Rescue workers said on Friday they were searching for more than 1,000 people reported missing in a northern California town reduced to ashes by the deadliest wildfire in the state’s...
Industries Secretary Abdul Halim on Saturday said Bangladesh Industrial and Technical Assistance Centre (BITAC) is building employment opportunities for the needy and poor youth while helping in poverty reduction. He...
Five Eurosceptic cabinet ministers are pressing UK prime minister Theresa May to make last-minute changes to her controversial Brexit deal. The leader of the Commons, Andrea Leadsom, is believed to...
A protester has died and there are reports of injuries elsewhere as demonstrators angry at rising fuel prices disrupt traffic across France. The female protester was struck after a driver...
A man was electrocuted while working in his house at Chitkibari village in Kotalipara upazila of Gopalganj district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Kartik Dhali, 40, of the...
The Netherlands deservedly beat France on Friday night in the Uefa Nations League to end the world champions' 15-game unbeaten run and relegate Germany. Liverpool midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum struck from...
Jatiya Oikyafront chief Dr Kamal Hossain on Saturday said Moulana Bhasani will be their source of inspiration to win the forthcoming polls. "Moulana Bhasani had played the key role in...
Scientists have redefined the kilogram and three other standard units of measure at the General Conference on Weights and Measures recently. Dozen nations voted at the conference the Palace of...
A homeless man who used his shopping trolley to try to ram a knife-wielding attacker in Melbourne has been charged with offences including burglary and theft. Michael Rogers, dubbed "Trolley...
Reza Kibria, son of former finance minister and Awami League leader Shah AMS Kibria, is going to join the upcoming 11th parliamentary elections as a candidate of Jatiya Oikyafront, a...
Bangladesh Test captain Shakib Al Hasan and opening batsman Soumya Sarkar will return to the Bangladesh squad for the upcoming Test series against the West Indies. Left-arm off-spinner Nayeem Hasan...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said it is the responsibility of the Election Commission to ensure a level-playing field for all the parties participating in the forthcoming...
William Goldman, screenwriter of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men, has died aged 87. Goldman, who received Oscars for both of those films, also wrote...
The Farmers Bank Limited on Saturday introduced recovery software in an effort to ensure secured banking in its operations. The new generation bank launched the software through a daylong seminar...
Some 25,000 char families, mostly victims of river erosion and landless, changed fortune through farming pumpkin on sandbars in Rangpur agriculture region over the last nine years. Earlier, these have-nots...
Justin Bieber has agreed to settle a long-running lawsuit filed by a former neighbour whose house the pop singer egged. A document filed Friday shows the case has been resolved...
Nearly 330,000 Rohingyas and Bangladesh host community will be vaccinated against cholera in a month-long campaign that began on Saturday in the camps of Cox’s Bazar district and its nearby...
Managing Editor (ME) of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) Shahriar Shahid passed away while undergoing treatment at a city hospital around 1:50 pm on Saturday. He was 55. Shahriar, son of...
California's unemployment rate held at the record low of 4.1 per cent in October as employers added 36,400 nonfarm payroll jobs, the state Employment Development Department said Friday. The rate...
The United Nations has said most of some 669 children killed and 39 maimed reportedly in Myanmar were Rohingyas. Spokesman for the UN Secretary‑General Stephane Dujarric came up with the...
Election Commissioner Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury has warned election officials that they will face stern disciplinary action if found guilty of bias during the upcoming national election. A training programme for...
Plants can offer protection against terrorist attacks in cities, a study published on Friday by the Bundeswehr University Munich, a higher education institution of the German Armed Forces, found. According...
Retail and digital experts, investors, tech experts and over 200 CXOs from the biggest brands in Asia will come together for #ready2018 on 21 November at the Marina Bay Sands...
The Argentine Navy said on Saturday a private company hired by the government has located the submarine ARA San Juan some 800 meters (2625 feet) below the ocean’s surface a...
US stocks rose on Friday after President Donald Trump said the United States may not have to impose further tariffs on Chinese goods. The markets moved higher, however, after the...
Apple Inc has inked a multi-year deal with A24, the studio behind Oscar-winning projects “Moonlight” and “Amy”, a source familiar with the plans briefed media, as the iPhone maker pushes...
World stocks ended the week nearly flat on Friday while the US dollar weakened and Treasury yields pulled back after a top Federal Reserve official said US interest rates were...
The more sensitive people are to the bitter taste of caffeine, the more coffee they drink, reported a study from Northwestern Medicine and QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Australia....
Neymar scored a contested second-half penalty to give Brazil a 1-0 friendly win over Uruguay and bring some joy to their fans on a gloomy Friday at the Emirates Stadium...
Youth School for Social Entrepreneurs (YSSE), in association with Independent HR Society (IHRS) of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), has organised ‘’Bangladesh Youth Symposium 2018’’ on the university campus in the...
Indian conglomerate Tata Sons Ltd said on Friday it is in preliminary talks with struggling Jet Airways Ltd but has not made a proposal to acquire a stake, cooling speculation...
A mobile court in Gopalganj sentenced a clinic owner to three months' jail for conducting caesarean section without any doctor or nurse at his clinic in Kotalipara upazila. Deshbandhu Biswas,...
Police recovered the body of an unidentified rickshaw-puller from Sebhasangha intersection in Sadar upazila of Narsingdi on Saturday morning. Mizan, a sub-inspector (SI) of Sadar Police Station, said locals spotted...
The United States will not back down from its trade dispute with China, and might even double its tariffs, unless Beijing bows to US demands, Vice President Mike Pence said...
Donald Trump has threatened to walk out of future press briefings if reporters do not act with 'decorum'. The US president was speaking after a Washington DC court ordered the...
Mortar bombs were fired at a UN peacekeeping base and gunfire could be heard in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern city of Beni, an area which has seen a...
A convicted robber was killed in a reported shootout with police in Munshiganj in the early hours of Saturday. He was Mohammad Tajel, 36, son of Din Islam Khorshed, convicted...
The 6th Trade & Investment Working Committee Meeting was organized by Business Initiative Leading Development (BUILD) and the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) recently at the conference room of MOC Bangladesh...
Dhaka has requested Kuala Lumpur to extend the time frame for sending the workers who were in the process of going to Malaysia before imposing restrictions. The Malaysian government stopped...
Police arrested a young man over an allegation of posting a distorted photo of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on social media site Facebook. The detainee was identified as Swapan Mandal,...
A man was killed in a road accident while saving a child by pushing him out of path of an oncoming ambulance on Navaran-Satkhira highway at Satmail under Sharsha upazila...
Three people, including a Jubo League leader, were injured in a bomb attack in front of a park of Sharsha upazila in Jashore on Friday night. The injured were identified...
A recent study has identified the information and communication technology (ICT) as the country's most potential service sector for export diversification, thanks to its growing demand across the globe. However,...
With their croplands filled with high yields of seasonal paddy Aman, farmers of Biswanath upazila are passionately taking their last-moment preparations for harvesting the silver crops. Although the farmers have...
Stocks edged lower last week, after remaining flat in the previous week, as investors mostly followed cautious stance ahead of national election. Market insiders said most of investors adopted a...
The Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB) has so far raised Tk 7.50 billion from the issuance of subordinated bonds floated as part of its market supportive measures. The state-run corporation...
A cyclone hit the coast of southern India, killing at least 13 people, damaging homes and forcing the evacuation of more than 80,000 residents on Friday. Cyclone 'Gaja' blew ashore...
The share price of Sonali Aansha Industries continued to soar 'abnormally' in a bearish market, despite having no price sensitive information (PSI). Within eight trading days, the company's share price...
The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) is likely to count huge losses as 894.621 million tonnes of lentil have started rotting in its warehouse, according to a source familiar with...
The CIA believes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday, complicating President Donald Trump's...
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