A group of UN experts tasked with monitoring a global treaty on discrimination against women has requested an exceptional report from the government of Myanmar on the situation of Rohingya women and girls from northern Rakhine. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)…

Farmers Bank has sought permission from the central bank to issue bonds worth Tk. 500 crore to tide over a liquidity crisis. The bank’s new board…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the main construction work of the much-awaited Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP), taking the country to…

The left-leaning parties will be staging an eight-hour hartal starting from 6am today to protest the recent power price hike. Ganatantrik Bam Morcha, Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and Socialist Party of Bangladesh (BSD) jointly called the hartal on November 23. Meanwhile, BNP has extended its…

North Korea says it has successfully tested a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that can reach the whole of continental United States,…

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda yesterday said arrangement of snap election depends on the government decision, reports UNB. "It is government…

Mumbai cafe owner Boman Kohinoor, arguably India’s biggest fan of the British royal family, wants Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to honeymoon in India and have lots of children, reports AFP from Mumbai. The 95-year-old, who met Harry’s older brother William and wife Catherine when the royal…