January2023

Southwest Airlines Co said on Monday it made leadership changes across several departments in a bid to strengthen operations amid a recent technology meltdown that forced the carrier to cancel more than 16,700 flights. The Texas-based...

Human action to save the ozone layer has worked as hoped, and it may recover in just decades, the UN says. An international agreement in 1987 to stop using the harmful chemicals that were damaging the...

Nearly 90% of people in Henan, China’s third most populous province, have now been infected with Covid, local health officials say. Provincial official Kan Quancheng revealed the figure – amounting to about 88.5 million people –...

Asian markets resumed their strong start to the year Monday, tracking a surge on Wall Street fuelled by hopes that US data will allow the Federal Reserve to slow its pace of interest rate hikes. All...

Novoair, one of the Bangladeshi private airliners, has successfully completed its 10 years of operation as a passenger carrier. The airliner today celebrated its 10th anniversary through various programmes as it started its journey on January...

US-Bangla airlines has decided to add new generation wide-body aircraft Airbus 330 to operate flights to different destinations in the Saudi Arabia which hosts the largest expatriate Bangladeshi community. Initially, the airlines will procure two A-330...

An estimated 5 million children died before their fifth birthday and another 2.1 million children and youth aged between 5–24 years lost their lives in 2021, according to the latest estimates released by the United Nations...

More than four months after a national state of emergency was declared in Pakistan, up to 4 million children are still living near contaminated and stagnant flood waters, risking their survival and wellbeing, UNICEF warned. Acute...

Who makes you laugh the most and, at the same time, intimidates you among all the villains of the Dhaliwood industry? For many from Gen Z, it’s definitely Dipjol. It was not only his quirky dialogues,...

As retaliation for a recent deadly attack on its troops, Russia claimed on Sunday that it had launched a catastrophic “retaliatory strike” in eastern Ukraine. Kyiv swiftly refuted this assertion. “More than 600 Ukrainian servicemen were...