Global food prices fell by 2.1 per cent in 2024 compared to the average for the previous year, mainly due to declines in cereal and sugar prices, according to the latest report released Friday by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization...
Myanmar鈥檚 embattled junta government on Saturday said it would release almost 6,000 prisoners as part of an annual amnesty to mark the country鈥檚 independence day.
Students led a mass uprising that ousted the Awami League regime led by Sheikh Hasina in the middle of 2024, but the education sector continued to struggle to recover from learning losses faced by the students at all levels.
World food commodity prices declined by 2.1 per cent in 2024 compared to the previous year, the FAO said on Friday, but they remain considerably higher than before the Covid pandemic.
Prime Leaf Processing, a company jointly owned by Singapore, UAE, and India, is set to invest $8.84 million to establish a tobacco processing industry in the BEPZA Economic Zone...
Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, says her body may be weakened from her long imprisonment but she still has a mind of 鈥榮teel鈥�, according to an interview published on Thursday.
The Mass Uprising Special Cell on Wednesday urged the families of the martyrs of the July-August student-led mass uprising and those who were injured in the movement to apply for inclusion in the government list by January 31...
The Bangladesh interim government chief adviser, Professor Muhammad Yunus, on Wednesday launched health card distribution programme for the victims of the student-led mass uprising that ousted the longest-serving Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina on August 5, 2024...
The first-phase final list of those who were martyred or injured during the historic-led mass uprising of July and August 2024 has been published on the official website, accessible at https://medical-info.dghs.gov.bd/public.
Fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah has recorded the highest ever rating points tally achieved by an Indian bowler as he consolidated his position at the top of the ICC Men's Test Bowling Rankings after another successful Test in Melbourne that saw him finish with a nine-wicket match haul.
The interim government has taken an initiative to prepare a declaration of the July mass uprising based on a national consensus, said the chief adviser鈥檚 press secretary, Shafiqul Alam, on Monday.
Indian seamer Jasprit Bumrah unleashed more destructive bowling but Australia stubbornly battled back to reach 228-9 on Sunday, leading by 333 runs in an absorbing fourth Test.
Bangladesh has lately seen an escalation in the fatal mass beating incidents that killed 82 people between August 1 and November 30. Between January 1 and June 30, before the July-August mass uprising, 33 people died in mob beatings.
More than 1,500 prisoners escaped from a Maputo prison on Wednesday, taking advantage of the third day of unrest triggered by the controversial confirmation of the long-ruling Frelimo party as...
India鈥檚 former prime minister Manmohan Singh died on Thursday aged 92 after he was admitted to hospital for an illness, the country鈥檚 leader Narendra Modi said....
Ex-principal secretary to the Prime Minister鈥檚 Office and former National Board of Revenue chairman Nazibur Rahman was sent to jail after end of his three-day remand in connection with killing of...
The revolutionary task of the 鈥榬evolutionary potential鈥� of the 2024 mass uprising is to dismantle Bangladesh鈥檚 authoritarian state structure and establish a new political framework. This is...
The International Crimes Tribunal on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for former Awami League lawmaker Muhammad Saiful Islam and four police officials in connection with crimes against humanity and genocide...
THE loss of vision of a large number of people to police firing during the July-August uprising and the subsequent agony have laid bare the pressing need for prioritising mental health in the...
Venezuelan authorities have set free another 223 prisoners who were arrested during post-election protests, the prosecutor鈥檚 office announced Monday, bringing the total number of protesters released to 956.
Md Arafat, a 12-year-old boy who was shot during the July-August student-led mass uprising, died at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka on Sunday night.
Dhaka has sought return of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India for shelter on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising, through a diplomatic channel.
Azibul Haque Partha, a member of the central convening committee of the National Revolutionary Council, a political party formed by students involved in the July-August mass uprising, was injured after he was stabbed allegedly by two muggers early Sunday....
The Mass Uprising Special Cell on Saturday published the first draft of 858 martyred and 11,551 injured in the student-mass uprising that forced ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina to flee to...
A senior police official on Saturday said that rampant extortion was causing the prices of essentials to rise.
Some leaders of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, who were at the forefront of the July-August student-people uprising that ousted the Awami League regime, are likely to launch a new...
On the morning of August 6, during her frantic search for her adolescent son Sabur, missing since previous noon, Rahen Jannat Ferdousi encountered a rickshaw-van piled with several burnt bodies near Ashulia police station in Savar.聽
The health and family welfare ministry would submit a list of 859 martyrs of the student-led mass uprising to the next cabinet meeting scheduled to be held on Monday.聽
Different organisations on Thursday demonstrated in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country, condemning attacks on and murders of students who participated in the student-led mass uprising in July-August...
A seven-day group exhibition featuring nine photographers is underway at Mirpur in the capital...