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A powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck the popular tourist island of Lombok in Indonesia on Sunday killing 12 people and sending villagers fleeing from their beds into open fields to...
Agriculture ministers from the G20 countries criticized protectionism in a joint statement on Saturday, and vowed to reform World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, but did not detail what steps they...
Thirty-six years after losing his parents, sister and a four-year-old daughter in one of India’s worst sectarian massacres, Abdul Suban says he is still trying to prove he is a...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said the outlook for Islamic banking and finance in Asia, including Bangladesh is bright given the continent's large Muslim population and growing middle class....
Income tax intelligence and investigation cells across the country have uncovered tax evasion worth Tk 8.71 billion. The two wings of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) have detected the...
Egyptians renewed online criticism of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday, hours after he said he was “saddened” by a similar campaign a few weeks ago. The Twitter hashtag “Leave,...
Bangladesh scored 301 for 6 wickets in stipulated 50 overs riding on a brilliant knock by hard-hitting opener Tamim Iqbal in the third one day international at Basseterre in Saint...
Rajshahi Silk Mills which remained closed for the last 16 years, resumed its experimental production from Friday. Fazley Hossain Badsha, MP of Rajshahi Sadar constituency and senior vice president of...
Our CorrespondentRANGPUR, July 28: A good yield of guava has brought smile on the growers across the district this year.Sources said encouraged by good profit and easy cultivation process farmers...
The recklessness found in people crossing busy roads is on a sharp increase in Dhaka. The city could soon emerge as a byword for habitual jaywalkers as found in many...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ordered for reinvestigating the Barapukuria coal mine scam and bringing the people responsible for the crime to book as quickly as possible. Perusing the...
Meticulous planning, effective organisation, competent leadership and rigorous controls are vital to the execution of any project. These become even more crucial in case of a mega project like the...
A survey has found larvae of Aedes mosquito in 45 per cent houses of Dhanmondi, Kalabagan, Segun Bagicha and ministers' residential area in Minto Road and Hair Road of Dhaka....
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a prominent US cardinal accused of sexually assaulting a teenager nearly 50 years ago. Theodore McCarrick, 88, a former Archbishop of Washington, must...
Prime Minister Theresa May chaired a crisis meeting of her cabinet on July 06 at Chequers, the country residence of the Prime Minister, to reach an agreement on Brexit. The...
July 29, Global Tiger Day comes as a reminder of a crisis: Tiger population in Bangladesh has been on the decline for many years now. And Tiger is an endangered...
July 20 marked the beginning of a state visit that took President Xi Jinping to Senegal, Rwanda, South Africa and Mauritius. President Xi's fourth trip to Africa sheds light on...
Economic divergence among countries and regions was never pre-ordained. According to the late cliometrician Angus Madison and other economic historians, the great divergence between the global North and South, between...
US-Bangla Airlines, one of the leading private airlines in Bangladesh, will operate additional flights in the domestic routes to meet the local demands ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha. From August 17-21,...
The government plans to construct underground rail lines, elevated ring roads and waterways around the capital, aiming to ensure better transport services. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina unveiled the plan on...
Bangladesh got off to a cautious start scoring 37 for 1 in 10 overs in the third one day internationals at Basseterre in Saint Kitts and Nevis on Saturday. Tamim...
Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee President Shahriar Kabir has alleged that former president Ziaur Rahman was an agent of Pakistani intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) prior to joining the Liberation...
At least seven people have died in separate road accidents in Sylhet, Cumilla, Rajshahi and Joypurhat districts. Eight other people were also injured in the accidents that took place on...
An Egyptian zoo has come under criticism after being accused of painting donkeys to make them look like zebras. The zoo in Nasr City has denied the allegation but Mahmoud...
Around 4,000 law enforcers will work for maintaining law and order during the Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) election scheduled for Monday. Of them, 950 members of police, 450 of Rapid...
The electoral campaigns in the three city corporations – Rajshahi, Sylhet and Barishal – is ending formally at Saturday midnight. Joint Secretary of the Election Commission (EC) Secretariat Farhad Ahmmad...
A raging wildfire in Northern California that swelled in size Friday has killed two people and injured at least three firefighters and destroyed around 500 establishments, officials said. Another nearly...
Ten Bangladeshi young change-makers are going to attend the One Young World Summit 2018 at the Hague in Netherlands from October 17 to 20. Like each year, the ten young...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the Badda U-loop (North U-loop) under Hatirjheel integrated development project on Saturday aiming to ease traffic movement. After the inauguration, the Prime Minister toured the...
Stern actions will be taken against the recruiting agencies sending workers to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) through fraudulence. Bangladesh Ambassador in Riyadh Golam Moshi came up with the...
Pakistan’s likely new prime minister Imran Khan is expected to launch coalition talks on Saturday with smaller parties after the electoral commission announced long-delayed full results of an election disputed...
The electricity consumers in the country's northern region may have to experience power cut and low voltage problem until September 10 as the Barapukuria coal mine will not be able...
Two toddlers met tragic deaths after falling into a gutter near their house at Khansama upazila in Dinajpur on Saturday morning. The deceased were identified as 19 month-old Juthi Rani...
The cast for the next Star Wars film has been revealed in a surprise announcement, with a mixture of veteran stars and new faces set to appear, reports BBC. The...
British lawmakers said tech firms like Facebook should be made liable for harmful and misleading material on their websites. Describing the misuse of personal data as crisis in democracy, the...
Actor Orlando Bloom halted a theatre performance of Killer Joe twice on Thursday to ask someone to put her iPad away, according to audience members. Eye-witness accounts on social media...
Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $501.5 million assistance to Bangladesh for implementing the Rupsha 800MW combined cycle power plant project. Out of the total amount, the Manila-based lending agency...
Two workers of a factory were killed and two others severely injured as a covered van hit a roadside shop at Nuritala in Cumilla’s Chandina upazila on Saturday. The identities...
More than 50 families have been evacuated from a hilly at Muhuripara area in Sadar upazila of Cox’s Bazar fearing landslides triggered by incessant rain. Police, Environment Department, Fire Service,...
A killer whale whose calf died on Tuesday shortly after birth has been spotted pushing its body in waters off the west coast of the US and Canada. The mother...
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Asia has been awarded a contract by a public agency to digitise its operational efficiency and accessibility of records via its Document Process Outsourcing Solution. A...
Just two days before the balloting, Jatiya Party on Saturday extended its support for Awami League mayoral candidate Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran in Sylhet city election. The party came up...
More than 100 flights were cancelled in Japan and residents already reeling from deadly floods sand-bagged rivers and prepared for more evacuations as a powerful typhoon neared on Saturday. Typhoon...
Journalist Molla Jalal has been elected the president of a faction of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ). Chief Election Commissioner Alamgir Hossain came up with the announcement at the...
Bangladesh Consul General in New York Sadia Faizunnesa proposed for declaring Eid holidays at the Albany city’s academic institutions on the Muslims greatest celebrations as she called on its mayor...
The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) of the clothing industry of Bangladesh is very high compared to its major global competitors like China, Vietnam and India. A report published in Mint...
At least 37 people have been killed this week as monsoon rains triggered house collapses and flooded wide swaths of land in northern India, officials said Saturday. Weather officials have...
The country’s merchandise export to the United States (US) increased by 2.40 per cent in the past fiscal year, according to the statistics released by Export Promotion Bureau (EPB). It...
Experts and Forest Department officials expect an increase in the number of tigers in Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, as the activities of forest robbers and poachers have decreased....
A case has been filed in connection with crude bomb blast at electioneering office of Awami League candidate Badar Uddin Kamran in Sylhet. Jubo League leader Faruk Ahmed filed the...
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