Indonesia wants more comprehensive economic ties with Bangladesh and looks for fresh investment in prospective areas reducing the existing trade gap between the two Muslim countries, its visiting Foreign Minister Dr Raden Mohammad Marty Muliana Natalegawa said on Thursday.
The United States will extend its support to Bangladesh in participating in the `United Nations’ Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) Program’.
A number of extremist Israeli settlers cut dozens of Palestinian olive trees near Qaryout village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
The Rohingyas in the western Myanmar state of Rakhine, formerly known as Arakan, have again been subjected to a major massacre. The Rohingyas happen to be a Muslim minority living in the Buddhist majority country. They have been victims of…
Dr Sudhirendar Sharma New year resolutions are about doing ‘something’ which is different and better compared to the previous years. Isn’t it? But my new year resolution has been to do ‘nothing’ because I have been made to believe that…
VATICAN CITY — With a puff of white smoke from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and to the cheers of thousands of rain-soaked faithful, a gathering of Catholic cardinals picked a new pope from among their midst on Wednesday…
For all Milan’s excellence in the San Siro, that kind of incision had been absent as stand-in coach Jordi Roura’s team laboured towards a 2-0 defeat in which they uncharacteristically registered only one shot on target.
Barcelona made Champions League history by overturning a two-goal deficit without an away strike to knock out AC Milan and reach the quarter-finals.
Several freshwater turtle and tortoise species are to be afforded greater protection as a result of successful conservation talks at the CITES meeting in Bangkok, Thailand.
Sri Lanka offers special concessions and incentives to Bangladeshi traders interested in availing themselves of the facilities at the newly-built Hambantota Deep Seaport along the southern harbour of the Island country.
A delegation of the Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) left Mumbai on Wednesday to join the ‘Second India Engineering Sourcing Show’.
The government on Wednesday formed a four-member committee to probe the allegation that many children fell sick after taking Vitamin A Plus capsule and de-worming tablets during the countrywide National Vitamin-A Plus campaign on Tuesday.
The Amir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, cancelled his scheduled visit to Bangladesh on March 25.
A Dhaka court on Wednesday ordered that an Executive Engineer of Roads and Highways Department be sent to jail after his surrender in connection with a ‘corruption conspiracy’ involving the Padma bridge.
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said 9,000 more CNG-run auto-rickshaws will join within the next 45 days the fleets of the existing ones plying in Dhaka and Chittagong cities.
The government on Wednesday formed a nine-member committee to find out those making objectionable comments against Islam and Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) using facebook and blog, and take action against them.
Khaleda Zia has protested the arrest of the party’s top leaders from the headquarters, saying this government will not be allowed any more time.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Monday categorically said the government would not cancel the licence of the Grameenphone, a leading mobile-phone operator in the country.
The price of oil fell below $92 per barrel Tuesday as traders absorbed the impact of choppy economic data from China and stock markets showed signs of fatigue after big gains.
Bangladesh’s internationally acclaimed achievements in child, maternal and reproductive health gives it a unique edge to champion the issue of population dynamics in the post-2015 Development Agenda, said UNFPA executive director Dr Babatunde Osotimehin.
The countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal, enforced by BNP-led 18-party alliance, was observed Tuesday amid stray incidents.
Voicing concern over the growing confrontation and violence in the country’s political landscape, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has called upon the top leaders of the two largest parties to shun the confrontational course and start dialogue.
Terming the police raid on BNP office a violent and undemocratic attitude, former president and Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh president AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Tuesday said the government should apologise for the incident.
The face-off between the Ganajagaran Manch and the Hefazate Islam was averted in Chittagong when the AL-supported Sahabagh activists called off their programme of rallies in Chittagong in the face of hartal called by the Hefazate Islam in a bit…
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Tuesday urged all the political forces to quickly resolve the country’s political crisis through discussions showing respect to democratic norms.
Set a 268-run victory target with just one session and 37 overs to go on the fifth and final day, the Tigers finished on 70 for one in 22 overs.
The Cannes Film Festival will kick off this year with a taste of good old Americana after event organisers announced on Tuesday that director Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ will open the festival.
Tropical forests may be less sensitive to global warming than previously thought, argues a new study published in Nature Geoscience.
For several days after being elected in 2005, Pope Benedict – as he chose to be called – spoke as if in shock. At his first public Mass, he asked: “I must assume this enormous task, which truly exceeds all…
US ambassador to Dhaka Dan W Mozena termed the Shahbagh movement a perfect example of realizing demands peacefully.