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A bus carrying passengers returning from a Hindu festival to the Nepali capital of Kathmandu skidded off the main highway and plunged into a river on Saturday, killing at least...
Spain has sacked the chief of Catalonia’s regional police force, Josep Lluis Trapero, as the government in Madrid takes control of the autonomous region to block its push for independence,...
The first charges have been filed in the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller into alleged Russia interference in the 2016 US election, media reports say. It was not...
World University of Bangladesh (WUB) has organised a farewell ceremony at the auditorium of the university on Saturday. Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Abdul Mannan Choudhury, World University of Bangladesh, chaired...
Across Libya’s capital residents have started drilling through pavements to access wells in a desperate search for water after the taps ran dry in a new low for living conditions....
At least five students have been injured as activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) clashed over taking drugs in Dhaka city on Friday. Witnesses said the clashing groups – one...
A Japanese teenager is suing the government of Osaka, saying her public high school repeatedly forced her to dye her naturally-brown hair black or be banned from attending school, local...
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Saturday the threat of nuclear missile attack by North Korea is accelerating. In remarks in Seoul with South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo at...
Barcelona says playmaker Andres Iniesta will be out of action in Saturday's Spanish league match against Athletic Bilbao due to a thigh injury. Thomas Vermaelen also won't be available,...
A 10-day long training titled 'Credit Risk Management' (16th Batch) was held at National Bank Training Institute recently. A number of credit officers from different branches took part in the...
At least seven pilgrims, all women, were killed and six others sustained injuries when the autorickshaw in which they were travelling collided head-on with a sand-laden truck in the southern...
BRAC Bank Limited has posted a strong growth of 50 per cent in profit after tax year on year in the nine-month period ending September 30. "The bank reported a...
Amazon.com Inc, Microsoft Corp, Alphabet Corp’s Google, and Intel Corp are all putting their chips on the cloud computing business, and it is booming. All four companies posted stellar quarterly...
SYLHET, OCT 26: Speakers at an event in the city today demanded strengthening women's participation in politics at all levels and increasing the number of female candidates in the upcoming...
KURIGRAM, Oct 26: Hundreds of farmers of the district have brought a vast tract of land under cultivation of winter vegetables this season with assistance of local agriculture offices. According...
BOGRA, Oct 26: More than 500 village women of the district have become self-reliant through sewing clothes after taking short-term training. Sources said the poor and unemployed women of the...
RANGPUR, Oct 26: Farmers of different areas in the district are getting financially benefited through farming of red spinach (Lalshak) in recent years. Due to easy cultivation process, low production...
Open heart surgery appears to be safer in the afternoon because of the body's internal clock, scientists have said. The body clock - or circadian rhythm - is the reason...
Tamabil Land Port (TLP) along Gowainghat border area in Sylhet has started its journey as a full-fledged land port. Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith and Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan...
The government has taken a number of initiatives to ensure wellbeing of the Bangladeshi expatriates who are greatly contributing to the country’s economy. The projects that the government is planning...
South Africa beat visiting Bangladesh by 20 runs in the 1st T20I of the two-match series at Mangaung Oval in Bloemfontein on Thursday night. Chasing a tough-total of 196 runs,...
Big groups are now investing in the apparel accessories segment mainly to meet their own requirements and grab the growing demand both in local and international markets, industry insiders said....
Leaders of the country's apex trade body put forward on Thursday a set of proposals for consideration in the new income tax law, including reducing the taxmen's discretionary power and...
Australian Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce and four other politicians were wrongly elected because they held dual citizenship, a top court has ruled. The High Court of Australia decision means three...
The Planning Commis-sion (PC) is likely to endorse feasibility study for construction of two more metro rails in the capital at a cost of Tk 463.70 million, officials said on...
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke on Thursday with Myanmar's army chief and expressed concern over reported atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, the US State Department said...
Two people were killed and eight others injured when a truck hit a human hauler on Chittagong-Teknaf Highway near Rabeta Hospital in Ramu upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Friday. One...
President Bashar al-Assad and his family have no role in the future of Syria, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday ahead of peace talks aiming at a...
Two US yachtswomen and their two dogs have been rescued by the US Navy after spending nearly five months adrift in the Pacific Ocean, officials say. Jennifer Appel and Tasha...
Backers and opponents of independence in Catalonia have clashed in parliament over the way forward as the Spanish government is set to reassert control. The debate began after Catalan President...
Wall Street may love the shares of Silicon Valley electric carmaker Tesla Inc, but Americans love big, fuel-thirsty trucks like Ford Motor Co’s bestselling F-Series pickups and are paying ever...
The Dhaka University (DU) is observing the World Occupational Therapy Day, in association with Bangladesh Occupational Therapy Association (BOTA), and the occupational therapy department of Centre for Rehabilitation of the...
Police arrested five suspected robbers while they were fleeing after committing robbery at Noapara village in Kasba municipality area of Brahmanbaria district on Friday. Local people said a gang of...
The Rohingya people, who have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar since August 25, have outnumbered the local people in Ukhia and Teknaf upazilas of Cox’s Bazar district. According to the...
The govt has changed its earlier decision to introduce an elevated expressway over Dhaka-Chittagong highway, as it now considers launching a high speed train service between the capital and the...
Last year, Stranger Things was a slow-burning success. It arrived on Netflix in July with relatively little fanfare, but had become one of the year’s most-talked about TV shows. It...
Myanmar authorities have agreed to allow the United Nations to resume distribution of food in northern Rakhine state which was suspended for two months, the World Food programme (WFP) said...
Thirty one missions out of 57 Bangladesh missions abroad have failed to achieve their respective export target in the first quarter (July-September of the current fiscal year (FY18), reports a...
Financial deepening and financial inclusion are two interrelated terms having different meanings. Financial deepening refers to the increased ratio of broad money to the total gross domestic product (GDP) of...
Catalonia’s parliament declared independence from Spain on Friday in defiance of the Madrid government. The declaration was made ahead of an expected vote in Spain senate which will see Madrid...
The upper house of Spain’s parliament authorised central government to rule Catalonia directly from Madrid. Spain's senate came up with the decision on Friday minutes after the restive region declared...
An accused in a murder case was reportedly killed in a gunfight between his cohorts and police at Joynabaz in Kumarkhali upazila of Kushita district on early Friday. The deceased,...
Unidentified miscreants damaged five idols of Hindu gods and goddesses at Sarbojonin Kali Temple at Baishdhar East Para in Netrokona sadar upazila early Thursday. Chandan Sarker, a maintenance committee member...
Former US President George HW Bush, the latest ‘inductee’ in groping scandal, apologised through a spokesman on Wednesday for what an actress described as a sexual assault. However, Bush Sr...
Much-awaited Tamabil Land Port along Gowainghat border area in Sylhet district will be inaugurated on Friday aiming to expand business activities with Bhutan and Indian states Tripura, Nagaland, Assam. Shipping...
Shares in Asia posted strong gains early Friday, tracking the upbeat session overnight on Wall Street. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.0 per cent to 21,957.44 as the US dollar...
Twitter is banning two of Russia's biggest media outlets from buying advertising amid fears they attempted to interfere with the 2016 US election. The ban on advertising from Russia Today...
An integral part of learning, research in educational institutions are generally neglected and at times ignored in many parts of the world. If central underpinnings of research activities are any...
The era of rice predominantly influencing Bangladeshi diet seems to have gone. Urbanisation, sustained income growth and decline in poverty "are continuing to change consumption patterns and heighten demand for...
Dhaka's ranking as the seventh worst megacity for women adds to the list of infamies already plaguing it. The Thomson Reuters Foundation's recent perception poll on women in megacities brings...
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