Headlines

The below is attributable to U.S. Mission Spokesperson Poornima Rai: The U.S. Embassy in Dhaka announced a $235,000 Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) grant to restore the historic Mughal-era Musa Khan Mosque at an event at Dhaka University, further...

A tall glass tower stands in the middle of the city. It shines in the sun. People look at it and feel safe. Money sleeps inside this tower. Dreams also sleep there. A father keeps his savings there for...

Md Maksud, Managing Director of Corona Engineering Limited, and Adnan Md Iqbal, Managing Director of Globe Forwarding and Freight Limited, have been elected unopposed President and Secretary General of the Australia Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ABCCI) for...

E-cigarettes are as harmful to health as conventional cigarettes in the market. Cigarette corporations are spreading this harmful product among teenagers through various attractive campaigns. This is harming the future of the country. The World Health Organization (WHO) has...

Praising the Bangladeshi diaspora living in Italy, Ambassador of Italy in Dhaka Antonio Alessandro has laid emphasis on mobility of creative personalities between Bangladesh and Italy. Antonio Alessandro was speaking at a press conference at his Gulshan residence on Monday...

Schools face growing online safety and peer-harm concerns; Rolling out across 207 British Council Partner Schools in Bangladesh, reaching nearly 50 thousand students  School safeguarding is increasingly shaped by fast-moving, hard-to-detect risks amplified online, including peer-on-peer harm, mental health...

MANILA : The Philippines’ sole oil refinery has secured nearly 2.5 million barrels of Russian crude out of “extreme necessity”, a stock exchange filing revealed Monday, as the country seeks to replenish fast-dwindling fuel reserves, reports BSS. The Philippines has...

TOKYO : Japan’s Nikkei tumbled over five percent in early trade Monday and South Korea’s Kospi was down more than four percent after the price of oil rose again with no end in sight for the war in the...

HONG KONG : Oil prices rallied and stocks tumbled again Monday as the Middle East crisis escalated with the entry of Houthi rebels into the Iran war and investors grew increasingly concerned the United States would send in ground...

In a first for a Bangladesh-based artist, a solo exhibition by Soma Surovi Jannat is being held at the Ashmolean Museum, the UK’s oldest public museum and the University of Oxford’s leading art and archaeology institution. The exhibition opened...