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At least 15 people were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers following a previous enmity at Jadunathpur village in Sadar upazila on Saturday morning. Officer-in-charge of...
One Afghan Local Police (ALP) personnel and eight Taliban militants were killed and eight people wounded in a clash in Laghman, eastern Afghanistan on late Friday, the provincial government said...
China’s Finance Ministry on Friday criticized the cut in the Standard & Poor’s rating agency’s credit rating on Chinese government borrowing as a “wrong decision.” The finance ministry said...
Admission test for the Faculty of Arts has been held at Dhaka University. A total 32,749 candidates took the one-hour multiple choice questions or MCQ exam under 'Kha' unit...
India has stepped up security along its largely porous eastern border with Bangladesh and is using “chilli and stun grenades” to block the entry of Rohingya Muslims fleeing from violence...
Sheikh Hasina has floated a five-pronged proposal at the United Nations to thrash out a permanent solution to the Rohingya crisis and called on all countries to back it. ...
The central bank has brought around half-a-dozen commercial banks under its close monitoring after it detected anomalies in their recent share market activities. As part of the move, the...
Liliane Bettencourt, the heiress to cosmetics firm L'Oreal, has died aged 94, her family confirmed on Thursday. A statement said she had died on Wednesday at home "peacefully" overnight....
Nearly half of the country's ready-made garment (RMG) factories are yet to set up their safety committees despite having legal compulsion, sources said. Recent findings of the Department of...
Five members of a family sustained burn injuries in a fire caused by a gas oven blast in the city's Shyampur area early Friday. Inspector Farhaduzzaman, a duty officer at...
Chelsea have agreed terms with Atletico Madrid for the transfer of striker Diego Costa back to the Spanish club. The move, which will be completed in January, is subject...
The relief items sent by the Saudi Arabian government for the Rohingya refugees, who have fled to Bangladesh amid persecution in Myanmar since August 25, arrive in Chittagong on Friday....
Myanmar has been committed genocide against Rohingyas and its other Muslim minorities, according to the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal. The seven-strong panel of the international opinion tribunal delivered its verdict...
The United Nations estimates that $200 million will be needed over the next six months to help Rohingya Muslims refugees who have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar in ‘massive numbers’...
Scientists have engineered an antibody that attacks 99 per cent of HIV strains and can prevent infection in primates, reports BBC. It is built to attack three critical parts...
The rapid spread of ‘super malaria’ in South East Asia is an alarming global threat, scientists are warning. This dangerous form of the malaria parasite cannot be killed with the...
The President of the Philippines has threatened to have his own son killed if he is found guilty of drug trafficking allegations, reports mirror.co.uk. President Rodrigo Duterte 's son...
The latest meeting of the Bangladesh-India Joint-Working Group (JWG) on Trade concluded last week in Dhaka without making any concrete progress. Both sides agreed to address various Non-Tariff...
During the early '80s a young voice enthralled Nazrul Sangeet (Songs of Nazrul) listeners in Bangladesh. Her style of singing was inimitable and voice modulation was quite perfect. During...
Oil prices were narrowly higher on Friday as the market waited to see whether major oil producers would back an extension to output cuts beyond March at a meeting in...
The World Bank (WB) has said Bangladesh's low wages is not sufficient to be competitive in the global trade, rather it needs technological improvements in the manufacturing sector. The...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un blasted US President Donald Trump as "mentally deranged" on Friday and vowed to make him pay dearly for threatening to destroy his country, hours...
Berger Paints Bangladesh Limited contributed on Thursday Tk 18.5 million to the Bangladesh Workers' Welfare Foundation. Berger Paints Director Abdul Khalek handed over cheques to this effect to State...
Oil prices were mixed in early Asian trade on Friday as the market waited to see whether major oil producers would extend supply cuts beyond March at a meeting in...
UNDOUBTEDLY the standard of English in the educational institutions of the countryside leaves a lot to be desired. This is further confirmed as we look at the result sheets of...
A few days ago I along with one of my colleagues was returning home. I was driving the motor bike. As we were approaching Mouchak there was a serious traffic...
DEVELOPMENT of a country depends on a combination of factors of which politics is one. In fact, politics plays the most crucial role in determining the fate of the people....
The world around us is developing fast, but developing at the cost of depleting the environment. As we look around us there are evidences of glittering development, alongside pollutions to...
Most Asian stock markets fell Friday as investors turned cautious following new US sanctions targeting North Korea and a China credit rating downgrade. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 slipped 0.4...
Newspaper reports have it that flood-affected people, especially in 40 districts, are running to and fro in search of working capital to plant Aman paddy. Some of them are selling...
Teenage 'gang culture', a relatively new phenomenon, has lately started taking root in Dhaka's urban life. Its flare-ups and ferocity has triggered concern in social circles, which is a normal...
Shakib Al-Hasan, Bangladesh's star all-rounder and currently the number one Test all-rounder in the world, has raised a great deal of controversy by asking for and getting from the BCB...
The use of information and communication technology (ICT) in public service delivery is usually termed e-Governance. There is no debate that the integration of ICT in public service delivery has...
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US soil, there began a new kind of war across the world to haunt and kill terrorists. Afghanistan was attacked under the UN...
When it comes to intelligence, the elephant comes next to man. Its imposing size is good enough to make people curious about it. Elephants can be trained to execute a...
Guarantying human rights increases security. This simple equation between human rights and security is not understood by the states in most cases. As a result, sometimes they violate human rights...
The most important factor for sustainable progress of a country is how the graduates are equipped with the skills required for jobs today and also tomorrow. Solid bridges between skills...
Bangladesh Hockey Federation (BHF) on Friday announced an 18-member team for the upcoming 10th Men’s Hero Asia Cup Hockey tournament to be held in Bangladesh in October. Bangladesh is...
US president Donald Trump has called his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un a "madman who doesn't mind starving or killing his people", declaring the North Korean leader will be "tested...
Five prison guards of Kashimpur Central Jail were suspended on charge of taking and peddling drugs. The suspended guards are Azizar Rahman, Rakibul Islam, Al Mamun, Majnu Miah and...
UK Prime Minister's trade envoy Rushanara Ali MP stressed on for mounting international pressure on Myanmar army to face the Rohingya crisis. “Though Myanmar is a democratic country its...
Police rescued 13 Rohingya people, who entered Bangladesh fleeing persecution in Rakhine State of Myanmar, from the bus stand area of Kalaroa upazila headquarters on Friday afternoon. Following information,...
The condition of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Annisul Huq is gradually improving although he is still in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a London hospital, reports UNB....
Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested 68 drug dealers and users in an anti-drug drive from the city in the last 24 hours till 6am on Friday. During the drive, the...
Mexico-origin actress Salma Hayek is gathering donations for earthquake relief in Mexico, says a report on CNN. The actress said in an emotional plea on Instagram that she "has...
Nepal will measure Mount Everest afresh to settle a controversy over height of the world’s tallest peak, especially after some estimates suggested it became a little shorter in the wake...
Police detained two students, including a student of Dhaka University, on charge of fraudulence in the admission test of the university on Friday. The detainees are Shahjahan Ali, a...
The eye of Hurricane Maria was nearing the Turks and Caicos early Friday as Puerto Rico sought to recover from the storm’s devastation. Two days after Maria ravaged Puerto...
Two pedestrians were killed as a minibus plunged into a roadside ditch after hitting the them on Sylhet-Sunamganj highway in Sunamganj. The incident also left seven passengers of the...
Private cars will be barred from travelling on Manik Miah Avenue of Dhaka on the first Friday of every month. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader made the...
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