Chengdu: US leaves consulate amid row with China

American diplomatic staff have left their consulate in the Chinese city of Chengdu, after a 72-hour deadline expired. China ordered the closure in response to the US closing the Chinese consulate in Houston, Texas, last week...

Coronavirus: Vietnam alarm after first cases in months

Vietnam has closed the city of Da Nang to tourists after four new locally transmitted coronavirus were recorded, the country's first since April...

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance becomes world’s No. 2 energy company

Reliance Industries, controlled by Asia's richest man, toppled ExxonMobil Corporation to become the world's largest energy company after Saudi Aramco, as investors piled into the conglomerate lured by the Indian firm's digital and retail forays...

AL MP Israfil Alam dies following Covid-19 infection

Md Israfil Alam, an Awami League MP from Naogaon-6 constituency, died at a hospital in the capital on Monday following Coronavirus infection. He was 54. The AL MP was undergoing treatment at Square Hospitals with breathing problems where he breathed his last around 6:20am....

Stay ready to tackle any situation if flood lingers: PM

Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked her party leaders and workers to remain prepared to tackle any situation if the ongoing flood is lingered. “This year’s flood may be prolonged. The 1998 deluge lasted for the longest period of 69 days, while the 1988 flooding was for two weeks,” she said, reports BSS...

City Bank MD tests positive for Covid-19

Masrur Arefin, managing director of the City Bank Ltd, has been infected with novel coronavirus, the bank said on Sunday...

Bill Clinton pushed 'appeasement' of Serbs after Srebrenica massacre

The US president, with one eye on re-election, urged Bosnia’s Muslim-led government to make territorial concessions in 1995, declassified documents reveal...

The Short-Lived Visionary Entrepreneur in TECH World

Notable author Mandy Hale said, “There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.”...

How the pandemic has shrunk the Big, Fat Indian wedding

JS body recommends closure of all parks till Oct

The parliamentary standing committee on Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has recommended the government to close all parks, including Lawachhara national park, until October. The Jatiya Sangsad body made the suggestion aims to protect environment and biodiversity, and prevent crowd to develop forest resources...

Biman resumes flight to Kuwait from Aug 4

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has decided to reopen its flight operation to Kuwait from August 4 as well as increase flight frequency on Dubai route from now on to weekly five flights from existing three...

Online apps reshaping cattle markets ahead of Eid

With the occasion of sacrifice -- Eid-ul-Azha -- only days away, cattle markets have sprung across the country both in traditional and digital ways but the turnout of buyers is still low apparently fearing the transmission of coronavirus...

Tunisia interior minister named new PM

Tunisia's Interior Minister Hichem Mechichi has been appointed to form the next government, the president's office said, amid political tensions among major parties in the North African country...

Dozens of Rohingya migrants feared drowned off Malaysia coast

A Rohingya migrant is feared to be the only survivor from a boat carrying at least two dozen asylum seekers that is believed to have run into difficulty off the Malaysian coast near Thailand, a coastguard official said on Sunday...

M'singh senior jail superintendent dies of Covid-19

Md Abu Zahed, senior jail superintendent of Mymensingh Central Jail, has died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus...

Major blow to Spain as UK orders quarantine

Travellers arriving in the UK from Spain must now quarantine for 14 days, under new coronavirus travel rules, reports BBC...

Food, work shortage hits Kurigram flood victims hard

People in the flood affected areas in Kurigram are complaining of shortage of food and government assistance as they struggle to survive and worry over a bleak future...

Coronavirus: 54 die, 2275 infected, 1792 recover in 24 hours

The death toll from coronavirus has reached 2,928 as 54 more people died from the disease in the last 24 hours. Besides, 2,275 more have been infected with the virus, raising the number of such cases to 223,453. Professor Nasima Sultana, ADG of the Directorate General of Health Services, said this during a press briefing on Sunday...

Ranga removed, Bablu new JaPa secretary general

Jatiya Party (JaPa) Chairman GM Quader has made party co-chairman Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu its secretary general removing Moshiur Rahman Ranga from the post...

Rawhide prices fixed

The government has fixed the price of raw cowhide ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha at Tk 35-40 per square foot in the capital and Tk 28-32 outside Dhaka...