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A bird flu outbreak in India has forced the Bangladesh government to take cautionary measures for preventing any spread of the viral disease in the country. The Ministry of Fisheries...
Malaysia's king declared a nationwide state of emergency on Tuesday to curb the spread of COVID-19, a move that the opposition decried as an attempt by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin...
China will give Myanmar a batch of coronavirus vaccines for free, the Chinese foreign ministry announced on Tuesday, as the government’s top diplomat wrapped up a two-day visit to Myanmar....
India's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered an indefinite stay on the implementation of new agricultural laws that have triggered widespread protest from farmers, saying it wanted to protect farmers and...
Deutsche Bank will not do business in the future with US President Donald Trump or his companies in the wake of his supporters’ deadly January 6 assault on the US...
Children cannot afford another year of school disruption as the world enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore in a statement on Tuesday....
Nearly half of the 750-plus A-share companies that have announced preliminary results for the past year said their earnings improved, with petrochemical, pharmaceutical, high-tech, food and beverage sectors among the...
India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Tuesday that trust with China had been deeply impaired after last summer's border clash which resulted in the first loss of lives in...
Some of the largest partner organisations (POs) involved in the government's solar home system (SHS) programme in off-grid areas, have decried what they describe as "an unfair policy" for waiving...
Ashraful Haq Chowdhury has been appointed as the special trustee and representative of the European Economic Development Council (EEDC), one of the world's leading development agencies, with effect from January...
China is facing a rising virus outbreak in multiple cities ahead of its biggest annual festival following the lockdown of a county in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Monday, after...
Chinese scientists say they have found fossilized dinosaur tracks in Shanghang, East China's Fujian Province, a landmark discovery in the province's dinosaur research and ending the assumption that "no dinosaurs"...
Indonesian authorities have retrieved one of the black boxes from a Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed into the Java Sea at the weekend, a navy spokesman said on Tuesday, reports...
Bangladesh recorded 16 deaths and 718 new cases of the novel coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far to 524,020. The death toll climbed to...
The FBI has warned of armed protests being planned for Washington and all 50 US state capitals in the run-up to President-elect Joe Biden's Jan 20 inauguration, a federal law...
Members of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) visited the Hathazari Madrasa on Tuesday morning as part of their probe into the alleged killing of Hefazat-e-Islam founder Shah Ahmad Shafi. The...
A Sylhet tribunal on Tuesday accepted chargesheet against eight men accused of gang-raping a woman at MC College. Woman and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Mohammad Mohitul Haque Chowdhury took...
Rescuers are searching for 26 people still missing after two landslides hit a village in Indonesia’s West Java province over the weekend, officials said Tuesday. At least 13 people were...
The public hearing to fix the price of LPG, or liquefied petroleum gas, will begin on Thursday. In line with a court instruction, the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission, or BERC,...
The prices of leading cryptocurrency Bitcoin plunged over 20 per cent on Monday from its historic high of nearly 42,000 US dollars on Friday. According to data from coindesk.com, Bitcoin's...
The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on several Ukrainian individuals and entities, accusing them of US election interference and associating with a pro-Russian Ukrainian lawmaker linked to efforts by...
Indian airlines started delivering batches of Covid-19 vaccines across the country on Tuesday, getting ready for the launch of a campaign to offer shots to 1.3 billion people in what...
Republicans in the US Congress faced growing blowback on Monday (US standard time) from businesses that said they would cut off campaign contributions to those who voted last week to...
Malaysia’s king declared a nationwide state of emergency on Tuesday to curb the spread of Covid-19, a move that bolsters Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s precarious hold on power and forestalls...
Three people have died after a bridge collapsed in Rangamati on Tuesday. Road communications between Rangamati and Khagrachhari have been cut off as a result of the accident at 7am,...
Chess has a glorious history. The particular part of the game’s history that we are interested is the development of the queen piece. It’s an incredible story of powerful women...
Parler LLC, a social media platform favoured by many supporters of US President Donald Trump, sued Amazon.com on Monday, accusing it of making an illegal, politically motivated decision to shut...
Nearly 9 million Americans had been given their first Covid-19 vaccination dose as of Monday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, as states scrambled to step up...
Young women in colourful traditional costumes, masks and white stoles braved cold weather in lines and sat seats apart from one another in Yokohama on Monday to mark Japan’s Coming...
General Motors Co, as part of a $27 billion initiative to match or surpass Tesla Inc in the electric vehicle sector, is working with “all the best startups” on next-generation...
The Department of Environment (DoE) will demolish about 700 illegal brick kilns, one of the major sources of air pollution in the country. “As air pollution has worsened during this...
Pfizer Inc’s partner BioNTech SE has boosted the 2021 delivery target for their Covid-19 vaccine to 2 billion doses, up from 1.3 billion previously, as they add new production lines...
Companies must listen to scientists and align their plans to reach net zero targets with a global pact to fight climate change, executives told a Reuters Next conference on Monday....
Regaining of Muslin is a great achievement in Mujib Barsha. It is immensely important to contain the heritage of Bengali, said textile and jute minister Golam Dastagir Gazi. The minister...
India has announced Bangladesh as the "Country in Focus" for the 51st International Film Festival of India (IFFI). The ‘Country in Focus’ is a special segment that recognises the cinematic...
Rohingya repatriation could not be started because of the lack of cordiality of the Myanmar government, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said Monday. “Not a single Rohingya could be...
The year 2020 saw more than 4.5-million new mobile subscribers despite the impact of Covid-19 on the economy from March last year. Industry insiders said nearly 4.0-million mobile subscribers left...
The government has asked the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) to strengthen its monitoring on the edible oil market aiming to contain unusual price hike of the key...
US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday tapped a former career diplomat in William Burns to lead the CIA as the Democrat raced to put a national security team in place...
Twitter’s stock tumbled over 6 per cent in the early trading on Monday (US standard time) after its move to permanently suspend US President Donald Trump’s widely-followed account spurred concern...
Cost of the Dhaka-Mawa Expressway is set to increase once again for adding new components to its supporting project six months before its closure. The Roads and Highways Department (RHD)...
Bangladesh is set to roll out the Covid-19 immunisation across the country in early February, ending speculations over the availability of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. The state-run Directorate General of Health Service...
Bangladesh would seek revision of the deals involving the Indian line of credit (LoC)-II and III as some of the provisions prove to be barriers to the smooth implementation of...
US Congressional Democrats began a push on Monday to force US President Donald Trump from office, introducing one article of impeachment accusing him of inciting insurrection over a violent attack...
In the 10 months of a year when Covid-19 claimed more than 700 lives a month on an average, 729 fatalities at workplaces do not, on paper, look frightening enough....
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to provide the duty-free facility for import of COVID-19 protective materials —including masks, kits and other personal protective equipment (PPE) — until...
The roll-out of coronavirus vaccines in many countries will not provide herd immunity from the global pandemic this year, several health experts said on Monday, citing limited access for poor...
Mizanur Rahman Khan, a veteran journalist and joint editor of daily Prothom Alo, has died at the age of 54, reports bdnews24.com. He passed away during treatment in a hospital...
Time hasn't yet arrived to portray the ugly violence targeting the US Capitol on January 6 as even the first nail driven on the coffin of American democracy. The institution...
The January 6 attack on US Capitol, the seat of the US Congress, has shaken the world. As the most powerful country dictating global events for over three quarters of...
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