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The Prime Minister’s Office termed the reports over a foiled plot to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as baseless, misleading and intentional. The PMO statement, issued on Sunday, referred...
Germans began voting in a national election on Sunday that is likely to see Chancellor Angela Merkel win a historic fourth term and a far-right party enter parliament for...
Registration and all other fees and stamp duty for land transfer by landowners to developers of private economic zones have all been waived as a stimulus. Government authorities believe the...
A 'lost' portrait by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens has been rediscovered after almost 400 years. The 17th century Flemish artist's "head study" of the Duke of Buckingham was...
Kylie Jenner, the youngest member of the celebrity Kardashian family, was reported on Friday to be pregnant. Celebrity news website TMZ, People magazine and Buzzfeed all quoted sources as...
A magnitude 6.2 aftershock that shook Mexico on Saturday was blamed for five deaths, spreading fear among anxious residents reeling from a string of natural disasters and interrupting the search...
A man was allegedly hacked to death by his drug addicted younger brother in Dakkhin Nayamati area in Narayanganj Sadar upazila on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as...
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has abandoned plans to create a new class of company stock. A group of investors had sued over the proposal, which would have allowed...
Police during a drive arrested two men along with five grams of heroin from Porabhita area in Goalundo upazila of Rajbari district on Saturday night. Acting on a tip-off,...
The Taliban has shut down dozens of clinics in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan in the past few days, officials said, amid demands for special treatment for its fighters...
Bangladesh does not have any plan to give any ‘refugee status’ to Rohingays, who entered Bangladesh fleeing persecution in Myanmar. Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu came up with the...
Saudi Arabia is celebrating the 87th anniversary of its foundation this weekend with a big programme of concerts and performances, including a pageant operetta on Saturday evening which allowed women...
Dhaka bourse Sunday displayed flat movement amid mixed performance showed by the major sectors. The market started the session positively and continued the trend for half an hour and the...
Talks to update the North American Free Trade Agreement intensified on Saturday although US negotiators looked set to once again withhold proposals for one of the Trump administration’s most challenging...
Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes brought its Bangladesh round to a successful close during Seedstars Dhaka. The event took place Saturday...
Police recovered hanging bodies of two young men, including an Ansar member from separate places in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka city, on Sunday. An Ansar man was...
Doctors treating some of the 429,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar in recent weeks have seen dozens of women with injuries consistent with violent sexual attacks,...
The International Chamber of Commerce Bangladesh (ICCB) called on Australian entrepreneurs to set up an export processing zone in Bangladesh and take the advantage of the facilities extended by the...
The news that only 6.0 per cent private cars take 76 per cent space of city streets should leave commuters of the capital city shell-shocked. Blaming rickshaws or other vehicles...
Researchers indicate that with the British gone, nobody will be there to defend UK English for competition, not only from American English but also from other languages, reports PTI. ...
MORE than four hundred thousand Rohingyas have fled their homes in Myanmar and took refuge in Bangladesh. They fled their homes because they were being brutally murdered and their homesteads...
"A disproportionate number of the great business fortunes built up during the inflationary years arose from ownership of operations that combined intangibles of lasting value with relatively minor requirements for...
A state minister and several secretary-level government officials are among 50 people penalised for driving on the wrong lane in Dhaka city, police say. An officer at Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s...
A fire has spread through a tin-roofed building in Dhaka’s Badda, leaving a woman dead and her two children wounded. The incident occurred early Sunday in the Boithakhali area,...
A landslide in southwest China has killed three people and left another three missing, authorities said Sunday. Ten people were at the spot when the landslide struck a highway in...
Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives beat their rivals on Sunday to win her a fourth term in an election that will also bring a far-right party into Germany's parliament for the...
Charles Bradley, a soul singer who found fame in his later years, has died from cancer aged 68. The former James Brown impersonator, nicknamed "the screaming eagle of soul"...
Six people have been injured in Stratford, east London, in a reported acid attack. Police were called to Stratford Centre, opposite Westfield, just before 20:00 BST, following an "altercation"...
An affiliate of Amazon.com Inc has agreed to buy a 1.79 billion-rupee ($27.6 million) stake in Indian retailer Shoppers Stop Ltd, the Indian company said in a filing. Amazon.com...
The Chittagong seaport users Saturday urged the authorities concerned to improve further the efficiency in container handling as well as documentation process and inspection of goods for reducing the costs....
With the opening of Airbus's first plane completion centre for large aircraft in China on September 20, the heated competition with its arch American rival Boeing has reached new height....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday expressed profound shock at the death of three Bangladeshi peacekeepers who were killed in an IED blast in Mali. In a message of...
A craze of launching online news portals seems to have engulfed the country. While browsing the internet one finds various news portals with awkward names. These portals carry fake and...
YABA is known as the madness drug. It is a dangerous and highly addictive stimulant that takes a serious toll on human body. Most of the world's yaba is manufactured...
The news is that the man who lived the life of an emperor in luxurious castles and resorts modelled after the grandiose of Mughal courts now earns Tk 20 a...
That the patients' per capita out-of-pocket (OPP) health expenditure, as revealed by a recent government report, went up 4.0 per cent between 2012 and 2015 is nothing surprising. It,...
"…Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that...
Researchers from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have developed a new tool to assess an individual’s level of wisdom, reports hindustantimes.com citing Indo Asian News Service....
There are two sides to an elevation of the economy beyond the rhetoric. Foreign indirect investment (FII) is the most harped on because it looks good, brings in further foreign...
Three Bangladeshi peacekeepers embraced martyrdom and another four got injured in an IED (improvised explosive device) blast in Mali on Sunday, an ISPR release said. The three martyrs are Sergeant...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader Sunday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s five-point proposal at the 72nd UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York contains the ways to resolve...
The first batch of UNICEF emergency supplies for Rohingya refugee children arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Sunday. The cargo plane from Copenhagen with 100 tonnes...
The National Peace Council (NPC) of Sri Lanka has appealed to the Sri Lankan government to lift the ban on the entry of Rohingya refugees, taking into account the “intensity...
A carpenter died from electrocution in Nabinagar area of Sherpur on Sunday morning. Witnesses said Jahurul Islam, 34, son of Abdul Halim Mistri, a resident of Nabinagar Gairal Bari...
Miscreants set fire on seven establishments of Hindu community in Madhukhali upazila of Faridpur on early Saturday. Police sources said the miscreants set fire on, cowshed, porch of the...
Turkey plans to shelter some Rohingyas who fled the persecution in Rakhine state of Myanmar in the southeastern districts of Bangladesh. To this end, the European country will build...
A carpenter died after being electrocuted in Nabinagar area of Sherpur district town on Sunday morning. The deceased, identified as Jahurul Islam (34), son of Abdul Halim Mistri, a...
An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale jolted four km Northwest of Kadingilan, the Philippines at 4:47pm EST (20:47 GMT) on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said. The...
Ratings agency Moody’s downgraded the UK's credit rating by a further notch on Friday over concerns about the public finances and fears Brexit could damage the Britain’s economic growth. ...
A suspected cattle thief was beaten to death by a mob at Ramannagar village in Damurhuda upazila early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Shafiqul Islam Shafi, 31, son...
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