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...
Tolerant behaviour and understanding of elephant habits could significantly reduce human-elephant conflict in areas where wild elephants frequently roam, experts and local people said at a workshop held in Chattogram鈥檚 Lohagara upazila on Tuesday morning...
Bangladesh forward Sagorika was resolute in her determination to make a strong comeback following a three-match suspension, and she certainly made her mark by scoring four goals against Nepal to secure the SAFF Under-20 Women鈥檚 Championship title...
Britain and 24 Western allies, including Australia, Canada, France and Italy, declared on Monday that the war in Gaza 鈥榤ust end now鈥�, arguing that civilians鈥� suffering had 鈥榬eached new depths鈥�...
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC) has been recognised with two prestigious accolades in the Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2025, being named the Best Bank for Sustainable Finance and the Best Bank for Large Corporates in Bangladesh...
Several Islamist and other political parties joining the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami鈥檚 rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital on Saturday called for unity among the Islamist parties towards introducing Islamist rule in the country...
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...
China鈥檚 economy expanded more than five per cent in the second quarter, official data showed Tuesday, buoyed by strong exports but analysts warned that more work was needed to address sluggish consumer demand...
Berger Paints Bangladesh Limited and Unilever Bangladesh Limited have been recognised at the 鈥楽DG Brand Champion Awards 2025,鈥� said a press release...
Walton has won three accolades at the third edition of 鈥楽DG Brand Champion Awards-2025,鈥� said a press release...
Today is the fifth anniversary of the death of Shajahan Siraj, one of the key organisers of Bangladesh鈥檚 War of Independence...
Try as it might to appease President Donald Trump, Canada remains a prized target in his trade wars and subject to the whiplash of his changes of heart...
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...