October2017

News Hour: Bangladesh says it has discovered a new natural gas field in the southern district of Bhola. The gas field is estimated to have 700 billion cubic feet of reserves, Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam...

News Hour: Government officials will receive more allowance to have their phone and internet bills paid by the state. The Ministry of Public Administration has proposed that high-level government officials receive Tk50,000 as a one-time allowance...

News Hour: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will go to Cox’s Bazar on Sunday to visit refugee camps for the Rohingya, who have fled to Bangladesh to escape persecution in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The decision was taken...

News Hour: Unless progress is seriously accelerated, it will take over 100 years to end child marriage in West and Central Africa, with far-reaching, life-altering consequences for millions of child brides and crippling impact on the...

News Hour: Nearly two months since Rohingya families began fleeing en masse to Bangladesh, thousands of children and women are still without basic lifesaving services, UNICEF said. The warning comes as representatives of donor governments and...

News Hour: Panasonic Corporation announced that it has acquired Arimo Inc., a Mountain View, a California-based leader in deep learning and behavioral artificial intelligence (AI). Ranked among the ten most innovative companies in data science by...

News Hour: Bulgaria has reported two outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5 bird flu virus, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday. One outbreak occurred on a farm in the village of...

News Hour: Asian shares held within striking distance of recent decade highs on Tuesday and major currencies kept to narrow ranges, while the New Zealand dollar fell after the country’s incoming Labour government laid out its...

News Hour: The launch of Alphabet Inc’s second-generation Google Pixel smartphones has been hampered by display screen problems and pricing and shipping issues, prompting the company to open an investigation and issue multiple apologies to customers....

News Hour: Amazon.com Inc has received 238 proposals from cities and regions across North America vying to host the company’s second headquarters, it said on Monday. The number of applicants underscores the interest in the contest,...