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Aamir Khan, the Bollywood superstar with a conscience, says his next movie about a small town teenage girl who uses the Internet to become a singing sensation will be much...
There is a term called "Natural Resource Curse". This is when a country, endowed with natural resources, specifically fossil fuel, becomes dependent on those resources without a fallback plan and...
Sometimes innovation in the economy doesn't get acknowledged until the stamp of powers that be are obtained. Such is the case of a newer version of the lunch kulis, an...
The export-import activities between Bangladesh and India through Benapole land port resumed on Tuesday, after a six-day vacation. Trucks carrying imported goods started entering Benapole from India from 8:00am. Aminul...
The food ministry, under fire for costlier rice, has piled blame on the commerce ministry, accusing it of wasting time before deciding to cut back on import duty. The commerce...
Stephen Paddock appeared to be settling into a quiet life a few years ago when the 64-year-old apartment manager and avid gambler bought a home in a quiet Nevada retirement...
At least three troops of India's Border Security Force (BSF) were wounded Tuesday in a predawn militant attack on their camp in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said. The gunmen believed...
A snake charmer was hacked to death by miscreants at a Bedey Palli in Porabari area on Monday night. Police said miscreants attacked Sohel Hossain, son of Nur Hossain,...
THIS refers to your article "Industry 4.0 in the service of Senior Citizen" (FE- Sept 28). We see seniors every day whose health is being impacted by such issues as...
NO one can deny that high rate of bank interest is hurting our economy and discouraging new investment. Commercial banks are also charging fees on other accounts that impede industrial...
PEOPLE who live abroad as migrant workers are also citizens of our country and have all the rights as citizens, including voting rights. The government in the past made efforts...
The country did meet measurable target-oriented Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) before the 2015 deadline. This earned Bangladesh UN accolades as a model worth emulating by many a developing country. Perhaps...
The Oxford City Council removed the honour, the Freedom of Oxford, awarded to Aung San Suu Kyi, because of her response to the Rohingya crisis. The de facto leader of...
Newspaper reports say that the country's readymade garments export has lately experienced a fall in value addition. Given the importance of value addition, this no doubt is demoralising, especially in...
Indisputably, the people's right to safe food is trampled under the foot of a section of profit-hungry and neglectful producers and sellers of food items in this part of the...
Two minor siblings drowned in a canal at Chhoto Khurma village in Bishwanath upazila of Sylhet district on Monday. The deceased were identified as Rohan Ahmed, 12 and Redwan Ahmed,...
The United States expelled 15 Cuban diplomats from the embassy in Washington in an escalating response to mysterious illnesses afflicting American embassy personnel in Havana. The expelled embassy personnel must...
A new survey report of the Department of Environment (DoE) reveals that, putting the public health at risk, noise pollution, known in other words as sound pollution, has turned acute...
Sixty per cent of the Rohingyas who have fled Myanmar to Bangladesh since August 25 are children under 18, including hundreds without family members, says Save the Children. The organisation...
With the rapid process of globalisation and advancement in technology the world has become a smaller but highly competitive marketplace. The global market today is no longer monopolised by the...
Honeypreet Insan, the 'adopted daughter' of India's self-declared guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, was arrested on Tuesday after being hunted for over a month by the police. The 36-year-old was...
Earlier in June this year when India and Pakistan were admitted as full members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) at the Astana, (Kazakhstan) summit, many eyebrows were raised if...
A court in Habiganj sentenced on Tuesday four persons to death in the murder of a man 16 years ago. Habiganj's additional district and sessions judge convicted nine people in...
Indian liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya was arrested in London for the second time this year, in a case of money laundering. Mallya was out on bail after his arrest in...
As Las Vegas began the process of recovering from one of the deadliest mass shootings in US history, the motive for such an attack looms large. The authorities have yet...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained seven Rohingya people, including two minor children, from Hijaldi border area in Kolaroa upazila of Satkhira on Tuesday morning. The detainees are Md...
Australian investigators have delivered their final report into missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370, saying it is "almost inconceivable" the aircraft has not been found, reports BBC. MH370 disappeared in 2014...
Stocks ended higher on Tuesday, with key index of the major bourse crossing the 6,100-mark again, as optimistic investors were active on sector-wise stocks. Dealers said the market finished higher...
Supreme Court Bar Association President Advocate Zainul Abedin says Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha has been forced to take leave from the court. The pro-BNP advocate made the comments during...
A Burmese beauty queen has claimed she was stripped of her pageant title over a video she made on the ongoing violence in Rakhine state of Myanmar. Shwe Eain Si...
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been given a 20-day prison sentence for repeatedly violating a ban on organising public meetings. His supporters say he was detained to stop him...
Two Ugandan members of parliament say their residences have been attacked by people who lobbed explosive devices. The lawmakers, Allan Ssewanyana and Robert Kyagulanyi, said Tuesday they believe their lives...
A minor girl has been abducted allegedly by his cousin from Katabar area in Dhamrai upazila of Dhaka district. Rezaul Haque, officer-in-charge of Dhamrai Police Station, said Amena Akhter, 4,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed profound shock at the tragic loss of more than 50 lives in a mindless and deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas city of United...
Oil prices fell on Tuesday, declining for a second day and sapping more strength from a third-quarter rally, amid signs that a global glut in crude may not be clearing...
Justice Md Abdul Wahhab Miah is heading the Appellate Division as it resumes its session in the absence of Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, who went on a one-month leave...
A man was killed and five others injured as a bus hit an auto-rickshaw in the municipality area in Sadar upazila of Madaripur district on Tuesday morning. The accident took place...
An Australian teenager has died after being crushed by weightlifting equipment at a gym. Ben Shaw, 15, was attempting to bench press almost 100kg (220 lb) when the accident happened...
Barcelona's La Liga game against Las Palmas was played behind closed doors as a protest after their request for it to be postponed in light of Catalonia's independence referendum was...
Two people were killed in a road accident in front of Sadar upazila office in the district town on Monday morning. Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately,...
Aamra Networks will make its debut trading today (Monday) on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange. Aamra Networks, which received regulatory approval for going public from the Bangladesh...
A 64-year-old man armed with more than 10 rifles rained down gunfire on a Las Vegas country music festival on Sunday, slaughtering at least 58 people in the largest mass...
Soldiers shot dead at least eight people and wounded others in Cameroon’s restless English-speaking regions on Sunday during protests by activists calling for its independence from the majority Francophone nation,...
Two women accused of fatally poisoning the estranged half brother of North Korea's ruler pleaded not guilty as their trial began Monday in Malaysia's High Court, nearly eight months after...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina beamed with exaltation and cheer at the first installation of a span on the country's biggest infrastructure Padma Bridge project. "Yes, we've proved, we can ......
A Bangladesh government delegation is meeting with representatives of the Myanmar government in Dhaka to discuss the Rohingya crisis amid mounting international pressure. The meeting began at the state guest...
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi's emissary has flown in Dhaka amid pressure over the situation in Rakhine State that has pushed over half a million Rohingyas into Bangladesh. A...
Anti-British movement leader Jasim Uddin Mondal passed away at a city hospital on Monday morning due to old age complications. The veteran communist leader breathed his last around 6:00am at...
More than twenty people have been killed and at least 100 injured in a mass shooting at a Las Vegas concert. A gunman opened fire from the 32nd floor of...
A 17-year-old boy died hours after being released from police custody in Nalitabari upazila early Monday. The victim has been identified as Biswajit Chandra Dey, son of Bidhan Chandra Dey...
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