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Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $4.7 billion in damages to 22 women who alleged that its talc products caused them to develop ovarian cancer. A jury in...
Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh arrived in Dhaka on Friday on a three-day visit to further discuss on how two neighbouring countries can strengthen cooperation in security areas showing zero...
Detectives arrested a suspended assistant sub-inspector (ASI) and two of his associates along with Yaba tablets from Bahaddarhat area in Chattogram on Thursday. The arrestees were identified as ASI Md...
Around 60 per cent of over 250 banks in more than 90 countries are moving towards greater digitalisation, according to the annual survey of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)....
Just hours after a boys football team was rescued from a partly flooded cave in northern Thailand, water rushed back into the mouth of the vast underground cave network, Thai...
Police recovered the bodies of a suspected Yaba trader and a Rohingya man from near Leda Rohingya camp in Nilha of Teknaf upazila on Friday noon. The deceased were identified...
Like developed countries, Bangladesh Railway (BR) would soon wash and clean its coaches automatically leaving the existing manual system outmoded, said officials. They said BR has taken a pilot project...
Authorities dropped the charges against adult film star Stormy Daniels Thursday after she was taken into custody during a performance at a strip club in Ohio, which her lawyer called...
The number of people in need in Cox's Bazar now stands at 1.3 million with 706,364 new Rohingya arrivals since August 25 last year, according to International Organization for Migration...
Journalist Reham Khan, who was briefly married to Imran Khan, has claimed in her autobiography that the cricketer-turned-politician told her that he sired at least five illegitimate children, including “some”...
US President Donald Trump on Thursday tweeted a letter to him from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un heralding "epochal progress" in U.S.-North Korea relations, despite signs that path-finding diplomacy...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to install its own internet-based software in all the commercial banks, aiming to check the growing cases of VAT evasion at source....
The Election Commission has moved to list 40,000 polling stations for 104.2 million voters ahead of the 11th parliamentary election. The EC has already sent it’s approved ‘polling centre policy’...
A junior minister in Prime Minister Theresa May’s government asked Donald Trump: “Where are your manners, Mr President?” after the US leader criticised her Brexit strategy in an interview published...
Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam, both sentenced to lengthy jail terms in absentia, are due to return to Pakistan on Friday in a high-stakes gamble...
Indian shares were nearly flat on Friday while the benchmark BSE index scaled a new peak as retail inflation hit a five-month high in June and stayed above the central...
A woman and her grandson were killed when a train hit them in Dhalatengor area under Kalihati upazila of Tangail district on Friday morning. The deceased are Sufia Begum, 60,...
Archaeologists scanning a Mexican pyramid for damage following September's devastating earthquake have uncovered traces of an ancient temple. The temple is nestled inside the Teopanzolco pyramid in Morelos state, 70km...
The economic growth of Singapore eased in the second quarter (Q2), preliminary data showed on Friday, as manufacturing activity cooled amid the ongoing US-China trade raw. Gross domestic product grew...
Japan’s exports likely grew 7.0 per cent from a year ago, thanks to global demand for semiconductors and electronic parts, a Reuters poll showed. The country is expected to report...
Merchandise export to Canada from Bangladesh crossed $1.10 billion in the past fiscal year. Statistics available with the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) showed that the export reached at $1.118 billion...
The sixth installment of spy movie franchise “Mission: Impossible”, which sees actor Tom Cruise leap from a military plane 25,000 feet above Paris, premiered on Thursday in the French capital....
Apple will launch a $300 million clean energy fund in China, the firm said in a statement on Friday, working with its suppliers to invest in renewable energy projects that...
Tiens Group, a Chinese conglomerate, has chosen Bangladesh as the first country to implement its flagship project ‘One body-Multiple wings'. Under the major investment move, the Tianjin-based company will set...
A newly opened shopping mall on Mexico City's south side partly collapsed Thursday after structural problems led the mall's operators to quickly evacuate the area, and no injuries were reported....
The World Health Organization (WHO) called on Thursday for access to 210,000 displaced people who have fled fighting in southern Syria and are in urgent need of medicines and health...
Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki will make a historic visit to Ethiopia this weekend, cementing a stunning rapprochement with his giant neighbour after a generation of mutual hate and mistrust. The...
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company plans to charge passengers about $200,000 to $300,000 for its first trips into space next year, two people familiar with its plans told Reuters news agency....
Finland will reinstate border controls for travellers from Schengen countries for four days during a summit in Helsinki between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “The aim...
Bangladesh Women’s fairytale run is continuing as they have qualified for World T20 for the third straight time after beating Scotland by 49 runs to set up the final clash...
Peru’s central bank held the benchmark interest rate at 2.75 per cent for the fifth consecutive month on Thursday as expected. Citing recovering inflation and signs of more dynamic economic...
Police recovered the bullet-riddled body of a young man from Chougaccha-Jashore road at Koyarpara in Chougaccha upazila early Friday. The deceased was identified as Ratan, 30, son of Abu Bakkar...
The revised overhead budget for Khan Jahan Ali Airport in Bagerhat district has been reduced from Tk 5.45 billion to Tk 2.17 billion, thanks to shifting the project to a...
US President Donald Trump directly criticised British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit strategy, saying her proposals had probably killed off hope of a US trade deal. Trump also said she...
Gross inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Bangladesh declined by 7.36 per cent in the first 11 months of the past fiscal year (FY 18). Central bank statistics, released...
Bangladesh has achieved a gold medal in International Math Olympiad for the first time ever. Ahmed Zawad Chowdhury, a student from Chittagong Cantonment English School and College attained this glory...
Some 31,221 new voters are likely to exercise their right of franchise in the upcoming Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) election scheduled to be held on July 30. Talking to reporters,...
Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic have met more than any other two men in the Open era - and the pair are ready to finally resume their long-standing rivalry on...
Government has appointed Sajjadul Hassan as the secretary of the Prime Minister’s office (PMO), according to a notification issued by the Ministry of Public Administration on Thursday. Sajjadul Hassan has...
Border fencing, countering cross-border terrorism, and Rohingya issues are likely to dominate the Bangladesh-India home minister-level talks, to be held in the capital on Sunday. Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh...
Japan’s Nikkei surged to 2-1/2-week highs on Friday, helped by a weaker yen and gains from index-heavy stock Fast Retailing after it jumped on the back of strong third-quarter results....
India is set to open a state-of-the-art visa application centre in Dhaka to provide comfortable and integrated visa services to applicants reducing waiting time. The home ministers of India and...
Asian shares are mostly higher, rebounding from jitters over the US-China trade disputes for a second straight day. Japan’s Nikkei 225 jumped 1.3 per cent to 22,483.13 and South Korea’s...
A Dhaka court has sentenced Jashore’s Jhikargacha Upazila Chairman and BNP leader Sabira Sultana to six years in jail for providing false information and amassing illegal wealth. Judge Md Shahidul...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has offered tax exemption facility to three Japanese firms involved in the country's two development projects including metro-rail. The companies will enjoy waiver from...
Bangladeshi workers still find jobs in Malaysia under G2G-plus arrangement amid Malaysian media reports on suspension of the recruitment system, sources said. Malaysia is yet to make any such decision...
A suspected drug pedlar was killed in a reported gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Beguntal in Sadar upazila of Tangail early Friday. The deceased was identified as Afzal,...
Two motorcyclists were killed in a road accident on the Nilphamari-Sayedpur road at Fultala area in the district town on Thursday night. The deceased were identified as Anil Kumar, 23,...
Monno Ceramic Industries, a flagship company of Monno Group, is set to modernise its factory for doubling the production capacity, officials said. As part of the modernisation, the company is...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) will be dropped from the blue chip index DS30 for the company's failure to comply with the membership retaining requirements. The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE)...
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