DAMASCUS, Oct 21 (AP): The World Bank has projected that reconstructing Syria after more than a decade of civil war will cost around $216 billion, nearly ten times the nation's 2024 GDP.The conflict erupted in 2011 after government crackdowns on...
TEHRAN, Oct 21 (Reuters): Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday rejected an offer of renewed talks from U.S. President Donald Trump and denied his assertion that the United States has destroyed Iran's nuclear capabilities.Tehran and Washington engaged in...
LJUBLJANA, Oct 21 (AFP): French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday said any negotiations regarding Ukraine's territory must be handled only by President Volodymyr Zelensky."No one else can do this. Therefore, it is up to Ukraine to decide for itself and...
PARIS, Oct 21 (Reuters): Nicolas Sarkozy has become the first French ex-president to go to jail, as he starts a five-year sentence for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.Not since World War...
JERUSALEM, Oct 21 (AFP): US Vice President JD Vance landed in Israel on Tuesday to shore up a fragile Gaza ceasefire deal, after President Donald Trump warned Hamas it would be wiped out if it breached the truce.Trump's special envoy...
DUBAI, Oct 21 (Gulf News): Fifteen-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo Jr, currently playing in the youth ranks at Saudi Arabian club Al Nassr, where his father also plays, has been named in a 22-player squad for the upcoming Federations Cup Tournament in...
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Oct 21 (Reuters): South Africa batsman Tristan Stubbs scored an unbeaten 68 to steer his side to 185-4 at stumps on the second day of the second Test against Pakistan on Tuesday, but two late wickets saw the...
Bangladesh leg-spinner Rishad Hossain continued to create records in the ODI format, reports BSS.In Bangladesh's 74-run victory over West Indies in the first match, Rishad returned astonishing figures of 6-35, which was best bowling by a Bangladeshi spinner in ODI...
West Indies defeated Bangladesh via a Super Over in their in their second match at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in the city on Tuesday, report agencies.This result means, the series is leveled 1-1 with one more match to go. The...
MYMENSINGH, Oct 21 (UNB): A trucker and his assistant were killed when a truck slammed into another from behind on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Trishal upazila of Mymensingh district on Tuesday morning.The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
CHUADANGA, Oct 21 (UNB): The bodies of four people, who died allegedly after drinking toxic spirit, were exhumed on Tuesday for autopsy.The bodies were exhumed in presence of assistant commissioner and executive magistrate Nurul Huda Monir from 8:30 pm to...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-10-22 00:00:00
MANIKGANJ, Oct 21: A dilapidated bridge over the Ichamati River at Kusta Purbo Para in Ghior upazila of the district has become a daily nightmare for thousands of people. Built in 2002 at a cost of around Tk1.8 million by...
Salim Afzal Shawon | 2025-10-22 00:00:00
Bangladesh's financial system is facing a paradox that is becoming impossible to ignore. While formal capital markets remain sluggish - with a weak equity market and limited retail participation in corporate bonds and mutual funds - a vibrant, digitally active...
The devastating fire at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport's Cargo Village exposes a grave lack of safety measures and mismanagement in handling hazardous goods. Unlike international airports, Shahjalal's Cargo Village lacks automated fire detection and protection systems. Flammable chemicals, perfumes, sprays,...
Artificial intelligence has slipped into our lives almost unnoticed, yet it's reshaping nearly everything we do. From the moment we wake up and scroll through personalised news feeds to the moment we finish our day's work with AI-generated emails or...
Wasi Ahmed | 2025-10-22 00:00:00
In the absence of studies on the performance of the social safety net programmes (SSNPs), there's a common belief that despite their inherent challenges, they play a significant role in preventing a general decline in poverty rates and supporting specific...
The function of any regulator is to ensure that the stakeholders concerned follow the set of rules that guides their activities and does not fall afoul of it. Also, it holds those breaking the rules to account and, at the...
Khandaker R Zaman | 2025-10-22 00:00:00
I have recently delivered a paper at a seminar organised by the Centre for Bay of Bengal Studies (CBoBS) at Independent University, Bangladesh, where I concluded that there is a severe deficit in maritime education. There is no alternate to...
AFRA NAWMI | 2025-10-22 00:00:00
The Bagerhat is one of the oldest regions of Bengal, established during the medieval period 15th century by Ulugh Khan Jahan. From the very beginning, it was in the hands of Muslims for which provides an aura of ancient Islamic...
SAFRINA KABIR | 2025-10-22 00:00:00
We see big goals and grand resolutions being celebrated all the time. We are obsessed with fitness transformations, career milestones, self-improvements, and all these chase for overnight transformations stop as abruptly as they started. Every January, millions and millions of...
Rain/thunder showers is likely to occur at one or two places over Chattogram division in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Monday), according to the Met Office. Weather may remain mainly dry with partly cloudy sky elsewhere over...
Four more deaths from dengue were reported in the 24 hours until Monday morning, raising the total number of deaths from the mosquito-borne disease to 249 this year, reports UNB.During this period, 942 more patients were hospitalised with viral fever,...
GAZIPUR, Oct 20 (UNB): A polytechnic student was stabbed to death by some miscreants in Tongi of Gazipur district on Sunday night.The deceased was identified as Jahidul Ahsan Jihad, 20, son of Jahangir Alam of Vanganahati area in Sreepur municipality...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Monday arrested one more accused in the Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) student rape case from the city's Diabari area at Uttara, reports BSS.The arrestee, Biplab Rojario, 40, is the second accused in the case,...
RU CORRESPONDENT | 2025-10-21 00:00:00
The newly elected members of the Rajshahi University Central Students' Union (RUCSU) on Monday paid tribute at the grave of Shaheed Dr. Mohammad Shamsuzzoha, a revered teacher who was killed in the 1969 mass uprising.They also paid homage at the...
A full-fledged executive committee of Bangladesh Charu Shilpi Sangsad (BCSS) for the tenure 2025-2027 was announced on Saturday (October 18) with Artist Syed Mohammad Ali Pappu as president and Artist Mizanur Rahman Mizan as general secretary through its council.The committee...
FE REPORT | 2025-10-21 00:00:00
A 13-member delegation of the ‘July warriors’ met with the National Consensus Commission (NCC) on Monday, demanding withdrawal of the cases filed over last Friday's clash that erupted before the signing of the July Charter in front of the parliament....
Major General Abdul Motaleb Sazzad Mahmud, Director General of Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party (Ansar-VDP) and Chairman of Ansar-VDP Unnayan Bank, talking to journalists during a view-exchange meeting with media at the Ansar-VDP Headquarters in the capital on Monday....
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-10-21 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Oct 20: Eminent educationist and renowned student leader of the sixties Professor Shayesta Khan died on Monday.He breathed his last at the age of 80 in a Chattogram clinic at around 5:30 AM. He was suffering from cancer.He left...
A Dhaka court has ordered the filing of a murder case in connection with the death of popular film actor Salman Shah, nearly three decades after his death rocked Bangladesh's entertainment industry, reports bdnews24.com.The order was issued on Monday by...
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