November2017

News Hour 35 Australia Awards South and West Asia alumni, representing seven countries, started pitching project ideas today in Dhaka as part of the Alumni Innovation Challenge, which was organised jointly by BRAC and Australia Awards....

News Hour The ‘Institutional and Regulatory Framework for Faecal Sludge Management (FSM)’ was officially launched at an event held at the capital’s Department of Public Health Engineering recently. Nasrin Akter, Additional Secretary, Local Government Division formally...

News Hour The 7th Dhaka Literary Festival (DLF) will begin on the premises of Bangla Academy in the capital on November 16. The Cultural Affairs Ministry, Bangla Academy and Jatrik Production Limited (JPL) are organizing the...

News Hour While her husband hit the greens, First Lady Melania Trump got a glimpse on Sunday of Japanese cultured pearls at Tokyo’s glitzy Ginza shopping district on the first day of their Asia tour. Melania...

News Hour Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers said he was proud of his players for overcoming every challenge they have had to face on their way to breaking their own 100-year-old British record unbeaten domestic run. The...

News Hour: Saudi authorities detained a billionaire global investor and the head of the National Guard as part of an anti-corruption purge that consolidates Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s hold on power. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal,...

News Hour: The parents of a teenage girl in India have caught their daughter’s alleged rapists after police refused to register their complaint. The parents, who are police officials, said that one officer accused their daughter...

News Hour: Porn star Mia Khalifa is rumored to join the Indian film industry. After massive hits in Bollywood, Sunny Leone is now determined to carve her career in the film industry. In 2011, the former...

News Hour: Bangladesh is set to join the world’s nuclear club as 32nd nation on November 30 through the first pouring of the structural concrete for installation of the country’s first nuclear reactor at Rooppur, Pabna,...

News Hour: Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged the parliaments of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association member countries to exert pressure on the Myanmar government to stop persecution on its Rohingya citizens and take them back from...