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In an effort to promote policy stability in the US ally, particularly in its complex relationship with Japan, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is holding discussions in crisis-torn South Korea on Monday. On the day...

Home Adviser Lt. Gen. (retd) Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury today said e-passport will be available for all by the end of this year.  “We will ensure e-passport for all by December 31 this year. There will...

According to an official announcement, the environment department (DoE) recommended residents of Dhaka and the surrounding area to wear facemasks outside of their homes by law because the city’s air quality index (AQI) hit a dangerously...

After suffering from several illnesses, renowned actor Prabir Mitra passed away tonight in the city’s Square Hospital. He was eighty-one. According to family sources, legendary actor Prabir Mitra, also referred to as the “Nawab of the...

Saudi Ambassador Essa Youssef Essa Al Duhailan said today that Aramco, the state-owned oil behemoth of Saudi Arabia, has shown interest in establishing an oil refinery in Bangladesh, which might have a major effect on the...

The ‘Statistical Analysis of Oceanographic Data’ training session, which will last five days, began today at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST). The event was opened this morning in the IICT Bhaban conference room by...

At least four guerillas and one police officer were killed in Sunday’s clash between Indian security forces and Maoist rebels in their wooded heartland, according to police. The decades-long insurgency led by Naxalite rebels, who claim...

According to a prosecutors’ report seen by AFP on Sunday, Yoon Suk Yeol, the suspended president of South Korea, disregarded the protests of important cabinet members before to his unsuccessful attempt to impose martial law last...

New York put local officials on a collision path with President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday when they unveiled a contentious plan to charge automobiles entering some areas of the city, the first of its kind in...

The presidential palace facing Damascus is connected to a military complex entrusted with protecting the Syrian capital via a system of tunnels on the slopes of Mount Qasyun, which overlooks the city. An AFP correspondent saw...