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The world’s largest wetland is ablaze, but the fire is often invisible. In Brazil’s Pantanal, the vegetation compacted under the marshy flood water during the wet season dries out as...
Overall flood situation in the Ganges basin improved further today (Sunday) as the water level is declining constantly in most of the rivers for the last couple of days due...
Nearly 400 refugees and migrants remained stranded in the central Mediterranean after an overcrowded rescue vessel was emptied of all the rescued people on Saturday. The German-flagged Louise Michel, sponsored...
Dhaka ranked sixth worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Sunday. The capital city had an AQI score of 112 in the morning, indicating that the air quality was...
Residents of Geneva Camp in Mohammadpur have brought out the Tazia procession to mark Ashura in defiance of a ban amid the coronavirus epidemic. Police had positioned themselves on the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the history virtually repeated the Karbala tragedy in Bangladesh on August 15, 1975 with Ziaur Rahman being the key shadow man behind the...
The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will launch an eviction drive on Sept 7 to clear the roads and sidewalks of encroachment, said Mayor Md Atiqul Islam. “The authorities will...
One person was shot dead in Portland late on Saturday as protesters from rival groups clashed in the northwest U.S. city, which has seen frequent demonstrations for months that have...
Afghanistan's president has appointed a council for national reconciliation, which will have final say on whether the government will sign a peace deal with the Taliban after what are expected...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have recovered 1.4 lakh contraband Yaba tablets on early Sunday. Lt Col Faisal Hasan Khan, commanding officer of BGB battalion-2 of Teknaf, said their...
Bangladesh has registered 42 new fatalities from the novel coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the body count to 4,248. The tally of infections jumped to 310,822 on the...
India on Sunday reported the biggest single-day jump in coronavirus infections of any nation in the Covid-19 pandemic, as the epicentre shifts to the south Asian giant. India’s 78,761 cases...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked her party leaders not to allow the infiltrators into Bangladesh Awami League (AL) saying that the party’s image will be tarnished due to...
Twenty-nine people were killed and seven seriously injured when a restaurant collapsed in northern China’s Shanxi province, the country’s emergencies ministry media said on Sunday. The building collapsed at 9:40...
UN human rights experts have said countries must continue to search for victims of enforced disappearances even during the Covid-19 pandemic, UNB reports. "We renew our call for all states...
Amid a slowdown in economic activities due to the coronavirus pandemic, noted economists have suggested the government should be more creative and tactful to get close to meeting the ambitious...
The mortal remains of Bangladesh war hero CR Dutta, who died in a US hospital at the age of 93, will arrive in Bangladesh on Monday morning. An Emirates SkyCargo...
Registration of sport-utility vehicles (SUV) in the hard/soft category witnessed a drastic fall in January to June of 2020 compared to the same period of the last year, according to...
Dhaka ranked sixth worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Sunday. The capital city had an AQI score of 112 in the morning, indicating that the air quality was...
India and China continue to build roads in the remote Himalayan region blocking the road to peace between the two countries, says an article in South China Morning Post (SCMP)....
Belarus has revoked the accreditations of some journalists working for foreign media and covering anti-government protests that erupted after a disputed presidential election, news organisations and a journalist association said...
Serena Williams declared she is ready - yet again - to fight it out for a record-equaling 24th Grand Slam title when the US Open beings on Monday in a...
Global coronavirus cases surged past 25 million on Sunday, according to a Reuters tally, as India marked a worldwide record for daily new cases in the Covid-19 pandemic. The data...
The second and the final unit of the country's largest coal-fired power plant at Payra in southern Bangladesh is expected to initiate commercial operation from November next, around one year...
Rescuers in Afghanistan continued to search amidst mud and rubble for missing people on Saturday after flash flooding this week killed around 160 people and washed away homes across the...
The ongoing flood and Covid-19 pandemic have caused a double blow to the exports of vegetable, fruits and other perishable items. High freight charges of air cargo during the pandemic...
The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) does not have any actual data and information about the number of holdings that do not pay holding tax, an official said. They only...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said Bangladesh's growth-induced poverty reduction would not be sustained unless it ramps up investment and diversify the economy. But the financial sector's inefficiencies and...
The securities regulator will submit a report by December as part of the government move to restructure the state-run Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB) and its subsidiaries. To this effect,...
Most of the large companies that contribute higher revenues are still submitting VAT returns manually -- more than a year after the new law came into force. Less than 50...
A clinic was launched at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital (BSMMU) on Saturday, for follow up treatment of the people who have survived Covid-19. Professor Kanak Kanti Barua, vice-chancellor...
The title of the article is taken from a television interview given by Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University to Amy Goodman of Democracy...
With corona virus casting a long shadow over every nook and cranny of the economy, particularly after the month-long lockdown that impacted adversely on the health sector, every one was...
Bangladesh's capital market has hit a purple patch after a prolonged bearish spell as the country's premier bourse capped a tenth successive week of gains amid renewed optimism and confidence...
While the Covid-19 crisis is sending shockwaves around the globe, low-income developing countries (LIDCs) are in a particularly difficult position to respond. LIDCs have both been hit hard by external...
The China Railway Group Limited (CREC) has prepared a factory to make concrete sleepers for the Bangladesh Padma Bridge Rail Link Project (PBRLP) last month. Officials said this is the...
Public health experts in Bangladesh have expressed concern about the government's decision to charge people for Covid-19 tests amid a sharp decline in the number of tests being done. In...
Seventeen people were killed in China's Shanxi Province after a two-story restaurant collapsed during a gathering Saturday. At least 28 other people were injured in the accident that took place...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has suspended international flights to Kuwait, Kolkata, New Delhi and Manchester until September 30 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Biman’s Deputy General Manager Tahera Khandaker recently said...
Not long ago people living in the reputably quiet neighbourhoods in the capital used to rise from bed to the sweet warble of different kinds of birds. After all, chirping...
Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen has expressed his hope to bring back home at least one of the remaining five fugitive convicted killers of Father of the Nation...
A recent World Air Quality Report says Bangladesh has the most polluted air in the world and Dhaka is the second most polluted capital city. At a country level, the...
Health professionals across the world are yet to effectively tame the novel coronavirus. The deadly pathogen is still claiming at least three to four dozen lives and infecting a few...
Wuhan, Ground Zero for the COVID-19 pandemic and the Chinese city hardest hit by the coronavirus, will reopen all its schools and kindergartens on Tuesday. As many as 2,842 educational...
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Saturday took the three witnesses in a police case into their custody on a four-day remand for questioning them in a case filed over...
Japan’s ruling party will pick Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s successor around September 15, Kyodo news agency said on Saturday, after Abe abruptly announced his resignation for health reasons on Friday,...
BNP on Saturday alleged that the current government has made enforced disappearance as its main political programme to continue its ‘despotic’ rule by eliminating its opponents, reports UNB. “The panic...
Rescuers in Afghanistan continued to search amidst mud and rubble for missing people on Saturday after flash flooding this week killed around 160 people and washed away homes across the...
India is willing to collaborate with the ten-member ASEAN in the production of generic drugs and medical technologies used for the treatment of Covid-19 patients, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush...
The government is constructing 139 polders in the coastal belt to protect the areas from tidal surges and flood, State Minister for Water Resources Zaheed Farooque said Saturday. Constructing the...
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