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Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman dismissed remarks by Donald Trump in which the US president said he had warned the king he would not last in power “for...
The country's real estate business is expecting a boom-time due to a possible rise in demand fuelled by home loans for public servants at single digit interest rates. Stable political...
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has taken up the second project besides the existing one for Dhaka-Mawa road upgrade after the Planning Commission (PC) refused to revise the costlier...
India has suddenly slapped a ban on import of edible oil from Bangladesh, much to the concern of Bangladeshi exporters, officials and businessmen said. According to the officials, the Directorate...
Dhaka city corporations are ready to hand over the capital's traffic signal system to Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) by June 2019 after completing a project for signal automation that started...
Thousands of Bangladeshi workers have returned home from Saudi Arabia after losing their jobs in recent months, sources said. Many others are in panic of being redundant. The Kingdom of...
Arsenal enjoyed a 3-0 win in Azerbaijan against Qarabag in the Europa League on Thursday and AC Milan beat Greece's Olympiakos Piraeus 3-1 but Sevilla suffered a shock defeat by...
European Union ministers debated on Friday what to offer the United States to ease trade tensions and avoid a return to a tit-for-tat tariff conflict that could hit EU cars,...
Afghan officials have reacted angrily to speculation that foreign military contractors could take over training and advising the Afghan armed forces, following a renewed push by the founder of private...
The children of freedom fighters (FF) on Friday suspended their blockade programme for twelve hours for the convocation ceremony of Dhaka University (DU) to be held on Saturday morning. The...
Growth in the global trade is likely to be slower in the current year and the trend may continue in the next year. Escalation of trade tensions coupled with a...
Bangladesh has been performing well on the economic front, if not on the political front, over the past decade, growing at more than 7.0 per cent on an average. The...
The news about the country's first ever village super market in Khulna makes a lot of sense. A long-felt need, this facility is meant to benefit agri-business in general and...
No one should overestimate economists' powers of understanding. Just as the magnitude of the global downturn that began in mid-2008 took most economists completely by surprise, so did the sclerotic...
What is it that the International Cricket Council or ICC and the Asian Cricket Council or ACC, the guardians of international cricket, have against Bangladesh cricket? And do they realise...
According to the Emergency Events Database of the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium, more than 2.2 million people have been killed since 1950 by flooding in three countries -...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the countrymen will give befitting reply to BNP, if they try to create anarchy centring the forthcoming parliamentary polls. “They (BNP) should...
Stanley Kubrick's classic 1964 film Dr. Strangelove delivers an eerily accurate depiction of the absurd logic and catastrophic risks of US and Russian Cold War nuclear deterrence strategy, but for...
That social media works contrary to its name and is creating a generation that is with it but totally aloof from interaction is a foregone conclusion. Physicians and psychologists are...
Among the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, SDG 13 has crucial implications for the human race as a whole. It stipulates that climate change is now affecting...
Digital technologies are likely to bring down trade costs and boost trade significantly, especially in services and for developing countries. Four type of technologies — the Internet of Things, artificial...
AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, newly elected mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC), took his mayoral charge for the second time on Friday. Liton, who got a victory in RCC mayoral election...
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda on Friday said electronic voting machines (EVMs) will be used in the next general election on a small scale if the Representation of...
A man surrendered to police on Friday after killing his wife in Fatullah of Narayanganj. The deceased was identified as Arefin Rani Akhter, 23, wife of Mehedi Hasan, 30, of...
An airstrike by security forces killed four people and wounded eight others who were part of a wedding procession in the southeast province of Kandahar, officials said on Friday. Abdul...
President Abdul Hamid will join the largest-ever convocation of Dhaka University (DU) on Saturday. The convocation will begin at the DU central playground at 11:30am but the graduates have been...
Former Arsenal midfielder Santi Cazorla scored a 96th-minute equaliser for Villarreal on Thursday in the Europa League - his first goal since a serious Achilles injury. Cazorla converted a penalty...
A touch-sensitive robotic finger that can be attached to smartphones has been developed by a researcher in France. The MobiLimb finger can crawl across the desk, waggle for attention when...
A union parishad member of Gopalganj has alleged misappropriated old age allowance in Kotalipara upazila. A written complaint was lodged with the upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) on Thursday in this...
Leader of the opposition in the Pakistan national assembly Shahbaz Sharif was arrested on Friday in a corruption case. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) of Pakistan arrested the former Punjab...
In the third floor hallway of the Pentagon, just outside the Army Chief of Staff's office, there is a pigeon. Walking the corridors, the lifelike pigeon stands out among the...
An airstrike by security forces killed four people and wounded eight others who were part of a wedding procession in the southeast province of Kandahar, officials said on Friday. Abdul...
A British man has died after being bitten by a sea snake on a fishing trawler in Australia, police have said. The man, 23, had just pulled up a net...
Regularly eating foods like sausages and bacon may raise the risk of breast cancer, according to researchers. A review of studies found women who ate high levels of processed meat...
French police have reportedly started an investigation after Meng Hongwei, the chief of the Interpol, was reported missing. Meng Hongwei, a former Chinese government minister, was reported missing after travelling...
Customs officials recovered 332 kilograms of Ethiopian cannabis from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Thursday. Preventive team of the Dhaka Customs House recovered 17 cartoons packed with the banned...
Two figures, Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Iraqi Yazidi activist Nadia Murad, have won the Nobel Peace Prize of this year for their contributions to combating sexual violence against women...
Russia signed a deal with India to supply five regiments of S-400 anti-aircraft missiles to India, Interfax news agency quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Friday. The contract...
A truck driver was stabbed to death by miscreants in sadar upazila of Jhenaidah. The deceased was identified as Manirul Islam, 32, a truck driver and son of Najir Biswas....
A court in Jhenaidah convicted two people and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for possessing drugs. The convicts were identified as Harunur Rashid, son of Abdul Goni of Jashore...
Pressure built on Cristiano Ronaldo from his sponsors after Nike joined EA Sports in expressing its deep concern with the rape allegation facing the soccer star. The five-time world player...
General Motors Co’s Cadillac outscored industry rivals in a new ranking of partially automated driving systems tested by Consumer Reports and released on Thursday. The highly influential non-profit organisation, which...
A new method of analysing images from CT scans can predict which patients are at risk of a heart attack years before it occurs, researchers say. The technology, developed by...
The jobless rate in United States is expected to fall to an 18-year low of 3.8 per cent as the economy likely created jobs at a brisk clip in September,...
About 320 people were injured when a packed train travelling from South Africa’s business hub Johannesburg to the capital Pretoria crashed into the back of a stationary train, Metrorail authorities...
Japan’s household spending jumped in August as bigger bonuses boosted consumption, suggesting that robust domestic demand could help offset the ill effects of escalating trade frictions. The spending in the...
The government is constructing 139 multi-storied buildings in Cox’s Bazar to rehabilitate over 4,400 poor families who are victims of climate-induced disasters, such as cyclone, river erosion and landslides under...
London aluminium held steady on Friday as worries over an alumina shortage stoked expectations of cost inflation, sending prices towards the biggest weekly gain in nearly six months. London Metal...
A five-day film festival titled 'Dhaka Korean Film Festival 2018' will begin in the capital city Dhaka on October 12. The opening ceremony of the film festival, to be hosted...
A Seoul court on Friday jailed former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak for 15 years for corruption, making him the latest in a string of high-profile political and business leaders...
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