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Three members of the Railway Nirapatta Bahini (RNB), caught on video assaulting and abusing an Army personnel at Chattogram Railway Station, were arrested. The arrestees were identified as Md Main...
A road accident has left at least three Bangladeshi nationals dead and two others injured in Saudi Arabia. The group included two siblings from Cumilla who were travelling to the...
The cost of energy for British consumers will rise by 80 per cent from October, regulator Ofgem said on Friday, taking average annual household bills to 3,549 pounds ($4,188). Ofgem...
Bangladesh has been unanimously elected a member of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth Board of Governors for the term 2022-2024, BSS reports. The Commonwealth Executive Committee consists of sixteen...
Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh ITO Naoki has said Japan would continue working closely with the international community, including ASEAN, to improve the situation in Myanmar, and make utmost efforts to...
India's Adani Group on Friday rejected claims made by New Delhi Television (NDTV) that regulatory curbs restricted the news network's founders from selling their stake in the company. Adani Group,...
Former state minister Tanzim Ahmed Sohel Taj made a sudden visit to the ruling Awami League (AL) president's political office on Thursday night, lending credence to speculation about his return...
For nearly 70 years an imagined line running down the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and China has helped keep the peace but the so-called median line is looking increasingly meaningless...
Twitter founder and former chief executive Jack Dorsey tweeted Thursday that he regrets the social media platform became a company. "The biggest issue and my biggest regret is that it...
প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনা বলেছেন, মিয়ানমারকে জোরপূর্বক বাস্তুচ্যুত রোহিঙ্গাদের মর্যাদাপূর্ণ প্রত্যাবর্তনের জন্য একটি উপযুক্ত পরিবেশ তৈরি করতে আন্তর্জাতিক সংস্থাগুলোকে রাখাইন রাজ্যে কাজ করার অনুমতি দেওয়া উচিত। খবর বাসসের। তিনি বলেন, ‘মিয়ানমারের...
President Emmanuel Macron indicated France and Algeria should move beyond their "painful" shared history and look to the future on Thursday at the start of a three-day visit to the...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the world narrowly avoided a radiation disaster as electricity to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was cut for hours due to Russian shelling in the...
Britney Spears has released her first new music since being released from a conservatorship that controlled almost every aspect of her life. Hold Me Closer - a duet with Sir...
Suspended Thai leader Prayuth Chan-ocha said on social media he will continue in his role as defence minister, in his first direct address to the public since a court ordered...
Japanese wages are unlikely to grow as much as nationwide consumer prices over the coming year, almost 80 per cent of economists said in a Reuters poll, which would be...
কুশিয়ারা নদীর পানি বণ্টনের লক্ষ্যে হতে চলা সমঝোতা স্মারকের (এমওইউ) খুঁটিনাটি চূড়ান্ত করেছে বাংলাদেশ ও ভারত। বৃহস্পতিবার দিল্লিতে দুই দেশের যৌথ নদী কমিশনের পানি সম্পদমন্ত্রী পর্যায়ের বৈঠকে বিষয়গুলো চূড়ান্ত করা...
For years Indian television company NDTV pursued an independent line critical of the government even as others embraced strident nationalism. Now a proposed takeover by tycoon Gautam Adani's conglomerate has...
মিয়ানমারে নির্যাতিত রোহিঙ্গা শরণার্থীদের ‘বড় সংখ্যক’কে আশ্রয় দেওয়ার ঘোষণা দিয়েছে যুক্তরাষ্ট্র সরকার। বাংলাদেশে রোহিঙ্গা ঢলের পাঁচ বছর পূর্তিতে বৃহস্পতিবার এক বিবৃতিতে এ ঘোষণা দেন যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের পররাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রী অ্যান্টনি ব্লিংকেন। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর...
Three cars together worth Tk 42 million and purchased for a government project are being used for personal comfort by top officials although it is mandatory to return the vehicles...
মজুরি বাড়ানোর দাবিতে চা শ্রমিকদের আন্দোলনের মধ্যে চা বাগানের মালিকদের সঙ্গে সভা করবেন প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনা। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকমের। শনিবার বিকাল ৪টায় গণভবনে প্রধানমন্ত্রী বাগান মালিকদের সঙ্গে সরাসরি বৈঠক করবেন...
Bangladesh is unlikely to face any problem in importing food items from Russia and Ukraine or any other countries as the government is considering alternative payment arrangements, bypassing SWIFT. "The...
The United Kingdom on Thursday took fresh action against the Myanmar Armed Forces on the 5th anniversary of the military's campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya. New sanctions against...
Some 50-litre Russian heavy crude oil has reached Dhaka by airfreight as specimen to check whether it can be refined in Bangladesh's decades-old lone refinery, as fuel-shortage concern haunts the...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has launched a refinancing scheme worth Tk 10 billion -- aiming to reduce import dependency of wheat and maize through facilitating local production of the food...
The rice prices hit a record high in the local market following tiny imports in the past two months. Common coarse rice retails at Tk 56-58, medium at Tk 63-66...
The government has moved to slash import taxes of two key essentials -- diesel and rice -- as high food and fuel prices amid boiling inflation hits hard ordinary people....
The global environment protection campaigners have been advocating greenhouse gas cut for the last 40/50 years. Of late, repeated climate summits and expert-level conferences have fixed the reduction of the...
SCOPUS If delivered, the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) may serve as a truer barometer of Bangladesh's 'graduation' to a 'developing' country by 2026 than the three CDP (Committee...
Few people are aware that August 24 is observed as the Nari Nirjaton Protirodh Dibas (the Day of Resistance to Oppression of Women) in this country. Even the media ---...
The United States is working to “significantly increase” resettlement of Rohingya refugees, including from Bangladesh, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said. He made the announcement in a statement to...
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) in a letter to the Prime Minister has appealed for a review of the fuel price hike for readjustment through...
UN Secretary General’s special envoy on Myanmar Noeleen Heyzer has told the international community to keep the Rohingya and the affected host communities high on the international agenda. “The generosity...
Bangladesh has been weighing options to make payments for commodities it seeks to import from Russia after Moscow was banned from using the SWIFT payment system, the most popular international...
The streets of capital Dhaka are flooded with plastic waste due to poor waste management and lack of awareness among its inhabitants. As much as 48.7 kg of plastic waste,...
Nearly 9.9 per cent of household contacts had TB-like symptoms and subsequently, 6.7 per cent were diagnosed with TB, thus indicating an alarming and higher prevalence of Tuberculosis in Bangladesh,...
জাতিসংঘের পুলিশ প্রধান সম্মেলনে অংশ নিতে আইজিপি বেনজীর আহমেদের যুক্তরাষ্ট্রে যাওয়া নিয়ে যে সংশয় তৈরি হয়েছিল, তা দূর হল দেশটির ভিসা পেয়ে। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম-এর। বৃহস্পতিবার স্বরাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রণালয়ের জ্যেষ্ঠ...
Launch and speedboat services have resumed on the Shimulia-Majhikandi route after a suspension of two months following the inauguration of the multipurpose Padma Bridge. Launch MV Ealitch left Shimulia Ghat...
রাশিয়া ও ইউক্রেনের সঙ্গে লেনদেন করতে পারছে এমন ব্যাংকের মাধ্যমে অর্থ পরিশোধ করে দেশ দুটি থেকে জ্বালানিসহ প্রয়োজনীয় পণ্য আমদানির পরিকল্পনা করছে সরকার। বিশ্বে এমন ব্যাংক ২৪টি আছে জানিয়ে বাণিজ্যমন্ত্রী...
Thailand's new acting leader, Prawit Wongsuwan, represents little substantial change from suspended Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha for opposition forces seeking to end what they decry as military dominance of politics,...
Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed has received USA visa to join a 2-day United Nations Chiefs of Police Summit (UNCOPS 2022) scheduled from August 31 to September 1. The...
Another group of US lawmakers will arrive in Taiwan on Thursday evening, Taiwan's official Central News Agency reported, the third such visit this month and defying pressure from Beijing for...
নির্বাচন কমিশনের সঙ্গে সংলাপে না গিয়ে বিএনপি ইভিএম প্রত্যাখ্যান করায় আওয়ামী লীগ সাধারণ সম্পাদক ওবায়দুল কাদের প্রশ্ন রেখে বলেছেন, তাদের মনে তবে কোন খেলা? বৃহস্পতিবার দুপুরে বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিবর রহমান...
The small entrepreneurs in the cluster-based manufacturing industries will get 5-year term loans with flexible conditions from the Tk 250 billion special refinance scheme of Bangladesh Bank. The central bank...
The UK on Thursday took fresh action against Myanmar Armed Forces into the sixth year of the military’s campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya community. New sanctions have been...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has formed a refinancing scheme of Tk 1.0 billion for wheat and maize cultivators in a bid to increase the yield of the food grains and reduce...
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has said that four members of a gang involved in swindling money from mobile banking users through cloning SIM cards have been arrested from Dhaka, Jamalpur...
Another 180 dengue patients were hospitalised across the country in 24 hours till Thursday morning, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Among them, 134 patients were hospitalised...
মিয়ানমারে যুক্তরাজ্যের সাবেক রাষ্ট্রদূত ভিকি বোম্যান ও তার স্বামীকে গ্রেপ্তার করেছে সামরিক কর্তৃপক্ষ। বুধবার তাদেরকে গ্রেপ্তার করা হয়েছে। বিবিসি জানায়, বোম্যানের বিরুদ্ধে ভিসা আইন লঙ্ঘন এবং তার স্বামীর বিরুদ্ধে তাকে...
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has said the government has no restrictions on importing food products from Russia and Ukraine or any other country. The minister was talking to the media...
Japan's national police chief said Thursday he will resign to take responsibility over shortfalls in security that an investigation by his own agency showed did not adequately safeguard former Japanese...
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