April2018

Korean Air Lines Co Ltd Chairman Cho Yang-ho apologized on Sunday for the behavior of his two daughters and said they would immediately step down from their positions at the company. One of the daughters, Cho...

Book Reading Competition is a Flagship Outreach programme run by the British Council Cultural Centre since 2010. Currently, this programme has is operating in Dhaka, Chittagong, and Sylhet partnering with more than 100 educational institutions. As...

Britain’s health minister Jeremy Hunt threatened to impose new regulations on social media firms unless they do more to protect young people using their services. Hunt said the groups were “turning a blind eye” to the...

Pope Francis called on Sunday for an end to the violence in Nicaragua, where at least six people have died in protests against unpopular changes in social security. Speaking to tens of thousands of people in...

A woman who identified herself as a woman cricketer has been arrested with 14,000 yaba pills in Chattogram. Nazreen Khan Mukta, 23, was arrested early on Sunday from a Dhaka-bound bus from Cox’s Bazar near the...

Armenian police detained three opposition leaders on Sunday and dispersed some protesters on the 10th day of demonstrations against the appointment of former President Serzh Sarksyan as prime minister, an opposition politician and witnesses said. Protesters...

The government has postponed the second paper of the HSC geography exam after a test centre mistakenly opened a packet of question sets, a day before the exam. The exam, which was set to be held...

Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 27-28 in central China’s Wuhan, Xinhua news agency reported Sunday. The announcement of the informal meeting was made by the Chinese government’s top...

Israel released details on Tuesday about what it described as an Iranian “air force” deployed in neighboring Syria, including civilian planes suspected of transferring arms, a signal that these could be attacked should tensions with Tehran...

Saudi Arabian security forces said they had shot down a recreational drone in the capital on Saturday after online videos showing gunfire in a neighborhood where royal palaces are located sparked fears of possible political unrest....