March2025

In contrast to US President Donald Trump’s widely denounced plan to annex the Gaza Strip and force its residents to leave, Arab leaders on Tuesday approved a plan to rehabilitate the Gaza Strip under the future...

Under fierce pressure from US President Donald Trump, Hong Kong firm Hutchison said Tuesday it had agreed to sell its lucrative Panama Canal ports to a US-led consortium. CK Hutchison Holdings said it would offload a...

Canada responded to US President Donald Trump’s broad import tariffs on Tuesday, claiming the American levy was an existential threat that needed to be addressed right away. The first steps taken by Canada include a set...

Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said Tuesday that his centre-right CDU/CSU and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) would propose an unprecedented package of billions of euros in extra spending on defence and infrastructure. The two...

Reports that the US may redirect billions of dollars to Elon Musk’s Starlink by altering a rural broadband deployment program alarmed an internet rights group on Tuesday. After the Wall Street Journal revealed that the Department...

Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar, popularly known as CR Abrar, a retired Professor of Dhaka University’s International Relations (IR) Department has sworn in as an adviser to the incumbent Interim Government. President Mohammed Shahabuddin administered the oath to the new...

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized smuggled goods worth over Tk 170.18 crore from the bordering areas in the month of February, said a press release of the paramilitary force.  The seized contraband items included 2.529kg...

As part of a bilateral agreement to strengthen medical care collaboration between the two nations, the first group of Bangladeshi patients is scheduled to leave for China on March 10. An official source told BSS this...

Police today urged everyone to refrain from sharing sensitive content on social media without adequate verification, such as robberies. In response to a social media post of a phony dacoity in South Keraniganj, the Dhaka District...

Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser for the environment, forests, and climate change, announced today that Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s national oil firm, has agreed to provide LNG to Bangladesh at a reduced cost. “Currently Bangladesh imports LNG from...