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A Ukrainian couple who grew tired of arguing are trying to mend their on-off relationship by handcuffing their hands together for three months and documenting their experiences on social media....
Novavax Inc’s Covid-19 vaccine was 96 per cent effective in preventing cases caused by the original version of the coronavirus in a late-stage trial conducted in the United Kingdom, the...
The government has prepared a master plan to increase the country's productivity rate in a bid to face the competitive global market, an official said. Under the move, the Ministry...
Black-owned wineries in the United States are seeking to raise awareness of their brands and encourage more young people of colour to enter the industry. The Association of African American...
A lion had a vasectomy on Thursday after his Dutch keepers decided he had sired enough cubs. Thor, 11, had fathered five cubs with two lionesses in the past year,...
Spaceships zipping at the speed of light or faster are a staple of science fiction. Think of the Millennium Falcon in the “Star Wars” movies and the starship Enterprise in...
Bengal Commercial Bank Limited, the 60th scheduled bank of the country, has formally started its journey with the slogan 'inspiring growth'. Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal inaugurated the bank by...
The government is unlikely to make any amendment to the law related to trade union (TU) registration despite pressure from the rights groups and international bodies in this regard, sources...
Tree-covered land in Bangladesh has increased to 22.37 per cent of the total land area of the country, according to Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Md Shahab Uddin....
The government has downsized the national budget by 5.28 per cent to Tk 5.38 trillion for the current fiscal year, compelled by a significant shortfall in tax collection as the...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has advised the government not to issue licences to any banks or other financial institutions under political consideration. The advice came in a report prepared by...
Roger Federer’s comeback to the tour after nearly 14 months out ended with a 3-6 6-1 7-5 loss to Nikoloz Basilashvili in the Qatar Open quarter-finals on Thursday. Georgian Basilashvili...
Eminent economist Prof Rehman Sobhan on Thursday said local public representatives should be held accountable, if they fail to deliver public services properly. Otherwise, they should be voted out through...
The Chinese Olympic Committee has offered vaccine doses to be used for participants at this year’s Tokyo Olympics and the Beijing 2022 Winter Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said...
Prices of onion and fish continued to increase last week raising sufferings of the consumers, already battered by rising costs of rice, cooking oil, sugar and other essential commodities in...
The government has downsized the national budget by 5.28 per cent to Tk 5.38 trillion for the current fiscal year, compelled by a significant shortfall in tax collection as the...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has decided to form a startup refinancing fund worth Tk 5.0 billion, aiming to develop entrepreneurship in the country, officials said. The decision was taken at...
Libya’s first woman foreign minister, Najla el-Mangoush, will be sworn in next week as part of a new unity government, a rare female voice at the top table whose appointment...
Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc on Thursday said they would share with each other information on drivers and delivery workers they had banned from their platforms for the most...
চোখের সামনে বই খুলে বসলেই যেন আশপাশের চেনা জগৎ থেকে ছুটি পাওয়া যায় কিছুক্ষণের জন্য। সবার বেলায় যে ঠিক এমনটাই হবে, তার কোনো লিখিত প্রমাণ দেখানো একটু মুশকিলই বটে। কিন্তু...
The European Central Bank said on Thursday it would accelerate money-printing to keep a lid on euro zone borrowing costs, signalling to sceptical markets that it is determined to lay...
Prince William denied on Thursday that Britain’s royals were racist after Meghan, wife of his younger brother Harry, said one unnamed member of the family had asked how dark their...
The United States needs to set a target to slash its greenhouse gas emissions between 57 per cent and 63 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 in order to...
The Pentagon said Fox News host Tucker Carlson “essentially demeaned the entire US military” with a segment that decried increasing numbers of female service members and suggested they were weakening...
Oil prices rose more than 2.0 per cent on Thursday on a weaker dollar and expectations that a crude glut would be short-lived due to a steep fall in US...
Pakistan has on Thursday blocked the popular social media app TikTok after a court order over a complaint that it ran indecent content, a spokesman for the country’s telecoms regulator...
Nearly 30 years ago a malnourished two-year-old girl died in front of US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield at a refugee camp in northern Uganda. Two days ago...
AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc has said the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines and the release of major movies, including Walt Disney Co’s “Black Widow”, would boost sales this year, sending the...
SoftBank Group Corp-backed Coupang was valued at around $109 billion in its market debut on Thursday after South Korea’s largest e-commerce company raised around $4.6 billion in the biggest US...
The United Nations human rights investigator on Myanmar said on Thursday the military junta had “murdered” at least 70 people since its Feb. 1 coup, committing killings, torture, and persecution...
More than 3,600 migrant children were being held in US border facilities as of Thursday morning, a US official told Reuters, more than four times the number in late February,...
A massive fire broke out at a cattle farm on Thursday night. The fire erupted at 9:35pm, said Mahfuz Riven, a duty officer at Fire Service and Civil Defence's headquarters....
With the number of Covid-19 deaths fluctuating, the rate of infection has gone up for the past couple of weeks. The number of new infection hovered between a little over...
The generation that fought the Liberation War in 1971 is on the way out. It is the youths in the age group between 18 and 30 who joined the war...
Well over a year ago the Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority (DTCA) approved a proposal to set up 64 parking places in the capital. The decision that came in a meeting...
At least three people have been killed and 17 others injured on Thursday evening after a bus caught fire in Cumilla’s Daudkandi, according to private television channels. The incident occurred...
In terms of Biman Bangladesh Airline's slow-expanding fleet, optimistic people can take heart. Although it started its journey with its lone DC-3 on January 4, 1972, for a ceremonial opening...
The United Nations initiated the classification of countries in November 1971 and at that time, the Least Developed Country (LDC) category had 25 countries. Currently, the number of countries stands...
Bangladesh Energy and Power Research Council (BEPRC) is formulating a guideline for easy bikes as they are running illegally, killing hundreds of people in road accidents, its chairman Zakia Sultana...
Managing director of Denim Expert Limited Mostafiz Uddin has been declared ‘Sustainable Fashion Champion’ at the Drapers Sustainable Fashion Awards 2021, according to a statement. He has been granted the...
Coronavirus infections have begun resurging because people are ignoring health guidelines after receiving vaccine shots, Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said. “This is worrying. We’ve become a bit reckless,” Maleque...
The European Medicines Agency has authorised Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose coronavirus vaccine, giving the European Union’s 27 nations a fourth licensed vaccine to try to curb the pandemic amid a...
The tree-covered land in Bangladesh has increased to 22.37 per cent of the total areas, according to Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Md. Shahab Uddin. And, steps have...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday said Bangladesh will have stronger relations with the external world through celebrating the 50 years of Independence amid presence of global leaders...
How does a child grow up with a patriarchal mindset? The simple answer is upbringing. Exposure to gender discrimination based on stereotypes and unequal expectations as a child gives birth...
মালয়েশিয়ায় খ্রিস্টানদের ঈশ্বরের নাম উল্লেখ করতে "আল্লাহ'' উচ্চারণ করার ওপর নিষেধাজ্ঞার যে নীতি ছিল, কয়েক দশক ধরে চলা এক আইনি লড়াইয়ের পর আদালত তা বদলানোর পক্ষে রায় দিয়েছে। খবর বিবিসি...
A Dhaka court on Thursday framed charges against driver of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Abdul Malek in an arms case. Abdul Malek pleaded not guilty and demand...
China’s parliament approved on Thursday a draft decision to change Hong Kong’s electoral system, further reducing democratic representation in the city’s institutions and introducing a mechanism to vet politicians’ loyalty...
Prince William said on Thursday that Britain’s royal family was not racist after reveleations by his brother’s wife Meghan that a member of the family had asked how dark their...
চট্টগ্রামের শিশু ছাত্রকে পেটানোর ঘটনায় গ্রেপ্তার মাদ্রাসা শিক্ষক মোহাম্মদ ইয়াহিয়াকে কারাগারে পাঠানোর আদেশ দিয়েছে আদালত। খবর বিডিনিউজ টোয়েন্টিফোর ডটকম-এর। বৃহস্পতিবার দুপুরে চট্টগ্রামের জুডিশিয়াল ম্যাজিস্ট্রেট জিহান সানজিদার এ আদেশ দেন বলে...
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