August2021

On the eve of the country’s 50th anniversary, Vietnam announced an amnesty for more than 3,000 detainees. According to deputy minister of public security Le Quoc Hung, prisoners imprisoned for corruption, drugs, and other criminal offences...

Pori Moni, an actress, has been granted bail in a narcotics case. After hearing on her bail petition in the case on Tuesday, Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge KM Emrul Kayes granted her bail on a Tk...

Dr. Firdausi Qadri, a Bangladeshi scientist, has earned the Ramon Magsaysay Award. Dr. Qadri, an emeritus scientist at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (icddr,b), has been named a laureate of the 2020 L’Oréal-Unesco For...

Masatsugu Asakawa, President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), won unanimous support for a second term from members of the ADB Board of Governors who voted in the just concluded election. His new term will begin...

If all of the relevant paperwork is completed on schedule, the body of Biman Bangladesh Airlines pilot Captain Nawshad Ataul Qayyum could arrive in Dhaka on Thursday morning. Captain Nawshad died yesterday at Kingsway Hospitals in...

The spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19 threatens the fragile recovery of U.S. restaurants, according to a report on Tuesday from the National Restaurant Association. Nearly one in five adults surveyed online from August 13-15...

Ed Asner, best-known for playing fictional TV newsman Lou Grant, has died aged 91. The actor, whose roles also included voicing the lead in the Pixar film Up, passed away “peacefully” on Sunday morning, his family...

Ryanair is expecting a “very strong recovery” in European short-haul flights, according to its chief executive, Michael O’Leary. The Dublin-based carrier predicts it will fly 10.5 million passengers a month over the next three months. By...

Toyota is resuming operations of its autonomous vehicles at the Paralympic Games village in Tokyo following an accident. Services of the e-Palette pods were halted after a vehicle hit a visually impaired athlete last week. The...

As millions of school children return to school across the European Region where the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is dominant, the WHO Regional Office for Europe and UNICEF Europe and Central Asia Regional Office call...