April2025

The United States said Friday it was raising its assistance to earthquake-hit Myanmar but added it was unfair to expect the nation to keep leading humanitarian relief around the world. The State Department said it was...

In their investigation into the country’s bloodiest mass shooting, Swedish police reported on Friday that they had spoken with about 1,000 people and were still working to determine the motivation. Rickard Andersson, 35, visited the Campus...

US President Donald Trump unveiled the first “gold card”, a residency permit sold for $5 million each, aboard Air Force One on Thursday. Holding a prototype that bore his face and an inscription “The Trump Card”,...

Indonesia’s main business lobby has backed Jakarta to negotiate better terms with Washington after US President Donald Trump imposed hefty tariffs on goods from Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. Trump announced sweeping, harsher-than-expected global levies this week,...

Following months of political unrest, South Korea’s top court unanimously decided on Friday to remove impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office due to his botched declaration of martial law, setting the stage for new elections....

A delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will arrive in Dhaka tomorrow to assess progress on various conditions before the disbursement of the fourth and fifth tranches of the $4.7 billion loan agreement. The team...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of Bangladesh and the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) of Thailand today entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at jointly fostering international cooperation in fighting corruption. ACC chairman Dr Mohammad Abdul...

Today, Tshering Tobgay, the prime minister of Bhutan, requested a dedicated fiber optic internet connection from Bangladesh. During a meeting with Bangladesh Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus during the BIMSTEC Summit in Bangkok, the prime of...

During their bilateral meeting in Bangkok today, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was shown an image by Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus. According to Abul Kalam Azad Majumder, the deputy press secretary for the chief adviser,...

According to recent statistics published by the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME), Bangladesh is confronting serious difficulties in providing care for mothers and newborns. Even though there has been improvement since...