March2024

Chris Silverwood, the head coach of Sri Lanka, was unaffected by the intense rivalry between his team and Bangladesh, which frequently went too far. Since 2018, when the Sri Lankan players became enraged over Bangladesh’s “Nagin...

Executive Director and Spokesman for Bangladesh Bank (BB), Mezbaul Haque, announced today that the regulator intends to combine ten banks in less than a year. “Following the merger, the weak bank can become the strong bank...

A ship loaded with 200 tonnes of humanitarian aid for Palestinians in war-ravaged Gaza left from Cyprus’s Larnaca port on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the NGO operating the vessel said. “They have left,” Laura Lanuza from...

A Taka 2,45,000 crore Revised Annual Development Programme (RADP) for the current fiscal year (FY24) was approved today by the National Economic Council (NEC), with a focus on industries like power, energy, road transportation, and communication,...

According to a significant study released on Tuesday, Covid-19 caused the average life expectancy of people globally to drop by 1.6 years during the first two years of the pandemic—a more serious loss than previously believed....

In a fleeting moment of solace from the cacophony of machinery he and twelve other men were employing to extract gold from a mountainside in northern Afghanistan, Homayon tore off a chunk of moldy flatbread and...

In order to sign the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) and to become a member of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister, Dr. Hasan Mahmud, requested Belarus’ assistance today....

Russia can harvest 145 million metric tons of grain in 2024, Arkady Zlochevsky, President of the Russian Grain Union, said reporters. Ninety-two million of those tons would be wheat. “Concerning grain, 145 mln metric tons in...

Seoul is providing “necessary consular assistance” to a South Korean national who has been detained in Russia, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Tuesday, reportedly on espionage charges. Russia and North Korea have recently bolstered ties, including the...

In reaction to Russia’s actions against Ukraine, Polish President Andrzej Duda stated on Monday that NATO members should raise their defense budgets to three percent of GDP. While Poland already spends about 4 percent of GDP...