Israel hammered Gaza City and its outskirts overnight, residents said Thursday, as the military announced it had taken initial steps in its push to capture Hamas鈥檚 last major stronghold...
The committee formed to investigate looting of stones from Sadapathar, a popular tourist destination at Companiganj in Sylhet, submitted its report to the Sylhet deputy commissioner office on Wednesday...
The first-year students of Presidency University鈥檚 Computer Science and Engineering Department have captured attention with their ingenuity, dedication, and technical prowess...
Bangladesh Bank has relaxed its Internal Credit Risk Rating System (ICRRS) guidelines for banks, allowing them to approve, renew, or adjust loans for borrowers with an 鈥榰nacceptable鈥� credit rating...
Switzerland and Austria said Tuesday that they would host Russian president Vladimir Putin if he came for talks on peace in Ukraine, despite the International Criminal Court鈥檚 arrest warrant...
A row between Israel and France over Paris鈥檚 plan to recognise a Palestinian state next month escalated to crisis level on Tuesday when prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused president Emmanuel Macron of fomenting 鈥榓ntisemitism鈥�...
The Bangladesh Prabashi Adhikar Parishad on Tuesday demanded the recognition of the contributions of expatriates to the 2024 July uprising and their political inclusion in the July National Charter...
Palestinian ambassador to Bangladesh Yousef SY Ramadan paid a courtesy call on Dhaka University vice-chancellor Professor Niaz Ahmed Khan at the latter鈥檚 office in the capital on Tuesday...
AT THIS decisive moment in Bangladesh鈥檚 strategic course, a new vector has been set 鈥� one not drawn on land, but charted across the sea. In a nationally televised address, chief adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus signalled a maritime turn of historic magnitude. His proposition 鈥� that Bangladesh will 鈥榤ake the world our neighbour鈥� by turning decisively towards the sea...
WHEN most European countries and Volodymyr Zelensky were praying together with American neocons for the collapse of Vladimir Putin鈥檚 Alaska summit with Donald Trump, India was vocal in hoping for its success. The Indian idea was laudable, only the argument was a tad self-regarding. If the talks ended on a positive note, assorted Indian analysts reasoned, the...
Nearly 2.80 lakh cubic feet of stones looted from different places in Sylhet were recovered in drives from Monday night to Tuesday morning...
While the public outcry over the widespread looting of white stones from Sadapathar, a popular tourist destination at Companiganj in Sylhet, is still on, a group of unscrupulous people continues looting stones from two spots of bordering Jaintapur and Kanaighat upazilas in the district...
Rights group Amnesty International on Monday accused Israel of enacting a 鈥榙eliberate policy鈥� of starvation in Gaza, as the United Nations and aid groups warn of famine in the Palestinian territory...
The government on Monday withdrew Sylhet deputy commissioner Muhammad Sher Mahbub Murad amid widespread controversy over illegal stone extraction in the northeastern district.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chair Tarique Rahman on Sunday called on people from all walks of life to unite in support of free, fair, and transparent elections, saying that establishing an accountable state was essential for upholding democracy and protecting freedoms of the citizens...
Palestine ambassador to Bangladesh Yousef SY Ramadan on Sunday expressed his profound gratitude to the people of Bangladesh for their continued support to the people of his country...
The 25th annual general meeting of Takaful Islami Insurance PLC was held on Saturday virtually by using digital platform...
US president Donald Trump handed Vladimir Putin a special item at their Alaska summit: a letter written by his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, pleading for the Russian leader to make peace in the name of children...
The Palestine ambassador to Bangladesh, Yousef SY Ramadan, on Sunday expressed his profound gratitude to the people of Bangladesh for their continued support to the people of his country.
Demonstrators took to the streets across Israel Sunday calling for an end to the war in Gaza and a deal to release hostages still held by militants, as the military prepares a new offensive...
Leaders of Palestine Solidarity Committee, Bangladesh on Saturday protested against Israel鈥檚 recent decision to occupy Gaza and called on an immediate end to aggression and mass killings in Palestine.聽..
Russian president Vladimir Putin on Saturday said he discussed ways of ending the conflict in Ukraine 鈥榦n a fair basis鈥� at his meeting with US president Donald Trump...
US president Donald Trump on Saturday shifted his campaign to halt the Ukraine war to securing a full peace agreement after a summit with Russia鈥檚 president Vladimir Putin failed to secure a ceasefire...
Air Canada cancelled hundreds of flights Saturday as it began shutting down operations in response to a strike by flight attendants鈥攖riggering summer travel chaos for its 130,000 daily passengers...
The 26th annual general meeting (AGM) of Shari`ah-based Standard Bank PLC was held at Police Convention Hall on Eskaton Garden Road at Ramna in Dhaka on Thursday...
IT WAS astonishing to read about the death of Ahmad Saeed Tazazaa (20 years old) on August 3, 2025, inside Israel鈥檚 Magiddo prison. Just months earlier, reports emerged that Israeli forces had killed another Palestinian prisoner in Megiddo, Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmad (16 years old), on March 24. Both young men, boys really, had been picked up from the...
A young Palestinian woman with severe wasting who was flown from Gaza to Italy this week for treatment has died, the hospital said on Saturday...
A case has been filed with Companiganj police station against 1,500 unidentified people for their suspected involvement in looting stones from the Sadapathar tourist spot in the Bholaganj area under Companiganj upazila in Sylhet...
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin made no breakthrough on Ukraine at their high-stakes summit on Friday, pointing to areas of agreement and rekindling a friendship but offering no news on a ceasefire...
The UN human rights office said Friday that at least 1,760 Palestinians had been killed while seeking aid in Gaza since late May, a jump of several hundred since its last published figure at the beginning of August...
