Taliban: Afghanistan bank boss warns sector near collapse

Afghanistan's banking system is near to collapse, the boss of one of the nation's biggest lenders has told the BBC...

North Korea fires missile, says South’s military

North Korea has fired a short-range missile towards the sea off its east coast early on Tuesday, said South Korea's military...

PM Hasina’s 75th birthday celebrated

The 75th birthday of Prime Minister and Bangladesh Awami League President Sheikh Hasina was celebrated across the country on Tuesday. Sheikh Hasina, the eldest among the five children of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, was born at Tungipara...

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3 killed as bus hits auto-rickshaw

Three people were killed and five others injured in a road accident in Habiganj on Monday. The incident took place on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Andiura in Madhabpur upazila of the district around 1:30pm...

England’s Moeen Ali retires from Test cricket

England all-rounder Moeen Ali on Monday announced he was retiring from Test cricket to focus on his white-ball career, saying the format's "intensity can be too much sometimes"...

Myanmar air strikes reported in battle, internet cut in more areas

Myanmar’s military launched air strikes at the weekend after clashes with fighters opposed to the junta in the Sagaing region, according to media and a militia member, as phone lines and the internet were also severed in some districts...

Strong quake rattles Greek island of Crete; 1 dead

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 struck the southern Greek island of Crete Monday morning, killing one person and injuring several more, authorities said...

SSC exams to start from Nov 14, HSC from Dec 2

The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations will be held from November 14. Besides, The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations will also be held from December 2...

Taliban ban Helmand barbers from trimming beards

The Taliban have banned hairdressers in Afghanistan's Helmand province from shaving or trimming beards, saying it breaches their interpretation of Islamic law...

Kabul int’l airport now ready for int'l flights: Official

The Kabul International Airport is now fully operational for international flights and all airliners can resume airlifts...

German elections: Centre-left narrowly wins against Merkel’s party

Germany's centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) have narrowly won the country's federal elections, beating the party of outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to preliminary results...

Murder of husband: Woman, 'lover' get life

A court in Dinajpur on Sunday sentenced a woman and her so-called lover to life in jail for the murder of her husband...

242 more hospitalized with dengue fever in 24 hrs

As many as 242 people with dengue fever were admitted to different hospitals in and outside the capital in the last 24 hours until Sunday morning...

Bangladesh to vaccinate 80 lakh people marking PM’s birthday

Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque on Sunday said Bangladesh has set a target of inoculating 80 lakh people on September 28 across the country on the occasion of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's birthday...

Court indicts ex-state minister Mannan, wife

A court in Dhaka on Sunday framed charges against former State Minister for Housing and Public Workers Abdul Mannan and his wife Hasina Sultana in cases filed for allegedly amassing wealth illegally...

Govt records lowest Covid-19 deaths after 4 months

Bangladesh reported 21 deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours, hitting the lowest fatalities after four months. With this, the country's coronavirus deaths stood at 27,414, the health directorate said in a press release on Sunday. Earlier on May 26, 17 people were reported to have died of COVID-19...

Price fall in large-cap drives stocks down

Stocks on Sunday witnessed a downward trend due mainly to price fall in large-cap securities...

Joel Coen's Macbeth: pure and somber

Without his brother Ethan, but with cinema heavyweights Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, American director Joel Coen took up the challenge of adapting Macbeth, producing a sleek film that remains true to Shakespeare's great text...

PSG win without Messi ahead of Man City showdown

Lionel Messi was again sidelined for Paris Saint-Germain and in the Argentine's absence it was Idrissa Gana Gueye and Julian Draxler who scored as the Ligue 1 leaders beat Montpellier 2-0 on Saturday...