December2017

Every year 107,000 workers suffer from asbestosis and other diseases across the world due to use of asbestos in the workplace. Speakers in a consultation on Asbestos in Bangladesh urged the Government of Bangladesh to impose...

Through a framework of mutual cooperation, ADB and the Global Fund can complement each other’s contributions to health programs in the Asia and Pacific region. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Global Fund have signed...

The launch on Sunday night may have caused an early outage of the Chicago-based CBOE Global Markets’ website. The exchange said that due to heavy traffic on the CBOE Global Markets website. Bitcoin futures jumped more...

Adding to the upbeat sentiment was an agreement by US lawmakers to keep funding the government to avert a painful shutdown. Most Asian markets rose on Monday, tracking fresh records on Wall Street following forecast-busting US...

The memorandum of understanding was signed at the royal palace in the coastal city of Casablanca in the presence of King Mohammed VI and BYD’s chairman, Wang Chuanfu, whose company is backed by US investor Warren...

Children in conflict with the law, a police investigator and residents of a small Ukrainian village: sounds like the cast of a popular thriller. They were, in fact, all prize winners at the UN Migration Agency’s...

Amidst disappointments from senior shooters, 16th years old Arnab Sharar gave enough reasons for the country to smile as he captured silver medal in the youth section of 10m air rifle event in the 10th Asian...

It was already in air Mushfiqur Rahim has been replaced as a captain as expected Shakib Al Hasan was announced as new Test captain for the forthcoming Sri Lanka tour to Bangladesh in January 2018. The...

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Saturday declared victory in a three-year war by Iraqi forces to expel the Islamic State jihadist group that at its height endangered Iraq’s very existence. “Our forces are in complete control...

The Paris climate summit next week offers a chance for concrete advances in the fight against global warming, even without the support of President Donald Trump, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said. “What makes this...