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A bus carrying Hindu pilgrims plunged into a river in western India after smashing through a bridge railing, killing 12 and injuring another three, police said on Saturday. The accident...
Riverside homes and businesses in France’s capital Paris are on high alert as the swollen River Seine threatens to overflow its banks. Some basements in the city have already sprung...
Aung San Suu Kyi remains Myanmar’s best hope for change, veteran US mediator Bill Richardson said on Friday, days after he got into a fight with the Nobel laureate and...
Smokers need to quit cigarettes rather than cut back on them to significantly lower their risk of heart disease and stroke, a large BMJ study suggests. People who smoked even...
A total of 13 tigers have been killed by people in one and a half decades in Bangladesh. During the period, around 265 people were killed in tiger attacks in...
The Canadian pharmaceutical billionaire couple found dead at their home in Toronto on Dec 15, were murdered in a targeted killing, police investigators said. Police in their first detailed comments...
US stocks ended on record high on Friday on the latest round of strong earnings reports, including results from Intel and AbbVie, as well as continued weakness in the dollar....
French President Emmanuel Macron called on Friday for further European Union sanctions on Venezuela, days after the 28-nation bloc agreed a travel ban and asset freezes on seven senior Venezuelan...
Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, detained in the kingdom’s sweeping crackdown on corruption, said on Saturday that he expected to be cleared of any wrongdoing and be released...
Due to delay in executing new VAT law for two years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked the government about its impacts on revenue collection over the budgetary target,...
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has asked the commerce ministry to take necessary steps to be a self-sufficient Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API)-producing country aiming to reduce dependency on large-scale import...
A regulatory move to expand microcredit operations through 37 poorer districts looks frustrated, primarily as newly licensed NGOs-MFIs couldn't deliver, sources said.The microcredit regulatory authority (MRA) took the initiative in...
Shipping companies that connect Bangladesh with the outer world now look Far East for their fortunes especially as China as an economic superpower spurs the fastest international trade growth. Explaining...
North Korea on Saturday condemned the latest US sanctions announced this week aiming to curb the isolated nation's development nuclear weapons. The US sanctions are "a manifestation of heinous intention...
Cutter master Mustafizur Rahman has become the 1st Bangladesh bowler to get fastest 50 wickets in ODI cricket and jointly 13th in the world along five others. He recorded the...
Ambassador Sheikh Mohammed Belal, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons), proposed to provide capacity building measures for the development of the countries....
The largest of three French prison guard unions spearheading a nationwide strike said on Friday it would accept a government proposal on better pay and staff safety. The UFAP-Unsa union...
Members of US and Iraqi joint force mistakenly killed eight people and wounded 10 others when they engaged in a clash with local police and paramilitary tribal fighters in Iraq's...
Apple is reportedly working on a new iPhone, which will be similar to the iPhone SE, and will support wireless charging. According to Digitimes Research analyst Luke Lin, the company...
An explosion hit an area of the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday near many foreign embassies and government buildings, Reuters reporters heard. It was not immediately clear whether there were...
Telenor has received inbound and unsolicited interest for its Central and Eastern Europe portfolio consisting of the mobile operations in Hungary, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Serbia. With a view...
IPDC Finance Limited has recently distributed blankets & nebulizers amongst underprivileged people in Rajarhat, Kurigram in association with Terre des Hommes (TDH). Mahmudur Rahman, Branch Manager of IPDC Finance Limited,...
The remaining directors of the US gymnastics governing body are resigning in the wake of this week’s sentencing of the former national team doctor for molesting female athletes, USA Gymnastics...
US President Donald Trump took his “America First” message to the world’s elite on Friday, telling a summit of business and political leaders that the United States would “no longer...
Mercantile Bank Training Institute organised a day-long workshop on ‘Cross Selling of Retail Products’ at Bank’s Training Institute in the city recently. Sales Executives (SSEs & DSEs) working at different...
Chandpur Palli Bidyut Samity (CPBS-1) has brought a total of 154 houses of two villages under Kachua upazila of Chandpur under rural electrification network recently. Former home minister Dr Mohiuddin...
Mutual Trust Bank Ltd. (MTB) held its Annual Business Conference 2018 (MABC 2018) Saturday at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC), Dhaka, said a statement. The programme was attended by...
Residents in the South African city of Cape Town have been warned to "save water as if your life depends on it" to avoid the supply being shut off. A...
The US gross domestic product (GDP) grew at a 2.6 per cent annual rate in the fourth quarter (Q4), compared to 3.2 per cent in the third quarter, the Commerce...
Oscar-winning Casey Affleck, who has been accused of sexual harassment by female crew members on an earlier film, has withdrawn as a presenter at the 2018 Academy Awards, a spokeswoman...
Vila, one of the world's oldest gorillas has died at San Diego Zoo Safari Park in California in the United States. The park says, just three months after celebrating her...
After four years, Biman Bangladesh Airlines holds its marketing conference today(Sunday) aiming to carry out a mid-term review of overall sales performance, which was negative in the last six months,...
The government has initiated a move to develop the country's e-commerce business in conformity with international standard, an official said. The ministry of commerce (MoC) has formed a committee headed...
Two motorcyclists were killed when a bus ran over their vehicle on Chittagong- Cox's Bazar highway at Kagojipara in Patia upazila on Saturday morning. One of the deceased was identified...
After a one-hour disruption due to thick fog, ferry services on Paturia-Daulatdia route in the Padma River resumed on Saturday morning. Sources said, “The ferry services were disrupted from 8am...
A bomb hidden in an ambulance killed at least 95 people and wounded about 158 in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Saturday when it blew up at a police checkpoint...
Sri Lanka lost all wickets to score 221 runs against Bangladesh in the final of the Tri-nation series at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Saturday. The Sri Lankan...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled on Sunday to inaugurate the main construction work of Matarbari 1,200MW coal-based power plant’ via video conference from Ganabhaban. The Japan International Cooperation Agency,...
Nine organisations allied with the Bangladesh Chhatra League have called on the administration to release a probe report into campus clashes within 24 hours. The incident had involved a BCL...
The Human Rights Watch has called on the Bangladesh government to take urgent steps to confirm the whereabouts and release of men held by its security authorities outside the authority...
Twelve personalities have been named as recipients of the Bangla Academy Sahitya Puraskar 2017 for their outstanding contributions to their respective field of literature. Director General of Bangla Academy Shamsuzzaman...
Ganoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain has urged police not to work for any specific political party during the next general election. "Bangladesh police have water lily (Shapla), the national emblem,...
President Donald Trump has said he “deeply respects” the people of Africa in the wake of his reported “s***hole countries” comments. The US president said this in a letter to...
Passengers in bus cut dejected figures as they remained stuck in heavy gridlock near the Nilkhet-New Market intersection in the city on Saturday when students of seven colleges affiliated with...
A group of investors has urged 160 major retailers to back the renewal of an agreement which promotes the safety of millions of workers in garment factories in the country....
President Abdul Hamid on Saturday sought further support from Indonesia in solving the prevailing Rohingya crisis. A Bangabhaban spokesman said this when visiting Indonesian President Joko Widodo paid a pre-dinner...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) will rein in its tax exemption provision in a bid to extend it only in case of utmost necessity, said its chief. "We will...
A youth was killed by some miscreants in a mosque where he took shelter on Thursday evening at Jashaldia village in Lawhajong upazila. The deceased was 26, son of Hasen...
BOGRA, Jan 24: Boro paddy growers from different villages are worried for as severe cold like situation have damaged many seedbeds in the district. According to the Department of Agriculture...
SYLHET, Jan 25: Farmers of greater Sylhet region have been passing busy time for cultivation of different Rabi crops, including vegetable of all types and others. So far, crops on...
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