May2018

Japanese investors who have stakes in Bangladesh have shared their positive experiences to encourage their peers to invest there. They underlined the challenges facing Bangladesh, but said there are enough advantages for investing in the country...

Indonesian police shot dead four men on Wednesday after they used samurai swords to attack officers at Riau police headquarters in Pekanbaru, Sumatra, a police spokesman said. The men had driven their car into the police...

The new film by Iran’s Jafar Panahi, who is banned from leaving Iran, has premiered to a standing ovation at the Cannes film festival, with a seat left symbolically empty for the dissident director. Panahi’s children...

Speakers at a seminar here today said the incidences of thunderbolt have increased due to raise of temperature. “The incidences of thunderbolt have increased in recent years and a total of 306 people, including women and...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says Israel has violated human rights by using force against Palestinians. Her condemnation came when her Turkish counterpart Binali Yıldırım phoned her on Tuesday evening, her Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told the...

Afghan forces on Wednesday reasserted control over the western city of Farah after a Taliban assault a day earlier but there was heavy fighting elsewhere, including Ghazni, south of the capital, Kabul, officials said. With security...

Banned chlorine munitions were likely dropped on a Syrian neighborhood in February, an international body on chemical weapons said on Wednesday, after laboratory tests confirmed the presence of the toxic chemical. In its latest report on...

North Korea threw next month’s summit between Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump into doubt on Wednesday, threatening weeks of diplomatic progress by saying it may reconsider if Washington insists it unilaterally gives up...