Chinese President Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un met in northeast China yesterday in an unannounced visit by the North Korean leader ahead of an expected summit with US President Donald Trump, reports AFP from Beijing. Shortly after the meeting was made public, Trump tweeted that he would speak to his "friend"…

At least nine people were killed and four others injured by lightning strikes in Sunamganj, Netrakona, Kishoreganj and Habiganj districts yesterday, reports UNB. In Sunamganj, five people were killed and four others injured as they were struck by lightning separately. Nur Hossain, 35, a farmer and son…

Bangladesh Sadharan Chhatra Adhikar Sangrakkhan Parishad, the platform of students demanding quota reforms, resumed protests from yesterday, alleging that the government has not initiated steps to publish a gazette notification by abolishing civil service quotas. The platform announced that it would…

Left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak has been recalled in the preliminary squad as Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) yesterday announced a 31-member Tigers’ preliminary squad for Afghanistan series and the tour of West Indies. Razzak’s name was not in the preliminary squad of the last home series…

The banking sector in Bangladesh has been plagued by financial scams, non-performing loans and weak monitoring problems, which might cause a macroeconomic risk in the near term though Bangladesh is expecting faster growth, says a UN report, reports UNB. In Bangladesh, the report says, robust growth…

Doctors have long raised alarm about the potential health risks of climate change, but it turns out that children are particularly vulnerable, reports CNN from Atlanta. Children are estimated to bear 88% of the burden of disease related to climate change, according to a paper published yesterday in…