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BRISBANE : Madison Keys said Saturday that she was trying to embrace the extra pressure that comes with starting the year's first Grand Slam as defending champion. The American pulled off a shock in the Australian Open final last year...

CARACAS : Loud explosions, accompanied by sounds resembling aircraft flyovers, were heard in Caracas around 2:00 am (0600 GMT) Saturday, an AFP journalist reported. The explosions come as US President Donald Trump, who has deployed a navy task force to...

TEHRAN : A member of an Iranian paramilitary force was killed during a demonstration in the country's west, the Mehr news agency reported on Saturday, the seventh day of economic protests that have expanded to include political demands. "Ali Azizi,...

WEST PALM BEACH : President Donald Trump said Saturday that US forces had captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro after launching a "large scale strike" on the South American country. "The United States of America has successfully carried out a large...

DHAKA : The Election Commission (EC) has urged voters to strictly protect the secrecy of postal ballots, cautioning that sharing any information, images, or videos of their vote or ballot on social media constitutes a punishable offence under the...

DHAKA : The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has registered some 131,000 new Value Added Tax (VAT) entities across the country in December as part of a special nationwide VAT registration campaign. The NBR observed VAT Day on December 10...

DHAKA : Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have expressed condolences to Bangladesh over the death of former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia, praying for divine mercy and extending sympathies to...

Rosatom has completed the manufacture and commissioning of the first reactor core for ‘Rossiya’, the lead nuclear icebreaker of the next-generation “Leader” project (Project 10510). The fuel for the reactor was produced by the Machine Manufacturing Plant, part of...

The recent armed conflicts in Darfur, Sudan, the Gaza Strip, and in the Democratic Republic of Congo have highlighted the fate of children caught in such armed conflicts.  In addition to the children deliberately massacred or caught in the...

Grameenphone, the country’s number one telecommunications services provider, has introduced Wi-Fi Calling using Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) technology, marking a new milestone in the nation’s digital connectivity journey, a press release said. With the introduction of Wi-Fi Calling, Grameenphone customers...