May2025

“US President Donald Trump concluded his Gulf tour in Abu Dhabi on Friday, a visit marked by the securing of multi-billion-dollar trade agreements, a $1.4 trillion investment pledge from the UAE, and notable diplomatic overtures towards...

Fisheries and Livestock Adviser Farida Akhter said, “We want due share of Ganges water but not favour from anyone.” “We have natural and ancestral rights to Ganges water and none can snatch it,” she said while...

Chief of Air Staff of the Bangladesh Air Force, Air Chief Marshal Hasan Mahmood Khan, returned to Bangladesh today following an official visit to Italy. During his visit, the Air Chief attended the AeroSpace Power Conference...

The World Health Organization said Thursday that the last hospital in Gaza providing cancer and cardiac care had stopped functioning after an Israeli attack. The UN health agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X that...

One of Australia’s most decorated soldiers on Friday lost a legal bid to overturn bombshell court findings that implicated him in war crimes while serving in Afghanistan. Former SAS commando Ben Roberts-Smith has been fighting to...

Colombian police on Thursday arrested the main suspect in the kidnapping and murder of 13 employees of a gold mine in the north of neighboring Peru, the government in Lima said. The burnt bodies of the...

Britain’s economy grew more than expected in the first quarter, official data showed Thursday, covering the period before business tax hikes and US President Donald Trump’s tariffs blitz took effect. Gross domestic product rose 0.7 percent...

Oil prices sank Thursday on hopes for an Iran nuclear breakthrough after Donald Trump said a deal was “getting close” and US media reported Tehran had indicated it could be open to curbs on its atomic...

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on Wednesday approved $270 million financing to bolster Bangladesh’s flood recovery efforts and enhance its resilience to future disasters, including support for constructing and rehabilitating critical infrastructure, strengthening agricultural...

Bangladesh is set to participate in the 37th Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting (37CHMM), scheduled to take place on May 17 in Geneva, concurrently with the 78th World Health Assembly. Director General of Health Services Dr. Namzul...