Takaful Islami Insurance holds board meeting
Takaful Islami Insurance PLC on Tuesday held its 144th meeting of board of directors, said a press release...
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Two killed, three injured in mob beating
At least two people were killed and three others injured in separate mob beating incidents in Gazipur and Jashore districts on Tuesday...
Feni flood may worsen as low likely over Bay
Seven rivers in the Chattogram division might rapidly swell between July 25 and 27, with two potentially crossing their danger marks, triggering flash flooding in Feni, warned the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre on Tuesday...
Making concentration camp Gaza
THE odious idea of a camp within a camp. The Gaza Strip, with an even greater concentration of Palestinian civilian life within an ever-shrinking stretch of territory. These are the proposals ventured by the Israeli government even as the official Palestinian death toll marches upwards to 60,000. They envisage the placement of some 600,000 displaced and houseless...
Youth festival held at BRRI
A tree planting campaign was organised and saplings were distributed among the youth as part of the youth festival at the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute in Gazipur on Monday...
Malnutrition reaches new heights in Gaza, children most affected
As malnutrition surges in war-torn Gaza, tens of thousands of children and women require urgent treatment, according to the UN, while aid enters the blockaded Palestinian territory at a trickle...
Scuffle on stage at London opera as performer unfurls Palestinian flag
London鈥檚 Royal Opera House on Sunday condemned as 鈥榳holly inappropriate鈥� the actions of a performer who held up a Palestinian flag onstage at the end of a performance...
Israeli fire kills 57 aid seekers in Gaza
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd of Palestinians waiting to collect humanitarian aid in the territory鈥檚 north on Sunday, killing 57 people and wounding dozens more...
Putin meets Khamenei鈥檚 top adviser for nuclear talks
Russian president Vladimir Putin held a surprise meeting with Ali Larijani, top adviser to Iran鈥檚 supreme leader on nuclear issues, to discuss Tehran鈥檚 nuclear programme in the Kremlin on Sunday...
MBL holds 26th AGM
Mercantile Bank PLC on Sunday held its 26th annual general meeting in a hybrid manner at its head office, said a press release...
UK police arrest over 100 Palestine Action supporters
UK police arrested over 100 people in London and other cities for supporting Palestine Action in a third consecutive weekend of protests over the government's decision to ban the activist group using anti-terror laws....
Israel鈥檚 enduring pursuit of Palestinian disunity
ISRAEL is aggressively implementing plans to shape Palestine鈥檚 future and the broader region, sculpting its vision for the 鈥榙ay after鈥� its genocide in Gaza...
Platini scares off burglar at his French villa
Football legend Michel Platini disturbed a burglar at his villa in the south of France on Friday, a source close to the police investigation told AFP.
Peoples Insurance gets 鈥楢AA鈥� credit rating
Credit Rating Information and Services Limited has assigned 鈥楢AA鈥� credit rating to Peoples Insurance Company Limited, said a press release...
Atletico agree deal for Argentina international Almada
Spanish football club Atletico Madrid announced Tuesday an agreement with Brazilian outfit Botafogo to sign 2022 World Cup winner Thiago Almada.
Shooting federation finally gets ad-hoc committee
The National Sports Council on Wednesday announced a new 19-member ad-hoc committee of the Bangladesh Shooting Federation after dissolving the previous executive body.
Four northern dists on flood alert
Low-lying areas in four northern districts may get flooded due to heavy to very heavy rainfall by today, according to the Flood Forecasting and Warning Center鈥檚 special bulletin issued Tuesday afternoon...
BSTI signs MoU with Russian GOST R
A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution and Russia鈥檚 Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology to enhance cooperation in national standards development and quality control...
DESCO holds 508th board meeting
Dhaka Electric Supply Company Limited on Monday held its 508th board meeting, said a press release...
West Bank seeing largest displacement since 1967: UN
The UN warned Tuesday that mass displacement in the West Bank had hit levels not seen since the start of Israel鈥檚 occupation of the Palestinian territory nearly 60 years ago.
US will send Ukraine Patriot air defence systems: Trump
President Donald Trump on Sunday said the United States would send Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine to help it fight off a Russian invasion, as his relations with Russian president Vladimir Putin soured...
Rivals remember founder together
Leaders of Jatiya Party on Monday at a commemoration meeting said that the role of the party founder, Hussain Muhammad Ershad, would be remembered for his contribution to building a developed Bangladesh...
National Halal Lab, Helmet Testing Lab inaugurated
Industries adviser Adilur Rahman Khan on Monday inaugurated National Halal Laboratory equipped with international standard gadgets at Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution...
Monsoor鈥檚 art contemplates abstract in nature
Muhammad Monsoor Kazee engages his art to discover and explore the abstract in nature through non-representational forms of shapes, lines, textures and colours. His paintings are expressions of his inner realities accrued through his experience in nature, says the artist...
Russia slams report it backed 鈥榸ero enrichment鈥� Iran N-deal
Russia鈥檚 foreign affairs ministry on Sunday described reports claiming that president Vladimir Putin had encouraged his Iranian ally to accept a 鈥榸ero enrichment鈥� agreement on its nuclear programme as 鈥榙efamation鈥�...
Argentina appeals US court order to hand over YPF shares
Argentina lodged an appeal Thursday after a US court ordered the South American nation to sell its majority stake in oil firm YPF, at the heart of a long-running nationalisation dispute...
Club World Cup proves it is imperfect but here to stay
The first edition of the expanded Club World Cup wraps up this weekend with FIFA president Gianni Infantino already hailing it as a huge success while the world of football faces up to the idea that an imperfect tournament is here to stay.
RUET holds training on firefighting, earthquake
The Institutional Quality Assurance Cell of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology held training and drilling titled 鈥榃hat to do during firefighting and earthquakes鈥� at the RUET on Saturday...
Infantino hails Club World Cup as 'world's most successful competition'
FIFA president Gianni Infantino triumphantly declared the Club World Cup to be 鈥榯he most successful club competition in the world鈥� Saturday ahead of this weekend's final between Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea.
UN talks on Israel, Palestine solution set for late July
An international conference meant to revive work on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been rescheduled for July 28-29, diplomatic sources told AFP...