As yesterday (Thursday) was the last working day for employees and officials of government, semi-government and private offices before Eid-ul-Azha, city…

One more dengue patient died even as hospitals across the country admitted a large number of dengue patients yesterday. Breaking all previous records in the country, the number of recorded cases of dengue in the first eight months this year has hit 34,666, according to the Directorate-General of Health…

Humanity faces increasingly painful trade-offs between food security and rising temperatures within decades unless emissions are curbed and unsustainable farming and deforestation halted, a landmark climate assessment said yesterday. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned…

India has raised its concern over the “illicit movement of undocumented persons across the border, with a view to finding a solution to this problem, especially in North East India.” Indian Home Minister Amit Shah raised the concern during a home minister-level meeting with his Bangladesh…

Bangladesh and the United States have discussed concerns with traffickers exploiting legal recruitment fees to trap migrant workers in debt-based coercion. Officials of the two countries also discussed the need to identify internal forced labour and sex trafficking, increase accountability for traffickers,…