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The high-level meeting of ‘Alliance of Universities in Ashulia’, comprising private universities in the Ashulia region, was held today at the meeting room of the permanent campus of Manarat International University in Ashulia, a press release said. The meeting was...

RABAT : Morocco coach Walid Regragui said Sunday he would continue to be "very careful" with star man Achraf Hakimi at the Africa Cup of Nations as the Paris Saint-Germain full-back recovers from an ankle injury. Regragui suggested on the...

MANCHESTER : Arsenal held off Manchester City to stay top of the Premier League at Christmas courtesy of a Viktor Gyokeres penalty in the 1-0 win at Everton. Liverpool cashed in on nine-man Tottenham's lack of composure to extend their...

MOUNT MAUNGANUI : New Zealand crushed West Indies by 323 runs on Monday to win the third Test at Mount Maunganui and seal a 2-0 series victory, with Jacob Duffy's five-wicket haul proving crucial. The hosts set a target of...

TOKYO : A Japanese regional assembly backed a plan on Monday to restart the world's biggest nuclear plant for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, taking it a step closer to resumption. The move came after Niigata prefecture...

MOSCOW : A car bomb killed a senior Russian general in southern Moscow on Monday morning, the latest high-profile army figure to be blown up in a blast that came just hours after Russian and Ukrainian delegates held separate...

bKash has organised a two-day long seminar to boost skills of all employees engaged in Anti Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML&CFT) compliance functions. The theme of this half-yearly seminar was “Strengthening AML&CFT Frameworks in Cyber...

JERUSALEM : Israeli bulldozers tore through a four-storey residential building in east Jerusalem on Monday, displacing scores of Palestinians in what activists said was the largest such demolition in the area this year. The building, located in the Silwan neighbourhood...

DHAKA : Commerce Adviser Sk. Bashir Uddin today said that the draft of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between Bangladesh and Japan has been finalised and is scheduled to be signed next month. “This will be Bangladesh’s first-ever economic partnership...

Nagad has received the Excellence in Business Payout award from Eastern Bank Limited (EBL), one of the country’s leading private commercial banks. Under this initiative, the bank honored 40 partner merchant organisations for their significant contributions to the bank’s...