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The United Nations has not yet received even half of the funds it initially sought to respond to crisis Bangladesh is now facing with the newly arrived Rohingyas from Myanmar’s...
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has called upon the world community to create a safe zone in Myanmar’s Rakhine state under the supervision of the United Nations. He also...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith will inaugurate 'World Investor Week 2017' formally in a programme Monday at 3.00 pm at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in Dhaka. The week will be observed...
With government’s various initiatives, including introduction of open market sale (OMS) in the city and district, the price of different varieties of rice has marked downward trend in the south-west...
A bus accident has left at least 7 people dead and 15 others injured, some of them critically, in Chandina Upazila in Comilla district. Police and fireservice men said the...
Business Initiative Leading Development (BUILD), a public-private policy reforms body said it is high time for the key stakeholders to comprehend the complex and multifaceted nature of the development challenge...
A gas cylinder explosion at a multi-storey building in Chittagong has left half a dozen injured. Police, firefighters and locals said at least six people, including two members of a...
NCC Bank arranged a Business Meeting for Managers & Deputy Managers of Dhaka-based branches at the Bank's Head Office recently. Md. Nurun Newaz Salim, Chairman of the Bank inaugurated the...
US President Donald Trump on Saturday placed blame squarely on Puerto Ricans for the slow recovery from Hurricane Maria after critics and the mayor of San Juan complained his administration’s...
United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock and UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake arrive here tomorrow on a three-day visit to Bangladesh. "The purpose of...
For a 7-year old, Mohammad Sohail is unusually quiet. He’s startled by the smallest sounds and rarely smiles. He clutches the hand of 18-year-old Jahangir Khan as the two make...
French soldiers shot and a killed a man on Sunday after he stabbed to death two women at Marseille's main train station, the French interior ministry said, in what police...
The Canadian authorities have updated the travel advisory for its citizens on travelling to Bangladesh, asking pregnant women to not do so. " Pregnant women and those considering becoming pregnant...
Dhaka Regency Hotel & Resort celebrated ‘World Tourism Day’ recently with the theme-Tourism For All. This year’s theme helped promoting the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, through...
BANGKOK: Thailand's foreign ministry, in a rare statement on an ongoing crisis in neighbouring Myanmar's Rakhine state, said late on Saturday that it was "closely following the situation" and...
Holy Ashura, commemorating the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA), was observed across the country on Sunday with due religious fervour and solemnity. On this day in Hijri 61, Hazrat...
Lebanon's Hezbollah accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government on Sunday of pushing the region to war in Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, and said nowhere in Israel would...
New Delhi (India), Sept 30 : India has said that it has no plans to mediate between Myanmar and Bangladesh to solve the Rohingya refugee crisis, said a report by...
S.I. Newhouse, the Condé Nast chairman who presided over the magazine world’s glossiest publications and most talked-about editors for more than 40 years, died Sunday. He was 89. Newhouse’s death...
Two years since opening of Kolkata-Agartala route through Bangladesh, very little traffic has come this way and none of prophecies made by Indian and Bangladesh have been fulfilled. Since...
A helicopter has crash-landed in Pabna's Chatmohar with four people on board, and all of them are safe, police say, according to bdnews24.com. One of the three passengers received 'minor...
Egyptian militant group Hasm claimed responsibility on Sunday for an explosion at Myanmar’s embassy in Cairo, saying it was in retaliation for that country’s military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims. Egypt's...
Rahul Gandhi may take over as the Congress president shortly after Diwali, Rajasthan leader Sachin Pilot said on Sunday, stressing that the time had come for the party vice president...
Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump received an uncomfortable call Saturday night. The cold open for the season 43 premiere of Saturday Night Live mocked Trump’s negative response to San Juan Mayor...
China stocks were firm at the weekend, buoyed by hopes of further reforms to the mainland’s state-owned enterprises and by consumer firms as investors bet shoppers would spend big during...
A student of North South University is thought to have committed suicide at his apartment in Basundhara residential area on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Sajal Mahmud, 24, son...
Hong Kong stocks ended higher at the weekend, but the benchmark index posted its first monthly loss this year, an indication the market’s upward momentum may be slowing amid worries...
At least 15 fishermen were fined and sentenced for several jail terms on Sunday by Mobile courts of Ramgati upazila of Lakshmipur and Patharghata upazila of Barguna for catching Hilsa...
The BNP has accused the government of not taking a tough line on the Rohingya issue. The government should use ‘tougher language’ while addressing the crisis, said Mirza Abbas, a...
Anti-Brexit campaigners and activists protesting the government’s austerity policies are holding rallies in Manchester city centre to coincide with the start of the Conservative Party conference. Protesters have vowed to...
Myanmar has reopened schools for ethnic Rakhine children in townships hit hard by recent communal violence declaring “stability” has returned, state- backed media said today, but thousands of Rohingya Muslims...
Catalonia's disputed independence referendum rapidly descended into chaos on Sunday as Spanish national police raided polling stations and clashed with voters. Barcelona's deputy mayor said police fired rubber bullets at...
Saudi Arabia’s economy has slipped back into recession as the oil sector stagnates and the government sector is hit by austerity policies designed to curb a state budget deficit caused...
Bangladesh is to move to a camp at least 15,000 Rohingya refugees who have settled in a restive hill district near the border with Myanmar, a local official said Sunday....
The detectives of Department of Narcotics Control detained two Rohingya refugees travelling on a bus while carrying 5,000 yaba pills. The two were found on the bus from Teknaf, after...
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali Sunday said Bangladesh wants peaceful resolve of the Rohingya issue soon in line with the five-point proposal made by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in...
RAJSHAHI, Oct 1: State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam has asked the farmers to raise sugarcane cultivation with optimum uses of the existing natural resources for survival of...
South Africa captain Faf du Plessis and Temba Bavuma both made half centuries as they increased their lead over Bangladesh to 379 runs at lunch on the fourth day of...
Terrorist groups like Islamic State could gain a foothold in South-East Asia if violence continues against ethnic minorities in Myanmar, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has warned. It is believed...
A lightning strike during storm has killed three fishermen at Baghmara Upazila of Rajshahi district on Sunday afternoon. The dead are Abul Hossain, 40, Jalal Uddin, 38, and Khorshed Alam,...
A local Awami League leader was slaughtered in Mendipur area of Bhairab upazila of Kishoreganj on Saturday midnight. Some miscreants attacked Manik Mia, AL general secretary of ward no 8...
UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock and UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake will be on mission in Bangladesh from Monday over the deteriorating Rohingya crisis. On arrival, they will go to...
The smartphone race among the industry’s most prominent companies is set to get even more intense, as Samsung seems set on releasing its foldable Galaxy X smartphone sooner than expected....
India has opened two immigration check posts along the borders with Myanmar and Bangladesh, official notifications said. News agency PTI reported that separate gazette notifications issued by the...
Catalonia’s independence referendum has begun in chaotic fashion, with clashes taking place as police attempt to prevent the vote from taking place, according to BBC. The Spanish government has pledged...
OJ Simpson, the former American football star and actor, has been released on parole after nine years in a Nevada jail. He had been serving time for armed robbery,...
Japan's Nikkei share average ended almost flat at the weekend but posted its biggest monthly gain this year as investors rebuilt positions they had scaled back earlier this month on...
The UK has quadrupled its export finance support for Bangladesh from £150mn to £625mn in a bid to boost the country’s railway industry. A trade delegation of nine UK rail...
An Air France flight from Paris to Los Angeles was forced to make a sudden diversion when it lost part of an engine over the Atlantic. One of...
The sudden arrival of half a million Rohingya Muslims has upended life in this humble village, which is now overshadowed by one of the largest concentrations of refugees in the...
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