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Almost half the world's population watched the World Cup in Russia on television this summer, according to research carried out for Fifa. A record 3.57 billion people tuned in during...
The concept and the practice of zakat is very comprehensive in the many ways that it can assist the poor, those facing risks as well as the destitute in a...
Every major country in the world has been responding to the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. Unlike many other technologies, AI has the potential of causing massive harm as...
The body of renowned filmmaker and actor Amjad Hossain was brought back to Dhaka on Friday evening, seven days after his death. A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight, carrying the body,...
The COP24 UN Climate Change Conference 2018 closed in Katowice, Poland on December 15. Over the past two weeks at the conference, demand for climate action has been increasing. However,...
Earth's North Pole is famous for its snowy climes - and for hosting Santa's workshop, of course. But as this picture reveal, it's not the only planet with snow scenes...
Saudi business firm ‘Engineering Dimensions’ is going to set up a modern cement factory in Chhatak upazila of Sunamganj district. The Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) signed a deal with...
The 2018 Global Gender Gap Report was released by the World Economic Forum (WEF), a Geneva based organisation, on December 18, 2018. While designed to increase better responsiveness about challenges...
The Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited sold 16,961.75 million cubic mitres of gas worth Tk 14.18 billion in the fiscal year 2017-18 (FY18), which was a 13 per cent increase...
Mashrafe BinMortaza, whose Midas touch as a captain of the Bangladesh cricket team has changed the outfit's attitude and shape, has left his sobering influence on yet another area-politics to...
A Paris court on Friday fined French oil group Total 500,000 euros for bribing foreign public officials in a case related to contracts in Iran in 1997. Total was accused...
Every day we come across individuals seeking a suitable position in the job market. While each application carries a great deal of degrees, it lacks creativity. When we meet them,...
Frustration and hopelessness were all that Lankao county's Yan Qing Guan had in his miserable life. That was until the Xi Jinping government helped him run his own business that...
Flights resumed at London’s Gatwick Airport on Friday after drones sparked about 36 hours of travel chaos including the shutdown of the airfield, leaving tens of thousands of passengers stranded...
Describing the steps to resolve the acute crisis of water and electricity in the capital, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the city dwellers are now free from these problems....
Tie-breaks will be played in the final set at the Australian Open for the first time in January, after organisers decided to move away from the existing practice of advantage...
Jatiya Oikyafront on Friday demanded the Election Commission (EC) to reschedule elections in the seats where its candidates have been declared ineligible by court. The BNP-led alliance made the demand...
Voters of six constituencies, where electronic voting machines (EVM) will be used, will get their smart national identity cards before the election. The Election Commission (EC) made the announcement in...
The Trump administration is planning to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan, US media say. Reports, citing unnamed officials, say about 7,000 troops - roughly half the remaining US military...
Customs intelligence this morning arrested a man with five gold bars, weighing 498 grams, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. The arrested Md Noor Hossain came here from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,...
BNP candidate Golam Maula Rony has been accused in a case filed under the Digital Security Act over an alleged phone conversation that recently leaked on social media. In the...
Plant collectors have searched for the hidden wonders of the plant world for centuries. Yet plants that are new to science are still being described, at a rate of about...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s leadership in women empowerment was highly praised at a meeting, held recently at the UK House of Lords, as some eminent British parliamentarians, British-Bangladeshi academics and...
The NATO has hailed the contribution of US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis to keeping the military alliance strong and said it was ready to work closely with his successor, underlining...
Police dragged Catalan separatist protesters off highways on Friday as Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez began a cabinet meeting in the regional capital Barcelona in an attempt at reconciliation. Dozens...
Japanese Defence Minister Takeshi Iwaya protested to South Korea after a South Korean destroyer locked its targeting radar on an Japanese surveillance plane, he said on Friday. Iwaya, speaking to...
The United Nations is closely observing the situation in Bangladesh ahead of the national election scheduled to be held on December 30. Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, came...
The BNP is now struggling to come up with a 'back-up plan' to stay afloat in the December 30 election race amid the arrest of its candidates and activists and...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he would probably have to get married again, but did not say to whom. Putin, 66, who jealously protects his privacy and that...
The 2020 Summer Olympics budget remains unchanged at $12.6 billion (9.9 billion pounds) after increases in some areas were offset by reductions in others, with Games organisers acknowledging on Friday...
Fish production has increased significantly in Rajshahi district after taking multidimensional development and extension programmes. Fish farming made many people financially solvent in the region along with a boost to...
The US House of Representatives has passed a spending bill, including money for the president's border wall, to keep US agencies open until February. The measure now heads to the...
A two-day long National Mathematics Conference has begun at A F Mujibur Rahman Bhaban of Dhaka University (DU) in the capital. A F Mujibur Rahman Foundation and Bangladesh Mathematical Society...
It's not exactly a national holiday - yet - but "gravy day" is being well celebrated in Australia, thanks to a song and plenty of internet jokes. What is gravy...
China’s cabinet financial oversight body said on Friday that online rumours about a decision to be made by the Central Economic Work Conference not to cut taxes and fees are...
Russia’s media regulator, Roskomnadzor, said on Friday it would carry out checks to determine if the BBC World News channel and BBC internet sites complied with Russian law. The regulator...
A young man allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling of his house at Pahartoli in Ramu upazila in Cox’s Bazar on Friday. The dead man was identified...
A van puller was killed when a truck hit his van on Gopalganj-Tekerhat road in Muksudpur upazila in the early hours of Friday. The dead man was identified as Sattar...
Bangladesh will collect and test samples of Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder for asbestos in a couple of days, its main testing authority said on Friday. The decision was taken...
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the newly built Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport terminal, the largest airport in West Africa, in the capital city Abuja. The "ultra-modern" facility will accelerate...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three people from Dhaka city's Shyamoli on Thursday night for their alleged involvement in spreading rumours through posting false, fabricated and provocative remarks...
Shortly after the release of his 2015 Wall Street drama “The Big Short,” writer and director Adam McKay was home sick with the flu and picked up a book about...
Physical, verbal and mental abuses of child domestic workers continue unabated in the country for what child rights experts say are lack of proper monitoring and supervision, and a special...
Maksud Mahmudov was among millions of Uzbeks who left their impoverished homeland as soon as they finished school to find work in Russia. In 2014, he and others came back...
A company called Swarm Technologies Inc in US will pay a $900,000 fine for launching and operating four small experimental communications satellites that risked “satellite collisions” and threatened “critical commercial...
A South African jazz musician who played his guitar during brain surgery is making a successful recovery. Musa Manzini was kept awake during the six-hour operation partly to preserve and...
A young man was injured in an attack allegedly by some activists of Rajshahi University unit Chhatra League on the university campus in Rajshahi on Thursday. The injured was identified...
The World Bank (WB) said on Friday that it has downgraded its growth projections for the Philippines to 6.4 per cent in 2018 and 6.5 per cent in 2019 "to...
Japanese shares suffered more losses on Friday, with major indexes sinking to fresh multi-month lows, as the threats of further hikes in US borrowing costs. The benchmark Nikkei share average...
Oil prices climbed on Friday after tumbling 5 percent in the previous session on signs OPEC’s production cuts that start next month will be deeper than expected. Benchmark Brent crude...
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