Over 9.67-lakh tonnes onion yield expected in Rajshahi Div

Farmers and agriculturists expect production of more than 9.67 lakh tonnes of onion from 79,985 hectares of land in the region including its vast Barind tract during the current rabi season. They also hoped that the advanced variety of onion, cultivated on around 4,060 hectares of land...

The man behind China’s detention of 1 million Muslims

After bloody race riots rocked China’s far west a decade ago, the ruling Communist Party turned to a rare figure in their ranks to restore order: a Han Chinese official fluent in Uighur, the language of the local Turkic Muslim minority...

K-Pop artist Goo Hara found dead at home

South Korean singer and actress Goo Hara has been found dead at her home in Seoul, police say. The 28-year-old is best known as a former member of the K-Pop group Kara, which she joined in 2008...

Dhaka again ranks worst in Air Quality Index

Bangladesh’s capital city was ranked the worst in Air Quality Index (AQI) on Monday morning. Dhaka had a score of 242 at 8am, which means the air quality was ‘very unhealthy’. India’s Delhi, Pakistan’s Lahore and Mongolia’s Ulaanbaatar occupied the next three slots with scores of 211, 198 and 198 respectively...

Assange ‘could die in jail without urgent care,’ say doctors

Julian Assange could die in prison without urgent medical treatment, according to an open letter signed by more than 60 doctors who say the WikiLeaks founder is suffering from physical and psychological problems, including depression...

US Navy chief Richard Spencer fired over Seal case

US Defence Secretary Mark Esper has fired Navy chief Richard Spencer over his handling of the case of a Navy Seal demoted for misconduct. The case of Edward Gallagher, who was convicted for posing with a corpse, had sparked tensions between President Donald Trump and military officials...

Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant: Financing, pricing and evaluation

Bangladesh signed the United Nations’ nuclear disarmament treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on 27 September 2017...

Need more open spaces for kids: Radwan Mujib

Trustee of Centre for Research and Information (CRI) and Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s grandson Radwan Mujib Siddiq stressed more open spaces here for children to increase their scope of games and keep them healthy...

Cornered Tigers suffer innings defeat in first pink-ball Test

Bangladesh lost the second Test of two-match series against India by an innings and 46 runs on Sunday at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata...

Never had desire to enter politics, says Modi

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said he never had the desire to enter politics but he now tries to put in his best efforts to serve the people...

Govt to implement 2nd perspective plan for developed Bangladesh: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said her government will implement the 20-year-long second perspective plan to transform Bangladesh into a developed and prosperous country in South Asia by 2041...

18 dead following plane crash in eastern DR Congo

Eighteen people have died after a plane crashed into a densely populated neighbourhood in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo shortly after taking off this morning...

Rainbow brings ‘All-rounder Exterior’ paints

Rainbow Paints, popular paint brand of RFL Group, has introduced All-rounder exterior paints with a view to providing highest quality paints to its customers...

PM hands 3 fire resistant jumbo cushions to fire service

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today handed over three ultra-modern German made fire resistant jumbo cushions to fire service authorities to use those in rescue operations in fire incidents...

Traffic in capital returns to normalcy

Traffic in capital Dhaka has returned to normalcy after Bangladesh Transport Workers' Federation on Saturday night declared that they will not go to any movement over the Road Transport Act to June 30 next year...

137 women killed by their partners in France this year

Actor Kala Aziz passes away

National Film Award winner actor Kala Aziz passed away on Saturday night. He was 65. He breathed his last at his residence at 10am. He left behind two sons and many well-wishers to mourn his death...

Three killed in wild elephant attacks

GP asked to pay Tk 2000cr to BTRC

Mobile phone operator Grameenphone has been asked to pay Tk 200 crore, out of 12,579.95 crore dues, to Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC). The full bench of the Appellate Division led by chief justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order...

Bangladeshi expatriate in Lebanon killed in road crash