Registration for getting educational stipends thru Nagad begins
The online registration for receiving scholarships and stipends from the Prime Minister鈥檚 Education Assistance Trust through Nagad began on Tuesday, said a press release...
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Enrichment of uranium non-negotiable, says Iran FM
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Wednesday that Iran鈥檚 enrichment of uranium as part of its nuclear programme was 鈥榥on-negotiable鈥� after US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff called for a halt...
Pakistan FM to visit Dhaka April 27-28
Pakistan鈥檚 deputy prime minister and foreign minister Ishaq Dar is scheduled to come to Bangladesh on April 27 on a two-day visit...
6 killed in clashes in India-administered Kashmir
Four police officers and two suspected rebels have been killed in Indian-administered Kashmir during a drawn-out firefight that also left several police wounded, security forces said.
Seizure of assets of ex-minister Chumki ordered
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Sunday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze five bank accounts of former state minister for women and children affairs Meher Afroz Chumki and confiscate a flat owned by her in the capital Dhaka in connection with a graft case...
UK govt to cut costs by 15pc
UK finance minister Rachel Reeves said Sunday she plans to cut the costs of running government by 15 per cent within four years, as she grapples with strained public finances...
Wary of Moscow, Poland mulls mines treaty exit, plans military training for men
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday announced a slew of measures aimed at boosting his country's defence, including a possible exit from a landmark anti-mines treaty and large-scale military training for men.
Iran's finance minister sacked over soaring inflation, economic woes
鈥楾he most important problem of the country's economy is inflation, and that is chronic inflation, which has plagued our economy for years,鈥� the economy minister added.
Chinese minister meets Myanmar scam centre workers
A Chinese government minister met more than 1,000 alleged scam centre workers on the Thailand-Myanmar border on Monday, Thai media said, as the three countries vowed to crack down on the illicit compounds...
Mauritius police arrest ex-PM in money laundering probe
Police in Mauritius on Sunday arrested the island's former prime minister Pravind Jugnauth in a money-laundering probe and seized stacks of cash in raids on fellow suspects' homes, officials said.
Trump offers top-end jets, trade deal to India in Modi bromance
US President Donald Trump on Thursday offered to sell state-of-the-art fighter jets to India as he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to ramp up trade, rekindling a bond that defies the new US administration's punitive approach to much of the world.
India's Modi builds bromance with Trump, Musk despite trade war
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi met US President Donald Trump -- and billionaire Elon Musk -- at the White House on Thursday, with the two national leaders hailing their close bond despite Trump's expanding global trade war.
EX-MINISTER HOUSE ATTACK: Students hold coffin procession as injured fellow dies
A student who was injured in a counter attack by local people allegedly over attacking on the ousted Awami League government鈥檚 liberation war affairs minister AKM Mozammel Haque on February 7 night, died while undergoing treatment at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital Wednesday afternoon...
Macron courts Modi in quest for geopolitical 鈥榠ndependence鈥�
French president Emmanuel Macron and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi visited southern France with a packed schedule on Wednesday, fostering a relationship that Paris sees as an alternative to great power rivalries...
Bangladesh's ousted PM Hasina ordered protesters鈥� killing, body hiding: UN
The ousted prime minister and Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina, herself ordered security forces to kill protesters and hide their bodies to quell the student-led protests in July 2024 in Bangladesh, according to a report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights...
Trump, real estate and dreams of ethnic cleansing
PRESIDENT Donald J Trump likes teasing out the unmentionable, and the Israel-Palestinian situation was hardly going to be any different. With a touch of horror and the grotesque, he offered a solution to the issue of what would happen to Gaza at the conclusion of hostilities. In a White House press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he...
Starmer urges world leaders to test for HIV
Keir Starmer has urged other world leaders to take an HIV test, after becoming the first serving British prime minister and G7 leader to take a public test on camera...
Anti-Muslim hate speech surges in India
Hate speech in India targeting the country's religious minorities saw a 鈥榮taggering鈥� surge in 2024, a US-based think tank said Monday.
Modi鈥檚 BJP celebrates landslide New Delhi win
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that 鈥榙evelopment had won鈥� as his Hindu nationalist party took back control of the capital province Delhi in local elections...
TRUMP鈥橲 GAZA 鈥楻IVIERA鈥� PROPOSAL: A reckless real estate fantasy
ON FEBRUARY 4, in a press conference alongside Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US president Donald Trump unveiled a plan as audacious as it is alarming: the United States would 鈥榯ake over鈥� the Gaza Strip, forcibly displace its 1.8 million Palestinian residents and redevelop the territory into a luxury enclave he dubbed 鈥榯he Riviera of the...
Dozens of migrants leave Albania after Italian court ruling
Dozens of migrants left Albania in Italian custody on Saturday, after a ruling by judges in Rome struck a fresh blow to prime minister Giorgia Meloni鈥檚 embattled third-country migration centres...
Anisul, Atiqul put on remand again聽
A court has granted a three-day remand for former law minister Anisul Huq and a four-day remand for former Dhaka North City Corporation mayor Atiqul Islam in separate criminal cases linked to the Students鈥� Movement Against Discrimination....
Muslims decry identity attack as Indian state enforces uniform civil code
An Indian state announced Monday it had begun implementing a common civil code to replace religious laws, stoking fear among minority Muslims of a looming nationwide rollout by the Hindu-nationalist ruling party.
Amit Shah vows to evict 'illegal Bangladeshis' in Delhi if BJP wins local polls
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's closest political ally has pledged to rid the capital of 鈥榠llegal鈥� immigrants if his party wins looming elections, in a forceful appeal to his party's Hindu constituency. Interior minister Amit Shah said every unlawful migrant from neighbouring Bangladesh would be expelled from New Delhi 鈥榳ithin two years鈥� if his party succeeded in next month's provincial polls.
Court orders freezing of Hasan Mahmud, family鈥檚 77 bank accounts
The metropolitan sessions judge court on Thursday ordered the authorities concerned to freeze 77 bank accounts of former foreign minister Hasan Mahmud and his family members...
Tulip Siddiq given London flat by ousted Bangladesh PM鈥檚 ally
British city minister Tulip Siddiq was given a central London apartment by a person linked to the Awami League, led by the ousted prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, reports the British newspaper The Financial Times.
ACC sues Anisul for amassing illegal wealth
Anti-Corruption Commission has filed a case against former law minister Anisul Haque on charge of acquiring illegal wealth beyond his known income source....
India鈥檚 ex-PM Manmohan Singh dies aged 92
India鈥檚 former prime minister Manmohan Singh died on Thursday aged 92 after he was admitted to hospital for an illness, the country鈥檚 leader Narendra Modi said....
Ex-PMO principal secretary Nazibur sent to jail after remand
Ex-principal secretary to the Prime Minister鈥檚 Office and former National Board of Revenue chairman Nazibur Rahman was sent to jail after end of his three-day remand in connection with killing of...
Illegal Wealth: ACC sues former minister Sadhan
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed a case against former food minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 25.35 crore...