November2024

US President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as head of the US Department of Homeland Security, a powerful post at the heart of the Republican’s hard-line immigration policies. “Kristi has been...

Samantha Harvey, a British author, won the coveted Booker Prize on Tuesday for her science fiction book that chronicles the 24-hour orbit of six astronauts around the Earth. Harvey’s “Orbital” is set aboard the International Space...

Bangladesh Bank (BB) has asked banks to make letters of credit (LC) payments on time. “Delays in making import payments by banks are unacceptable against clean bills and accepted bills,” said a BB circular issued today. The...

The Singaporean high commissioner to Bangladesh, Derek Loh, visited Chief of Army Staff General Waker-Uz-Zaman at the army headquarters here today as a courtesy. According to an ISPR press statement, they talked about a number of...

According to a spokesman for a local ethnic armed group, a military bombing in the northern Shan state town of Naungcho on Tuesday afternoon destroyed a teashop in Myanmar, killing eleven people. The attack, which occurred...

The first of its kind, a two-day Global South Media and Think Tank Forum, began Monday in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The event, which was co-hosted by the Brazil Communication Company and Xinhua News Agency, had as...

In a letter to the International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL), the office of the chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) urged it to issue a red notice against Sheikh Hasina, the ousted prime minister,...

“The works of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam are a shared cultural heritage of India and Bangladesh that set a base to uphold closer people-to-people ties between the two neighbouring countries,” said Indian high commissioner to...

Mansour Chavoshi, the Iranian ambassador in Dhaka, visited Brig. Gen. (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain, the shipping, labour, and employment adviser, at his secretariat office today. The Iranian ambassador conveyed to the current interim government the collaboration...

As the Republican president-elect appoints a number of hard-liner and seasoned individuals to his upcoming cabinet, Donald Trump revealed Tuesday that Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, will head a new US “government efficiency”...