June2017

News Hour: Pop superstar Katy Perry has made history by becoming the first user to garner 100 million followers on Twitter, the social media platform announced. “Today we #WITNESS history,” Twitter said Friday in a tweet,...

News Hour: John Avildsen, the Oscar-winning director whose blockbuster films like “Rocky” and “The Karate Kid” championed the ascent of underdogs, has died. He was 81 years old. The filmmaker died of pancreatic cancer at Cedars-Sinai...

News Hour: A deadlocked Pennsylvania jury battling to reach a verdict in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial was to deliberate a fifth day Friday as to whether or not he drugged and molested a woman more...

News Hour: Around 1 in 6 older people experience some form of abuse, a figure higher than previously estimated and predicted to rise as populations age worldwide. A new study, supported by WHO and published in...

News Hour: Noted singer and Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendro artiste Abdul Jabbar’s first musical album “Kothai Amar Nil Doria” has been released online. The album contains nine songs written by Md Amirul Islam and composed by...

News Hour: The government is set to sign two separate loan agreements on June 21 for the construction of Chittagong-Cox’s Bazar Railway Line. “A total of two contracts would be signed between Bangladesh government and the...

News Hour: In an attempt to explore the latest ICT innovations and global best practices to accelerate digital transformation of the financial institution, technology giant Huawei recently hosted it’s fifth Global Financial Summit in Beijing, China....

News Hour: Tresiba® demonstrated no increased risk of major cardiovascular (CV) events and significant reduction in rates of severe hypoglycaemia compared to insulin glargine U100 in the DEVOTE trial. DEVOTE is a long-term, a multinational, randomized,...

News Hour: In the backstreets of Agra’s Muslim quarter, where shoes have been made for centuries, small-scale manufacturers are firing workers and families cutting back on spending as a government crackdown on cattle slaughter ripples through...

News Hour: An Indian court on Friday found six men guilty of involvement in a series of blasts in the city of Mumbai in 1993 that killed 257 people and wounded 800, the latest in scores...