Just when the government is almost ready to announce the monthly pay order (MPO) facilities for non-government educational institutions following the MPO Policy 2018, teachers and employees of these institutions have termed the policy "discriminatory". They claimed they had urged the ministry…

The Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) yesterday filed cases against four petrol pumps in Dhaka and Gazipur for cheating customers by filling their vehicles with less quantity of fuel and violating the Standards of Weights and Measures Act-2018. The BSTI surveillance team conducted…

A suspected robber was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Saraitkandi village in Sonagazi upazila early yesterday. The deceased was identified as Iqbal Hossain, son of Abdur Rob of the village. Moin Uddin, officer-in-charge of Sonagazi Police Station, said Iqbal was a leader of an inter-district…

Pain perception is essential for survival, but how much something hurts can sometimes be amplified or suppressed: for example, soldiers who sustain an…

The end, perhaps, is now nigh in the epic legal dispute over a religious site that has sparked thousands of deaths, with India's top court wrapping up hearings yesterday. Judges are now expected to rule on the ownership of the area claimed by both Hindus and Muslims in Ayodhya in northern India…

Turkey rebuffed international pressure to curb its military offensive against Kurdish militants in Syria yesterday as US President Donald Trump dispatched…

The leader of the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump said Tuesday that witnesses had provided substantial support for allegations that Trump illegally tried to force Ukraine to investigate his political rival Joe Biden. While the White House and Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani…

A Norwegian politician has nominated the “people of Hong Kong” for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, in a move which risks drawing China’s ire. “I have nominated the people of Hong Kong, who risk their lives and security every day to stand up for freedom of speech and basic democracy,…