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Thirty-three pregnant Cambodian women who were carrying babies on behalf of Chinese clients have been discovered during a raid on an illegal commercial surrogacy operation, police said on Saturday. Five...
Malaysia has suspended the only system used to hire Bangladeshi workers after allegations surfaced that a Bangladeshi businessman with prestigious ‘Datuk Seri’ title was using it to make billions of...
The academic activities of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) will resume on Sunday after Eid-ul-Fitr and summer vacation. Ishfaqul Hossain, registrar of the university, said that the academic...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is set to provide US$300 million to state-run Bangladesh Infrastructure Finance Fund Limited (BIFFL) to catalyse long-term infrastructure project finance. The BIFFL will borrow the...
President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to escalate a trade war with Europe by imposing a 20 per cent tariff on all US imports of European Union-assembled cars. Trump posted...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested 20 people on charge of using narcotics in Rajshahi on Friday. On a tip-off, a team of the elite anti-crime force conducted raids in different...
Another suspected drug trader was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Mahmudpur field in municipality area of Sirajganj district early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Jahangir Hossain,...
The "life fund" of all the 32 life insurers shrank by nearly 6.0 per cent in calendar year 2017, revealed a report. The financial institutions division under the finance ministry...
The number of women workers leaving for Saudi Arabia for jobs has increased in recent months despite the fact that workplace abuse has forced many to return home. A total...
The automation and reform initiatives of the Bangladesh Railway (BR) have faced a setback due to large-scale anomalies in implementation of the project concerned and shortage of required manpower, insiders...
The jail authorities are facing hardship to accommodate an increasing number of inmates, placing strains on its limited budget, officials said. This leads to financial constraints, while making it difficult...
The country's agriculture sector is witnessing a sluggish growth in recent years and it is inadequate to propel the targeted GDP growth, experts warned at a seminar in the capital...
At least 33 people were killed and 105 others injured in road accidents in eight districts on Saturday. Among the victims, 16 were killed in Gaibandha, six in Rangpur, two...
Nigeria defeated Iceland 2-0 in their Group D match on Friday to register their first win in this year’s World Cup in Russia. Ahmed Musa scored both goals for the...
Sohagi Jahan Tonu was known by those close to her as a typical nineteen year old who fashioned the hijab as much as she embraced culture. The discovery of her...
As is well-known, the period referred to by the governments worldwide for accounting and budgeting purposes is called fiscal, financial or budget year. It is the accounting year of a...
Dhaka and Chittagong nowadays are not alone in going through the ordeal of waterlogging. With urban development taking place under no well formulated plan, newer cities and towns are falling...
SINGAPORE, June 21 (Reuters): Singapore Airlines Ltd said on Thursday it expected to transfer some jets from its SilkAir regional airline to budget carrier Scoot allowing it to compete more...
If this World Cup was being seen as Russia's opportunity to open up to the international community, Chinese businesses have been quick to grab the global platform to sell their...
Despite performing reasonably well in different economic indicators, the country still lags behind in a few critical areas like foreign direct investment (FDI). The inflow of FDI in the country...
The banking sector in Bangladesh - the lifeline of the economy - got a jolt in recent months. The root relates to the scams in Sonali and BASIC banks. The...
Whom would you trust more, Russian President Vladimir Putin or Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel? Whereas Putin is reveling in the attention that Russia is receiving as host of the 2018...
Cases related to abuses and harassments of Bangladeshi female migrant workers in the Middle East (ME), especially in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), have marked a significant rise in...
The United States told the World Trade Organisation on Friday that appeals rulings can be vetoed if they take longer than the allowed 90 days. US Ambassador to WTO Dennis...
If a nation forces its children to be workers, its future is bleak as children are in fact the future of a nation. Keeping this maxim in view the International...
Eurozone countries have agreed a long-awaited debt relief deal for Greece, which has been hailed as "historic". The deal gives Athens more time to repay €96.9 billion (£85b) worth of...
US President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 20 per cent tariff on all European Union (EU)-assembled cars coming into the United States. The threat came a month after the...
Venezuelan security forces have carried out hundreds of arbitrary killings under the guise of fighting crime, the UN's human rights body said on Friday. In a report, it cites "shocking"...
Awami League has nominated AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, Badar Uddin Kamran and Serniabat Sadeq Abdullah to contest Rajshahi, Sylhet Barishal city corporation elections respectively. The ruling party finalised the nominations at...
Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury has urged scientists to invent ways to ensure the availability of fruits all over the year. The minister said around 60 per cent of the fruits...
The ‘National Fruit Tree Planting Fortnight’ and ‘National Fruit Exhibition-2018’ began at the AKM Giasuddin Milky Auditorium at the capital’s Farmgate area on Friday. Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel...
Philippe Coutinho and Neymar bailed Brazil out with stoppage-time strikes against Costa Rica following another uninspiring display at the 2018 World Cup. Coach Tite's team were heading for a second...
At least four people were killed and many injured as a bus tumbled into a roadside ditch on Chattogram- Rangamati road at Dhalarmukh in Raozan upazila on Friday. The identities...
There is something very distinct about the air over India and the surrounding countries in South Asia. It is the presence of formaldehyde - a colourless gas that is naturally...
Cannabis plants have been found growing in the grounds of a Japanese parliamentary building in Tokyo. The country has a strict no-tolerance policy towards drugs and possession of even a...
The two students, who had gone missing in the Bay of Bengal while swimming in Bashbaria beach under Sitakunda upazila on Thursday, were found dead on Friday afternoon. The deceased...
Women in Saudi Arabia will start driving cars for the first time ever from Sunday as a decades-old ban ends on the day. The interior ministry of the conservative Muslim...
When bank technicians in India were finally summoned to investigate why an ATM (automated teller machine) had not been working for days, they began to smell a rat. What they...
Egypt will formally protest to FIFA about the performance of Paraguay referee Enrique Caceres whose decisions they feel prejudiced the outcome of their World Cup game against hosts Russia in...
China will build a railway connecting the western region of Tibet with Nepal, the China Daily reported on Friday. The move is one of several bilateral deals signed during Nepali...
Charles Krauthammer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and pundit who helped shape and occasionally dissented from the conservative movement as he evolved from “Great Society” Democrat to Iraq War cheerleader to...
The Pentagon has been asked to supply up to 20,000 beds at old military bases for migrant children held after illegally entering the US, officials have said. Beds will be...
Italy says it will seize two migrant rescue ships in the Mediterranean, citing doubts over their legal status. Italian authorities said the Lifeline and Seefuchs, operated by the German migrant...
BNP leader Moudud Ahmed has said Awami League will certainly feel the necessity of dialogue. Referring to a statement of AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader, Moudud said: "You will certainly...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested a bus driver and his helper along with 2401 Yaba tablets from Rupnagar area in the capital on Friday morning....
The annual conference of the deputy commissioners (DCs), a meeting of the heads of districts with policy makers of the government, will be held in the capital city on July...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader sees no necessity of dialogue with BNP ahead of the next parliament election. “BNP missed the ‘train’ of dialogue by rejecting the proposal before...
Congolese opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba, whose war crimes convictions were quashed last month, is expected to return to Congo next month for a party congress to select a candidate for...
Total number of Bangladeshis who have been granted Permanent Resident (PR) status in Canada has been declining for the last couple of years. Canadian official statistics showed that in 2015...
Akon says he's planning to release a new cryptocurrency named after himself - called Akoin. Speaking at the Cannes Lions Festival on Monday, the Locked Up singer said he believed...
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