The Anti-Corruption Commission has been given until Nov 17 to submit its investigation report in a case against former Bangladesh cricket captain Shakib Al Hasan and 14 others over alleged stock ...

The US first built military bases in Greenland during World War Two. During the Cold War, it maintained 17 military installations and more than 10,000 personnel to monitor Soviet forces. Today only ...

A Bangladeshi migrant worker has died in the Maldives less than a year after travelling there in the hope of repaying debts his family had taken on to send him abroad. The deceased was identified as ...

Bangladesh and Turkiye have discussed expanding defence cooperation and investment as part of a broader push for closer economic, political and strategic ties. The issues came up during Prime Minister ...

Bangladesh's FY2027 growth target is 6.5 percent, 2.5 percentage points above ADB's forecast. The interim government's FY2025-26 budget had targeted 5.5 percent growth.

The project will upgrade substations and more than 2,600km of distribution lines as the power network struggles to keep pace with rising demand, ageing infrastructure and technical losses, the ADB ...

The government has raised fares for diesel-powered buses and minibuses by Tk 0.17 per kilometre on routes across Bangladesh, including Dhaka and Chattogram metropolitan areas. The Road Transport and ...

Tom Cruise described his character in "Digger" as "totally outrageous" and unlike any role he had encountered before, speaking at the film's world premiere in London on Tuesday.

Students of the Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) have continued to demand the reinstatement of their vice-chancellor as protests roll into a second day. The students have ...

Thirty-four MPs from Jamaat-e-Islami — about half of the opposition party’s parliamentary contingent — are travelling abroad together, many accompanied by their spouses, on what the opposition party ...

US President Donald Trump is set to host Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington this week, with trade, artificial intelligence and Taiwan among the key issues expected to feature in their talks.

A senior Iranian official told Reuters that Tehran could reopen Hormuz to Gulf shipping within seven days if Washington eased military pressure and lifted its blockade on Iranian ports. The official ...