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Saudi Arabia will let up to 1 million people join the Haj pilgrimage this year, greatly expanding the key event to participants from outside the kingdom after two years of...
About 4000 hectares of standing Boro crops have been submerged so far due to flash flood, causing losses to the tune of Tk 500 million to the farmers in Sunamganj...
Hollywood's film academy on Friday banned Will Smith from attending the Oscars for 10 years after the best actor winner slapped presenter Chris Rock on stage at the Academy Awards...
Edible oil prices remained 6.0-13 per cent higher than the government-fixed rates on Friday as refiners and distributors were yet to supply oils with new price tags, said city grocers....
Foreign organisations in Bangladesh, including UN agencies, are expected to get VAT refund expeditiously as the revenue board's relevant office moves to go digital to end their long wait. Foreign...
Bangladesh is likely to seek US$500 million more in budgetary support from the World Bank at the upcoming IMF-WB spring meeting in Washington, as the government eyes yet a bigger...
If unity is the binding force of this universe, contrast and contradictions are there to lend the balancing act. On the only planet so far known to have hosted life,...
Left-arm spinner Taijul Islam and fast bowler Khaled Ahmed kept South Africa in check on the opening day of the second Test by sharing five wickets between them at Port...
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in an address to the nation on Friday said he accepts the Supreme Court's verdict issued a day ago, according to DAWN. "I am saddened...
As it is getting prolonged, the impact of the Ukraine war on the entire global economy is becoming more pronounced. In fact, in this interconnected and interdependent world, one cannot...
In line with the government's Vision 2041 to turn Bangladesh into a developed country by 2041, it has been setting up privately-run economic zones to expedite the process of industrialisation....
Russia has declared 45 Polish embassy and consulate staff "persona non grata" in retaliation for Warsaw's expulsion of 45 Russian diplomats from Poland. Moscow's foreign ministry gave the information on...
Ukraine said as many as 50 people, including five children, were killed and many more were wounded and lost limbs in a rocket strike at a railway station packed with...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the ruling party will resist any conspiracy hatched against the government. "The Awami League, under the leadership of Bangabandhu daughter Sheikh Hasina,...
Pakistan's parliament will convene on Saturday to vote on removing Imran Khan as prime minister, an official notice said on Friday, potentially cutting short his term as leader. The country's...
Roughly one in 13 people in England, Wales and Scotland had Covid-19 last week, a similar ratio to the previous week, official estimates showed on Friday, according to Reuters. In...
The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, has been recently seen wearing a G-Star pant made by MBM, a Bangladeshi garment factory. UNB says BGMEA feels proud to see apparel made...
ইউক্রেইনে রুশ আগ্রাসনের কারণে খাদ্যশস্য রপ্তানি ব্যাহত হওয়ায় মার্চ মাসে বিশ্বে খাবারের উচ্চমূল্য নতুন রেকর্ড গড়েছে বলে জানিয়েছে জাতিসংঘের খাদ্য ও কৃষি সংস্থা (এফএও)। বিশ্বে গম, উদ্ভিজ্জ তেল, ভুট্টাসহ বেশ...
The holy month of Ramadan has started with a lot of enthusiasm among Muslims across the world. This year, Ramadan is more like one of the pre-pandemic years with no...
Police arrested two farmers during a protest demanding an uninterrupted power supply in Tanore Upazila of Rajshahi on Thursday night. The arrestees are Saleh al Sara,26, of Bangpur village in...
The portion of a country's debt which is collected from the foreign/external parties is termed as external debt of that country. Generally, debt receiving country takes debt from multilateral lending...
Ukrainian citizens will be able to stay in Bangladesh legally and will not have to pay fines after the expiry of their visas amid the war with Russia. The home...
গুচ্ছভুক্ত ৩২টি পাবলিক বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে নতুন শিক্ষাবর্ষের ভর্তি পরীক্ষা শুরু হবে আগামী ৩ সেপ্টেম্বর থেকে। শুক্রবার গুচ্ছ ভর্তি পরীক্ষার তারিখ নির্ধারণে বাংলাদেশ বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় পরিষদের এক সভায় এ সিদ্ধান্ত হয়। খবর বিডিনিউজ...
নেত্রকোণার দুর্গাপুর উপজেলায় এসএসসির প্রস্তুতিমূলক পরীক্ষায় নকল করার প্রতিবাদ করায় দলবল নিয়ে এসে সহপাঠীর মাথা ফাটিয়ে দিয়েছে এক কিশোর। বৃহস্পতিবার বিরিশিরি পি.সি. নল মেমোরিয়াল উচ্চ বিদ্যালয়ে এ ঘটনায় আহত গারো...
Sylhet transport workers will enforce an indefinite strike in the district from Sunday morning demanding the withdrawal of two officials of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority in Sylhet alleging corruption and...
Dean Elgar and Keegan Petersen both made half-centuries to push South Africa to 199-3 against Bangladesh in the second test on Friday. Elgar, the South Africa captain, went for 70...
A 36-year-old man, Koci Selamaj, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 36 years by a court in London on Friday for the murder of a British-Bangladeshi woman,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday called upon the international community to increase their contributions to help some countries, which are still far from vaccination targets, reach the target. "Unfortunately,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has instructed the authorities concerned to take permanent projects to protect haors, said Deputy Minister for Water Resources AKM Enamul Haque Shameem on Friday. "The contribution...
নিত্যপ্রয়োজনীয় দ্রব্যের দাম যখন আকাশচুম্বি সেখানে মাত্র দুই টাকার বিনিময়ে ইফতার সামগ্রী বিক্রি করছে বরগুনার তালতলী উপজেলার একটি ব্যবসাপ্রতিষ্ঠান। শতাধিক দিনমজুর, নিম্নবিত্ত মানুষ সেখান থেকে ইফতার নিচ্ছে। উপজেলার বাঁধঘাট এলাকায়...
যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের পর এবার একই পথ অনুসরণ করে রাশিয়ার প্রেসিডেন্ট ভ্লাদিমির পুতিনের মেয়েদের ওপর নিষেধাজ্ঞা আরোপ করেছে যুক্তরাজ্য।শুক্রবার পুতিনের দুই মেয়ে মারিয়া ভোরোনৎসোভা এবং কাতেরিনা তিখোনোভার সম্পদ জব্দ এবং ভ্রমণ নিষিদ্ধের...
Sri Lanka's finance minister on Friday said that the crisis-hit country must urgently restructure its debt and seek external help, while the main opposition threatened a no-confidence motion and business...
A police committee has found evidence that Constable Nazmul Tareque harassed college teacher Lata Samaddar in Dhaka’s Farmgate for wearing a tip, a traditional adornment.Tareque broke the law and gave...
As many as 997 more diarrhoea patients were admitted to the icddr,b, an international health research institute in Dhaka, in the last 17 hours till 5:00 pm on Friday. AKM...
কপালে টিপ পরা নিয়ে রাজধানীর ফার্মগেট এলাকায় শিক্ষক লতা সমাদ্দারকে হেনস্তা করার অভিযোগের সত্যতা পেয়েছে পুলিশের গঠিত তদন্ত কমিটি। যার বিরুদ্ধে অভিযোগ, সেই পুলিশ কনস্টেবল নাজমুল তারেক যে নিজেই নিয়ম...
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan may announce his resignation to address the nation on Friday evening ahead of a no-confidence vote, according to a political analyst of Pakistan. Following a...
Bangladesh and the United States have discussed steps to promote security and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman had a meeting with Foreign Secretary Masud Bin...
Japan, the world's third-largest coal importer, said on Friday it will ban coal imports from Russia and impose a wide range of additional sanctions, including freezing the assets of two...
More than 39 people were killed and over 87 wounded in a Russian rocket strike on a railway station packed with women, children and elderly evacuees in east Ukraine early...
A member of Pakistan's government denounced on Friday a Supreme Court decision to quash an attempt by Prime Minister Imran Khan to block a no-confidence vote against him, saying the...
US Embassy Dhaka is hosting a photo competition highlighting Earth Day 2022 aiming to raise awareness of the many environmental challenges in Bangladesh. The theme of this year’s earth day...
The European Union on Friday formally adopted its fifth package of sanctions against Russia since the country's Feb 24 invasion of Ukraine, including bans on the import of coal, wood,...
ইউক্রেইনের পূর্বাঞ্চল থেকে বেসামরিকদের নিরাপদ আশ্রয়ে নিয়ে যেতে ব্যবহৃত একটি রেল স্টেশনে দুটি রুশ রকেটের আঘাতে ৩০ জনের বেশি নিহত ও শতাধিক আহত হয়েছে বলে দাবি করেছে ইউক্রেইনের রাষ্ট্রীয় রেল...
Pakistani opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday said his allies have nominated him as the next prime minister if they are able to vote out Prime Minister Imran Khan on...
South Africa won the toss and chose to bat first in the second test against Bangladesh on Friday. The home team also kept an unchanged lineup from its victory in...
Britain added Vladimir Putin's daughters to its sanctions list on Friday, mirroring moves by the United States, in what it said was an effort to target the lifestyles of those...
Authorities will move to increase the prices of onions soon to safeguard the interests of the farmers, Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque has said. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ordered to observe...
World food prices jumped nearly 13 per cent in March to a new record high as the war in Ukraine caused turmoil in markets for staple grains and edible oils,...
Qatar Airways and Airbus clashed in court on Thursday over the fate of billions of dollars of jet orders as their 25-year partnership unravelled in scenes resembling a corporate divorce...
Russia's central bank said on Thursday that due to a "significant change in market conditions" it would buy gold from commercial banks at a negotiated price from April 8. On...
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