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Facebook has started removing false claims that the deadly wildfires in Oregon were started by various left-wing and right-wing groups, a spokesman for the social media company said on Saturday,...
Bangladesh has secured the top position among 118 countries in sending troops to the United Nations peacekeeping missions. Inter Services Public Relations Directorate disclosed the information through a press release on...
The border conference between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has been postponed as the BSF delegation failed to reach Dhaka due to a technical glitch...
Chattogram Divisional Commissioner ABM Azad has tested positive for coronavirus. Ikhtier Uddin Arafat, personal assistant to the commissioner said Azad’s test report came out from the Bangladesh Institute of Tropical...
Search and rescue crews using dogs combed through neighborhoods left in blackened ruins by massive wildfires burning across three states on Saturday, and US President Donald Trump said he would...
Nepal's Department of Immigration decided to resume all the visa services starting from Sunday after suspending the services over a month ago, a senior official of the department has said....
An unprecedented spate of deadly wildfires raging across Oregon kept half a million people under evacuation alert on Friday even as weary firefighters took advantage of improved weather to go...
The state-run listed company Meghna Petroleum has signed agreements with four non-listed companies - Beximco LPG Unit-1, Bashundhara LP Gas, Omera Gas One and Unitex LP Gas as part of...
Healthcare wastes, including PPE-related ones, are posing a serious threat to the public health and environment during this pandemic as such wastes generated outside hospitals and clinics remain out of...
India’s retail inflation likely stayed above the Reserve Bank of India’s medium-term target range in August for the fifth straight month as supply disruptions kept food and fuel prices high,...
Stocks witnessed an upbeat note on the opening day of the week on Sunday amid rising trading activities as enthusiastic investors continued their buying binge on sector sector-wise issues amid...
The global coronavirus death count soared to 919,081 on Sunday morning, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Data compiled by JHU showed that...
Afghan government representatives and Taliban insurgents gathered on Saturday for historic peace talks aimed at ending two decades of war that has killed tens of thousands of combatants and civilians....
Oxygen supply has grown scarce in some parts of India hard hit by coronavirus, hospital and local government officials said, as India reported a record daily jump in cases for...
The securities regulator has not yet published its annual report for the fiscal year (FY) 2018-19 despite another fiscal year -- 2019-20 -- gone on June 30, 2020. The officials...
The government is going to start open market sale (OMS) of onion and three other essential items across the country today (Sunday) with a view to keeping their prices within...
Saudi-led coalition fighter jets have attacked barracks and military sites of the Iran-aligned Houthi in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya reported on Sunday. The coalition also destroyed four Houthi...
Speakers during a virtual consultation have suggested that Bangladesh should ensure periodic review of the UN-binding treaty on business and human rights. They also called for involving three types of...
Many knitwear makers are yet to pay heed to their trade body's repeated call to introduce workers' biometric database since the move was taken five years back, sources said. Bangladesh...
A pilot project has been launched to manage solid waste in the country aiming to build 'zero waste community'. A huge amount of waste remains uncollected in big cities, speakers...
France has had 10,561 new confirmed Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, health authorities said on Saturday (local time), a new daily record as the number topped 10,000 for...
President of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) Dr. Rubana Huq Saturday said a true leader is always simple and humble. Speaking on leadership, the first ever female president...
The production at the country's lone operational coal mine at Barapukuria in northern Dinajpur started on a trial basis in a new phase this week, following a cease in production...
Three separate spells of flood since early June have caused various types of damage to as many as 181 high schools and colleges in three districts of Sylhet division. Most...
The revenue board is set to make electronic payment of customs duty and other taxes above Tk 0.2 million mandatory for importers and exporters. All customs houses and stations would...
The securities regulator will continue its crackdown on unscrupulous persons who are out to gobble up investors' hard-earned money through various deceitful acts. The warning came from chairman of the...
New Jersey-based Bayshore Pharmaceuticals has recalled two lots of the extended-release metformin tablets manufactured by Beximco Pharmaceuticals, after finding high levels of a probable carcinogen in the drug samples. Metformin...
AstraZeneca has resumed British clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine, one of the most advanced in development, after receiving the green light from safety watchdogs, the company said on Saturday....
Official statistics on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and trade growth are produced with delay, gaps and time lags. When navigating through crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic, access to near...
The head of Afghanistan’s peace council Abdullah Abdullah said implementing a ceasefire will be one of the first issues discussed when government and Taliban militant group representatives meet on Sunday,...
At least 50 people are thought to have died when an artisanal gold mine collapsed near Kamituga in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday afternoon, a...
Country's stock market, much to the liking of the investors, is now bullish. Its performance, according to market analysts, was among the best in the world in August. Though the...
The coronavirus pandemic has forced the government to shelve the plan for launching a fresh bidding for offshore drilling, fearing poor response from the potential global players. Bangladesh was, in...
Greek police fired teargas on Saturday during a protest by angry migrants left homeless by a blaze at Europe’s largest refugee centre, who demanded to leave the island of Lesbos...
According to sages and wise people, life remains haunted by death. The moment one is born, a universal countdown begins. It records how long a path one has traversed before...
Princess Leonor, the heir to the Spanish throne, has gone into quarantine after a classmate at her school tested positive for COVID-19, the royal household said on Saturday. The 14-year-old...
Education Minister Dipu Moni on Saturday revealed the government has taken an initiative to formulate a new education policy for the country, in which e-learning will receive greater priority, reports...
Police arrested a suspended government employee on Friday in connection with the attack on Ghoraghat Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Wahida Khanam and her father on September 03. The arrestee was...
Eleven progressive political organisations demanded the immediate release of detained migrant workers who returned home during Covid-19 pandemic period and were arrested by police after completing mandatory quarantine. The organisations...
The South Asian Institution of Policy and Governance (SIPG) of North South University (NSU) unveiled a book, ‘Gender Mainstreaming in Politics, Administration and Development in South Asia’, in a virtual...
The 8th Round of Brexit trade talks resumed in London on Tuesday, September 8 with a deadline set by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to get the deal signed by October...
Bangladesh continues to surprise the development watchers even during this pandemic. Despite COVID-19 infections persisting, there are visibly ample 'green shoots' in Bangladesh's economic recovery landscape. In many ways, the...
Russia and China dismissed on Friday allegations by Microsoft Corp that hackers linked to Moscow and Beijing were trying to spy on people tied to both US President Donald Trump...
Due to lack of existence of eco-friendly means of addressing waste in the country, mainly in the big cities, the majority of these waste remain uncollected, said experts stressing on...
The condition of Ghoraghat UNO Wahida Khanam, who was seriously injured in an attack by miscreants leaving her right side paralysed, has improved further, said doctors. Dr Mohammad Zahed Hossain,...
Some 180 members of the only Female Formed Police Unit (FPU) of Bangladesh Police have left for Congo to join the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic...
Healthcare wastes, including PPE-related ones, are posing a serious threat to the public health and environment during this pandemic as such wastes generated outside hospitals and clinics remain out of...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen will leave Dhaka for Turkey on Sunday on a four-day visit for holding a bilateral meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on September...
The Warner Bros movie studio on Friday postponed the debut of superhero sequel "Wonder Woman 1984" until Christmas Day as many theatres remain closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The...
Bangladesh urged Myanmar to engage foreign observers in Rakhaine to ensure safe and dignified repatriation of Rohingyas to their home land. It also apprehends that prolong stay of Rohingyas may...
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