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Condemning the killing of freedom fighter Abdul Matin in Trishal upazila of Mymensingh, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque on Thursday ordered police to take immediate action to arrest...
Residents of the World Cup host city of Samara are being urged to take showers in pairs because the influx of fans is putting strain on water supplies. The Samara...
Six envoys presented their credentials to President M Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban in the city on Thursday. The envoys present in the credential ceremony were: Ambassadors of Croatia and Venezuela,...
Mobile operators on Thursday said that although the government has reduced the VAT rate over internet use from 15 to 5.0 per cent, it will not help them in reducing...
Garment Workers on Thursday threatened a tougher movement if their demand of fixing minimum wage at Tk 16,000 is not met at the owners’ and workers’ representatives meeting scheduled to...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked members of the President Guard Regiment (PGR) to discharge their responsibilities and maintain the chain of command to achieve their desired goals. The...
A woman working at Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand has been arrested for allegedly selling a 14-day-old baby. Two other women employees from...
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, called for greater international support and solidarity for the nearly one million Rohingya refugees and their Bangladeshi hosts. To date, the UN’s...
Thousands of people watched a film posted in its entirety to YouTube by its US distributor before the apparent mistake was tackled. Sony Pictures Entertainment had labelled the video as...
Customs intelligence and investigation directorate (CIID) officials seized an abandoned posh car from Gulshan area in the capital on Thursday morning. A team of CIID conducted a drive on road...
Real Madrid are considering an offer of about 100m euros (£88m) from Juventus for Cristiano Ronaldo. The 33-year-old Portugal forward is Real's all-time top scorer with 451 goals, reports BBC....
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide Bangladesh with US$ 20 million as loan from its Power System Efficiency Improvement Project and with an additional US$ 25.44 million in grant...
The probe committee, formed by the Health Ministry over the death of three-year-old Raifa Khan at Max Hospital in Chattogram due to 'wrong treatment', found a total of 11 irregularities...
The results of this year's Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations will be published on July 19. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid will hand over the results to...
Telenor Health signed an agreement with Square Hospitals Limited at the latter’s premises in the capital recently. Under the agreement, Square Hospitals will offer exclusive benefits to customers of Tonic,...
The government envisages generating 12 million employment by 2030 through economic zones and high tech parks, speakers at a workshop said yesterday (Wednesday). The workshop titled 'The Development and Cooperation...
Through swift measures to develop East Dhaka, Bangladesh has a unique opportunity to relieve flooding, congestion, and messiness that are clogging the capital's growth and affecting the quality of life...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday assured new ambassador of European Union (EU) of a free, fair and credible general election to be held at the end of this year....
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its 2018 forecast for German GDP growth to 2.2 per cent, saying the rising protectionism and the threat of a hard Brexit had...
Stocks extended their gaining streak for the second day in a row with turnover on the major bourse crossing Tk 9.0 billion-mark, powered by investors buying spree. The market started...
India police investigating the deaths of 11 family members found dead in their home in the capital Delhi say they have recovered CCTV footage which supports a theory of mass...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind and lightning flashes are likely to occur at many places over the country in 24 hours as of 9...
Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Sujan), a civil society platform, has termed the Gazipur city corporation (GCC) election as ‘controlled’ one. The platform said the Election Commission played an unresponsive role during...
Social Welfare Minister Rashed Khan Menon was hospitalised on Thursday following a fall during his morning walk. The Minister sustained injuries in his ‘hip-joint’ as he fell down in front...
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was hospitalised on Thursday morning as he fell sick. He was taken to United Hospital around 8 am, BNP vice-chairman AZM Zahid Hossain...
MEPs are due to vote on major changes to copyright law, which has divided experts and proved controversial. Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney has written to politicians urging them to...
The United States is “opening fire” on the world with its threatened tariffs, China warned on Thursday, saying no one wants a trade war but it will respond the instant...
A father died protecting his children in a rare polar bear attack in Canada’s northernmost territory of Nunavut. Aaron Gibbons, 31, was on Sentry Island, a popular fishing and hunting...
A 4200-kilometre run of the Great Wall undertaken by Fresenius Medical Care to raise public awareness on good kidney health across Asia-Pacific has been concluded this week. Extreme adventurer and...
One of China's biggest technology companies has declared it has begun mass production of a self-driving bus. Baidu made the announcement after building its 100th Apolong vehicle at its factory...
Britain’s biggest carmaker Jaguar Land Rover said a so-called “hard Brexit” would cost it 1.2 billion pounds ($1.59 billion) a year, curtailing its future operations in the United Kingdom. “We...
Downing Street has set out some of the detail of how customs could be handled after Brexit. No 10 says its new plan - dubbed the "facilitated customs arrangement" -...
Long before filming began, actress Evangeline Lilly had an idea of the fighting style she wanted to display with her Marvel superhero character, the Wasp. Lilly, known for her role...
Chinese conglomerate HNA Group Co-Chairman Wang Jian died during a business trip in France on July 3 in what local police said appeared to be an accidental fall from a...
A man and woman found unconscious in Britain's Wiltshire were poisoned by Novichok - the same nerve agent that poisoned ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal, police say. The couple, believed to...
China shares slipped on Thursday ahead of a deadline when tariffs from the US and China are due to be implemented, yuan gave back some of its recent gains against...
Two Dhaka courts have rejected the bail petitions by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in two cases— one for celebrating ‘fake’ birthday and another for undermining the national flag. Dhaka Metropolitan...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested 27 more suspects in Rajshahi on Wednesday and they were sentenced to different terms of jail each by mobile court on charge of drug abuse....
Newly elected mayor of Khulna City Corporation and councillors took oath at a function at Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in Dhaka on Thursday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina administered the oath...
Britain moved a step closer to legalising the medicinal use of cannabis after a report concluded there are benefits for patients as the government reviews the rules to allow drugs...
The value of bilateral trade between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and China increased by 15.1 per cent to reach $52.65 billion US dollars (195 billion dirhams) in 2017, WAM...
Ethiopia has fired senior prison officials hours before the release of a Human Rights Watch report detailing torture and other abuses in one notorious prison and urging the government to...
Parliament has passed a new law with provisions of fines of Tk 20,000 for offences such as begging, drunkenness and urination in public in cantonments. The other offences that will...
Oil prices fell on Thursday after US President Donald Trump sent a strident tweet demanding that OPEC cut prices for crude. The escalating trade row between Washington and Beijing also...
Two people were killed and six others injured when a human hauler (locally known as Votvoti) overturned on Dhamoirhat road at Kokiler Mor in Naogaon district early Thursday. The deceased...
Two suspects in Awami League leader Farhad Hossain murder case was killed in a reported gunfight with detectives in Uttar Badda area in Dhaka early Thursday. The deceased were identified...
Prices of most of the shares on bourses witnessed steep rise in early hour of trading on Thursday as optimistic investors are showing buying appetite on sector-wise stocks. Following the...
Rescuers in Thailand were no closer on Thursday to deciding when and how to extract 12 boys and their football coach from a flooded cave complex, where they were found...
Experts at a seminar on Wednesday called for introducing 'Sukuk' in the country as it can help the Islamic banks mobilise fund while managing liquidity. Sukuk means Islamic securities that...
Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s party could face a $10 million fine for violations of campaign finance rules, the national electoral institute said on Wednesday following the group’s wide-reaching...
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