association...
Growing or dealing in potato in recent years has become really difficult. In fact, the problem surfaces when the harvest of new potatoes starts every year. The consumers, naturally, prefer...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought cooperation from all, irrespective of religions, casts and creeds, in making Bangladesh a more prosperous country. "This is our country, this country is for...
In a major move, MA Awal has been appointed as the chairman of listed company AB Bank Limited following the sudden departure of earlier chairman M Wahidul Haque. Feroz Ahmed...
The central bank has asked the all the banks and NBFIs to connect their established Point of Sale (POS) with the National Payment Switch of Bangladesh (NPSB) by December 2018....
The Finance Minister has said that the directors of The Farmers Bank Limited have destroyed the bank by way of looting. According to Mr AMA Muhith, "It's the directors who...
Oil prices were stable on Thursday after posting strong gains late in the previous session on the back of a drop in US crude inventories. Another rise in US oil...
Uganda's parliament has approved a constitutional change that will allow the current president to run for an unprecedented sixth term in office. After three days of debate, MPs voted overwhelmingly...
The country's overseas job seekers are heavily dependent on middlemen in every stage of their migration process in the absence of easy access to the services rendered by the government...
Australian shares were slightly lower on Thursday, pulling back from the previous session’s near 10-year high after a lacklustre Wall Street response to the much-awaited US tax cut approval. However,...
New Zealand shares edged lower on Thursday after data showed that economic growth cooled. The benchmark S&P/NZX 50 index pulled back from a record high hit during the previous session,...
A former high-ranking official from Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto’s party was arrested as part of a corruption investigation in the northern state of Chihuahua, the state’s governor said. Alejandro...
British Prime Minister Theresa May will visit China around the end of January to promote her vision of a “global Britain” whose economy is strongly placed to succeed after Brexit,...
The Bank of Japan kept monetary policy steady on Thursday despite growing signs of strength in the economy, signalling that it was in no rush to edge away from crisis-mode...
US President Donald Trump threatened to cut off financial aid to countries that vote in favour of a draft United Nations resolution calling for the United States to withdraw its...
US stocks ended slightly lower on Wednesday after both houses of Congress approved a long-anticipated tax overhaul. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 28.1 points, or 0.11 per cent, to...
India will provide Myanmar with $25 million for development projects including prefabricated houses in troubled Rakhine state to enable the return of Rohingya Muslims who have fled the area. India’s...
The central bank has increased the allocation of Export Development Fund (EDF) scheme by 20 per cent or US$500 million aiming to facilitate the country's exporters for boosting their business...
At least two people have been killed as a fierce fire broke out at a popular nightclub on the outskirts of Kenya's lakeside city of Kisumu, police say. The number...
Venezuela’s pro-government legislative superbody ruled that parties who boycotted this month’s local elections had lost legitimacy, potentially eliminating the main opposition groups from the 2018 presidential race. The decree by...
A court in Beijing on Thursday handed down sentences of up to 15 years in jail to 50 people deported from Kenya for telecoms fraud, including 22 from self-ruled Taiwan,...
Around 95 per cent of the businesses having VAT registration were still conducting import-export and other activities with their old identification numbers (BINs) the validity of which is set to...
Asian markets offered a muted reaction on Thursday to the passage of US tax cuts as benefits to company bottom lines were already baked into stock prices, while bonds were...
The upcoming year of 2018 will be the year when Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning will hit the market, a global technology giant predicted recently. At the same time, the...
When Martin Luther posted 95 theses on Wittenberg's Castle Church door on October 31, 1517, that is, on the eve of All Saints' Day (or All Hallows' Day), few would...
The government has initiated two separate sales and purchase agreements (SPAs) with Trafigura and the joint venture (JV) of Gunvor and Exmar to purchase 200 mmcfd each of imported re-gasified...
Bangladesh Bank (BB), the regulatory body of the country's banking sector, has recently taken drastic actions against two banks over allegations of serious violation of banking norms in running their...
Voting in the Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) elections began on Thursday morning amid a four-tier security measure having the presence of over 5,500 security personnel. The balloting in 193 polling...
THAT the government plans to conduct the Unesco-prescribed Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the world's biggest mangrove forest and its adjoining areas augurs well for the ecological health of the...
Since last year's Brexit referendum, the United Kingdom (UK) has been likened to a suicide who jumps off a 100-storey building and, as he falls past the 50th floor, shouts...
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