NAMES can and do mislead. Especially when they are deployed to disguise betrayal as benevolence. The US Senate has just passed what Donald Trump hails as 鈥榦ne big, beautiful bill鈥� 鈥� a sweeping tax package projected to add $3.7 trillion to the national debt over a decade. Upon narrowly passing the Senate in a 50鈥�50 tie, broken only by the vice president鈥檚 vote...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Friday said that the BNP was committed to restoring democracy in the country.
Discussant at a webinar, titled Iran鈥揑srael War: Implications for South Asia and its Neighbourhood, on Thursday said that Iran-Israel war had unmasked the hypocrisy of western rules-based order...
The purchase of physical assets was eclipsed last year by a surge in investment in intangible items like software, data and AI, the UN said Wednesday, describing a 鈥榝undamental shift in how economies grow and compete鈥�...
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Tuesday fixed August 11 for submitting the investigation report of the much-talked about murder case of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi as the Police Bureau of Investigation could not submit the report...
US president Donald Trump reignited his trade war by threatening more than a dozen countries with higher tariffs Monday鈥攂ut then said he may be flexible on his new August deadline to reach deals...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday began hearing the appeal of Mobarak Hossain, an expelled Awami League leader and a former Jamaat-e-Islami member, challenging his 2014 death sentence for war crimes committed in the Brahmanbaria area during the 1971 Liberation War...
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Monday stressed presenting the true history of War of Independence impartially through the activities of liberation war affairs ministry.
BRICS, representing half the world鈥檚 population and 40 per cent of global economic output, is divided about much, but has found common cause when it comes to mercurial Trump and his tariff wars...
The BRAC Bank-Samakal Literary Award 2023 was announced at a ceremony at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka on Friday.
Bangladesh interim government has dropped the symbolic one-minute internet blackout from the July Commemoration programme, cultural affairs adviser Mostofa Sarwar Farooki said on Thursday.
Dhaka University vice-chancellor Professor Niaz Ahmed Khan on Tuesday said that the historic events of the Language Movement in 1952, the mass uprising in 1969, the War of Independence in 1971, the anti-autocracy movement in 1990s and the 2024 student-mass uprising complemented each other...
Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are spending billions to recruit top artificial intelligence talent, triggering debates about whether the aggressive hiring spree will pay off in the competitive generative AI race...
State media images showed leader Kim Jong Un honouring the flag-draped coffins of North Korean soldiers killed helping Russia fight Ukraine, as Seoul鈥檚 defence ministry said Tuesday it saw no signs of further troop deployments yet...
BANGLADESH has, as Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System data suggest, the highest rate of death by lightning strike in South Asia. Whilst more than 3.3 million lightning strikes happen in Bangladesh every year, the rate of death by strikes remains at 1.21 per 1,000 square kilometres, with India trailing by 0.86 and Nepal by 0.62. Records show that 270 people...
Sarwar Ali has been appointed as the new president of Chhayanaut, one of Bangladesh鈥檚 most prominent cultural organisations, three months after the passing of the cultural activist Sanjida Khatun...
THE Chinese embassy in Moscow recently published a list of 30 countries the United States has bombed since World War II 鈥� framing it as evidence of American aggression cloaked in the rhetoric of democracy and human rights. A full rebuttal to this sweeping indictment is beyond the scope and space of this article. Instead, this piece aims to offer an objective analysis...
The head of a prestigious US public university resigned Friday amid pressure over his alleged failure to curb diversity programmes, the latest salvo in the Trump administration鈥檚 war on academia...
North Korea will send more troops to Russia to assist in its war against Ukraine, possibly as early as July, a South Korean lawmaker said Thursday, citing information from Seoul鈥檚 spy agency...
THE Middle East is teetering on the edge of a full-scale regional war after the US military, in coordination with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, launched strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in Isfahan, Natanz and Fordo on June 21. Iran鈥檚 swift retaliation, declaring US positions and citizens in the region as legitimate targets, culminated in an attack on a US...
Apex Footwear Ltd has been recognised for the second time in a row at the Retail Asia Awards 2025, held recently at Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre in Singapore, says a press release.
Seven Circle (Bangladesh) Limited, producer of Seven Rings Cement, has won 鈥楪reen Factory Award 2025,鈥� said a press release...
X Ceramics Group has won 鈥楪reen Factory Award 2025,鈥� said a press release...
Mirzapore Tea Garden and Zareen Tea Garden, both under Ispahani Group, have won 鈥楪reen Factory Award 2025鈥� in tea category, said a press release...
Walton Hi-Tech Industries PLC on Tuesday received 鈥楪reen Factory Award-2025鈥� in electrical and electronics product manufacturing category, said a press release...