A pangolin, locally known as 鈥榖anarui鈥�, and also a critically endangered species of mammal animals, was caught in a fisherman鈥檚 net in Tanguar Haor at Tahirpur upazila in Sunamganj on Wednesday evening.
Bangladesh on Wednesday launched its first-ever commercial mango export to China, a milestone that commerce adviser Sk Bashir Uddin described as a direct outcome of chief adviser Muhammad Yunus鈥檚 recent landmark visit to Beijing...
Bangladesh is going to export mango to China for the first time on May 28 next, agriculture secretary Mohammad Emdad Ullah Mian said on Wednesday.
Mango farmers in Chapainawabganj on Tuesday sought help from the Export Promotion Bureau to boost business operations, said a press release...
NON-GOVERNMENTAL organisations, once defined by a spirit of solidarity and service, are undergoing a quiet transformation. What began as a sector rooted in volunteerism and rights-based development is now becoming increasingly entangled in financial markets. Many NGOs, particularly in the Global South, are shifting from grant-based programming to...
The long wait for mango lovers is over as the mango harvesting season officially began in Rajshahi on Thursday with the collection of early guti varieties from orchards across the city and nearby upazilas.
Juicy and delicious fruit mango of Satkhira has started appearing in the local markets on Monday...
Summer fruits 鈥� mangoes and litchis 鈥� are adorning storerooms of Badamtoli in the capital鈥檚 part...
Bangladesh is going to witness a bumper production and export of delicious summer fruit mango in this season as some 2,05,034 hectares of land will be brought under mango cultivation eying for a record production target of 27 lakh tonnes...
At least 143 people died and dozens more went missing after a boat carrying fuel caught fire and capsized in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said Friday...
THEATRE group Prangonemor was forced to reschedule its production of Shesher Kabita after Mahila Samiti Mancha, the venue the group booked, had cancelled the event on threat from a group that identified it as 鈥榯awhidi janata.鈥� The threat, received on April 12, included warning of vandalism. Only after public protests by the group did the police and venue officials respond...
Theatre group Prangonemor on Sunday rescheduled its production titled 鈥楽hesher Kabita鈥� after they had received a threat from 鈥楾awhidi Janata鈥�.
The UN condemned on Friday the widespread rape of children in conflict-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where thousands were reportedly subjected to sexual violence in the first two months of 2025.
China will import mango, guava and jackfruit from Bangladesh.
A male and a female, workers of a non-governmental organisation were allegedly tied up and tortured after getting picked up by a group of stalkers after collecting loan instalments at Chandina in Cumilla on Monday...
At least 35 people were killed when pro-government militia attacked a village in the restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local and security sources said on Friday.
At least 23 people were killed and about 20 taken hostage this week in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by a group linked to Islamic State, local sources told AFP Friday.
Violence raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 鈥榤ore than 7,000 compatriots鈥�, many of them civilians, since last month, the Congolese premier said Monday.
Around 42,000 people have fled the conflict raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and crossed into Burundi in the past two weeks, the United Nations said Friday....
The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has committed 鈥榮ummary executions鈥� of children in Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said Tuesday.
The UK government on Sunday warned that a growing offensive by Rwandan-backed fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo risked sparking 鈥榓 wider regional conflict鈥�.
UN chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday demanded that the Democratic Republic of Congo鈥檚 鈥榯erritorial integrity鈥� be respected and a regional war avoided, at an African summit the day after Rwandan-backed fighters seized a second DRC provincial capital.
The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group were threatening another key town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday as the United Nations warned the risk of violence spreading regionally had 鈥榥ever been higher鈥�.
Rwandan-backed M23 said Thursday it wanted to 鈥榣iberate all of the Congo鈥� in its first public meeting since seizing the eastern city of Goma after deadly clashes, as its fighters advanced towards another regional capital.
Hundreds of Congolese nationals protested on Tuesday at the EU offices in South Africa to demand sanctions against Rwanda over its support for rebels in the turbulent eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
At least 700 people have been killed since Sunday in intense fighting in Goma, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo鈥檚 North Kivu province, a UN spokesman said on Friday.
The UN on Friday voiced alarm at rampant violence in eastern DR Congo, as the M23 armed group moves pushes deeper into the country, warning of summary executions and widespread rapes.
Waterness, an acclaimed dance theatre production directed by Pooja Sengupta, was staged as a special performance by Turongomi at National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Thursday...
Gunshots rang out on Tuesday through parts of the besieged DR Congo city of Goma, where Congolese soldiers have clashed with militia fighters backed by Rwandan troops, while furious protesters attacked embassies in the capital Kinshasa.
Bangladeshi peacekeepers deployed in Democratic Republic of Congo are safe amid the ongoing conflict there, the Inter-Services Public Relations said on Monday....