December2016

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said an accord to end a 52-year civil war with Marxist rebels was a “ray of hope” for solving conflicts from Syria to South Sudan as he collected the Nobel Peace...

News Hour: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise decision to scrap high-value banknotes has upset preparations for next year’s budget because of the resulting disruption to growth, revenues and asset sales, two government sources said. Modi scrapped...

News Hour: Fugitive Indian businessman Vijay Mallya said on Friday that his Twitter account had been penetrated by a hacking group called Legion, which posted links to what it alleged were details of Mallya’s bank accounts,...

News Hour: As a part of a responsible business operation in Bangladesh, A H Khan & Co. Ltd. a business partner and supplier of British American tobacco Bangladesh, built an environment-friendly world class warehouse at Shayestaganj in Habiganj,...

News Hour: Dhaka University has won the Grand Finale of the Sweden-Bangladesh Nobel Memorial Quiz 2016 held today in Dhaka. Triumphing over three competing teams in the final, Team Pratishwik, comprising of Shamim Sohani Rimon, Wahik...

News Hour: The Pacific is again on high alert for Tsunami waves after another strong earthquake rocked the Solomon Islands on Saturday. A strong 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck approximately 100 kilometres west of Peka Island in the...

News Hour: Nine people died after an under-construction building collapsed in southern India but a four-year-old boy and his mother were pulled alive from the rubble, police said on Saturday. The seven-storey building where labourers and...

News Hour: Tens of thousands of people have been displaced after a devastating earthquake in Indonesia killed more than 100 people, an official said Saturday, leaving communities in ruins as aid trickled into the disaster-stricken province,...

News Hour IOM Niger’s border management team earlier this week (5/12) launched the Community Engagement on Border Management Mechanism in Niger project in the capital, Niamey. The USD 990,000 project, funded by the United States, will...

News Hour: The French government announced plans on Saturday to extend a national state of emergency until after elections next year, citing a heightened risk of jihadist attacks coinciding with polls. The security measures — in...