A judge will decide on Tuesday whether former national security adviser Michael Flynn should be sent to prison for lying to the FBI in a case stemming from the investigation...
Oil prices fell more than $1 on Tuesday, dropping for a third session as reports of growing inventory and forecasts of record shale output in the United States stoked worries...
South Korean fire department officials say three teenage boys were presumed dead and seven other boys were being treated for injuries after they were found unconscious at a motel in...
British economic growth this year and in 2019 looks set to be the nine years low, due to a freeze in business investment and weak consumer demand ahead of Brexit,...
Japan will accelerate spending on advanced stealth fighters, long-range missiles and other equipment over the next five years to support US forces facing China’s military in the Western Pacific, two...
The European Commission (EC) has asked Italy for a further €2.5 billion-€3 billion ($3.40 billion) in savings before approving the country’s 2019 budget, Corriere della Sera daily reported on Tuesday....
The petroleum exports of United States have increased in recent years, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a report on Monday. The EIA said in its latest Petroleum...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a special anti-drug drive arrested 26 people from different areas of Dhaka city for selling and consuming illegal drugs. A special team of DMP, comprising...
Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation paid tribute to the valiant freedom fighters on the Victory Day by placing wreaths at the National Memorial at Savar and to the portrait of...
Indian shares halted their five-day rally on Tuesday, amid concerns that global economic growth was weakening and as investors booked profits after five straight days of gains. The losses came...
Oscar-winning actor Jeff Bridges will receive a lifetime achievement award at January’s Golden Globes ceremony for his wide range of work, from Western “True Grit” to comedy “The Big Lebowski,”...
BNP rolled out its election manifesto for the 11th parliamentary elections on Tuesday with a set of promises, including making democracy its everyday practice, building a revenge-free Bangladesh and raising...
The High Court has rejected three petitions to restore Khaleda Zia’s nominations for three parliamentary races in the Dec 30 polls. As a result the BNP chairperson is blocked from...
Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday expressed hope that his party will be elected again in the upcoming national election slated...
A Salvadoran woman accused of the attempted murder of her newborn baby under the country’s strict abortion laws after she was raped by her stepfather was freed by a court...
A poacher in US has been ordered to watch the Disney film Bambi repeatedly after he was convicted of illegally killing "hundreds" of deer. Missouri hunter David Berry Jr must...
Roads and Highways Department (RHD) is now able to put 98 per cent of its own land on record after its three-year efforts, officials said. RHD owns a total of...
Asian stocks slipped on Tuesday, tracking losses on Wall Street as traders braced for an interest rate hike by Federal Reserve. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index was 1.2 per cent lower...
The prices of most of the shares on bourses witnessed positive trend in early hour of trading on Tuesday as some investors are active on sector-wise issues amid lucrative price...
Gently stroking a baby reduces activity in their brain associated with painful experiences, a study has found. The study, by University of Oxford and Liverpool John Moores University, monitored the...
Voting to elect the new managing committee of the Jatiya Press Club is underway in Dhaka city on Tuesday. The voting began at 9:00 am and will continue until 5:00...
A Turkish national and a pick-up van driver were killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Rajshahi highway at Senbhag in Puthia upazila on Monday night. The victims were identified as...
Jeremy Corbyn has tabled a motion of no confidence in Theresa May, after she said MPs would not vote on her Brexit deal until the week of 14 January. The...
Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election on social media was more widespread than previously thought and included attempts to divide Americans by race and extreme ideology, said reports...
Twitter has warned of ‘unusual activity’ from China and Saudi Arabia related to a bug in a help form. The bug - discovered on 15 November and fixed the day...
Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday rolled out her party’s 21-point manifesto with various pledges, including expansion of urban facilities to villages and creating huge jobs...
The country's food-grain imports plunged by over 75 per cent to US$ 386 million during the first quarter of this year in terms of letters of credit (LCs) opened after...
The production of CVO Petrochemical Refinery remains stopped for 15 days due to scheduled maintenance and machinery up-gradation work. The company's maintenance and machinery up-gradation work will be executed as...
Despite having immense potential, footwear manufacturing business in Bhairab cannot flourish at the desired level, largely due to lack of both low-cost fund and technical assistance, according to insiders. If...
Bangladesh celebrates the 'International Migrants Day 2018' today (Tuesday) amid substantial fall in overseas jobs and soaring costs of migration. The day is being observed, as also elsewhere in the...
Petrobangla is unlikely to utilise the full capacity of the floating LNG import terminal and its re-gasification facility before next few weeks due to the scarcity of imported LNG. But...
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) on Monday scrambled to contain fallout from a Reuters report that the healthcare conglomerate knew for decades that cancer-causing asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder, taking...
The government has decided to scrap the Dhaka-Chattogram high speed rail line project as China complained that the signing of a MoU on the scheme between Bangladesh Railway (BR) and...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) issued a fresh rescheduled policy on short-term agriculture loans on Monday aiming to boost production through facilitating farmers across the country, officials said. Under the policy, the...
Years ago a Bangladeshi-origin London resident surprised his deshi guest at the dining table when the dishes served were found to be all vegetarian. Accustomed to sumptuous meat preparations and...
In this country in the past, precisely from the mid-1950s onwards, 'vota-vuti' (colloquial Bangla for election) had been integral to the list of its many social festivities. The East Bengal...
We have been constantly wrestling with two intertwined issues revolving around the country's roads- and- highways infrastructure in a collective sense. The first one is to keep pace with the...
Anthony Mascarenhas's "Genocide" article, published on June 13, 1971 in the Sunday Times of London, was a game-changer. Until then, only first-hand observers would use 'genocide' to describe what they...
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines Xenophobia as fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign. Thus, one need not necessarily be a foreigner or...
On November 28, 2018, BBC news reported that a bus operator in Birmingham, England has been fined around £2.2 million for failing to carry out corporate responsibility as evidenced from...
Export diversification, as an economic strategy, has not yet been successful enough. Policy-level discrimination is often cited as a major cause for this. Exporters believe that supporting policies are more...
The election to the Jatiya Press Club managing committee will be held on Tuesday. The voting to elect the new managing committee of the club for the 2018-19 tenure will...
JOYPURHAT, Dec 17: Due to favourable weather conditions and timely supply of necessary agri-input, sweet potato farmers are expecting a bumper output in the district.Experts said sweet potato is vitamin-A,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said those who have got deviated from ethics and ideology can give nothing to the nation. Without naming anybody, the Prime Minister said, "None can...
Manchester United will face Neymar and Paris Saint-Germain in the last 16 of the Champions League, while Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp must tackle German opposition in the form of Bayern...
The Awami League has described the promise mentioned in Jatiya Oikyafront's election manifesto to continue the trial for war criminals as a joke to the nation. Joint general secretary of...
West Indies have started the T20I series against Bangladesh with a comprehensive 8-wicket win in Sylhet. After winning the toss and electing to bat first, Bangladesh failed to set a...
Four BNP-nominated Upazila chairmen who sought to compete in the parliamentary election have been blocked from entering the race by a series of court orders. Dhaka-20 candidate Tamiz Uddin, Bogura-3...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country may start a new military operation in Syria at any moment. Erdogan made the comments during a speech in the central...
The euro recovered nearly half a per cent from recent lows on Monday as the dollar slipped, with traders reluctant to push the US currency much higher before the Federal...
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