A teacher of the Dhaka University (DU) Economics Department staged a sit-in on yesterday in front of the department chairman’s room demanding the…

Appellate Division (AD) of the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday sought medical reports on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s health condition while hearing her bail petition in the Zia Charitable Trust Corruption Case. It also asked Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University to submit Khaleda’s…

Visiting Chief of General Staff (CGS) of Saudi Armed Forces General Fayyadh bin Hamed Al- Ruwaili highly appreciated the role of Bangladesh in Rohingya issue and said Riyad will always stay beside Dhaka on this issue and quick repatriation. The Saudi chief of general staff said this when he paid a courtesy…

Seven public agricultural universities are going to hold a uniform admission test for the first time on Saturday after a lot of efforts. Nearly 40,000 admission seekers are going to appear for the exam against 3,555 seats in these universities for the 2019-20 academic year. The seven universities are:…

China threatened retaliation against Washington yesterday after US President Donald Trump signed legislation supporting Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters, just as the world’s top two economies edge towards a trade truce. Activists in the crisis-hit city hailed the move, saying it would help them…

Astronomers have discovered a black hole in the Milky Way so huge that it challenges existing models of how stars evolve, researchers said yesterday.…

Southern Iraq was in bloody upheaval yesterday after a government crackdown killed 30 protesters and thousands defied a curfew to join funeral marches, following the dramatic torching of an Iranian consulate. Iraq's capital and south have been rocked by the worst street unrest since the 2003 US-led…

Disgraced Maldives ex-president Abdulla Yameen was sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering yesterday after a corruption probe into the former strongman’s rule of the luxury tourist destination. Yameen, who ran the Indian Ocean archipelago with an iron fist before his shock election…