The Soviet Union vetoed today in the UN Security Council an American resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Indian-Pakistani conflict and for the withdrawal of the armed forces of both the countries to their own side of the border.

The 58th death anniversary of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, one of the greatest leaders of undivided India, is being observed in the country today with due dignity.

The Golden Jubilee of the Bangladesh Army was celebrated in a befitting manner across the country on Friday.

AK Azad, publisher of Samakal, has been elected president of the executive committee of Newspaper Owners’ Association of Bangladesh (Noab) for the second time in a row.

New Zealand's Mumbai-born spinner Ajaz Patel claimed all 10 Indian wickets in the second Test, becoming only the third bowler in cricket history to achieve the feat on Saturday.

Apple Inc iPhones of at least nine US State Department employees were hacked by an unknown assailant using sophisticated spyware developed by the Israel-based NSO Group, according to four people familiar with the matter.

A man was killed yesterday after a private car crashed into his bicycle in Bashundhara Residential Area of Dhaka.

Bangladesh is now cited by many as a country producing billionaires as its high economic growth is increasingly becoming unequal, which undermines the vision of equitable growth to become a rich nation in the next 20 years, Prof Wahiduddin Mahmud has told a development conference.

In another show of the growing strength of Bangladesh’s economy, the government might give loans to the Maldives after the Island nation sought funds.

The deep depression over west-central Bay and adjoining area moved northwards further intensifying into a cyclonic storm ‘Jawad’ around noon yesterday, the Met Office said in a weather bulletin.

The Mitro Bahini (India-Bangladesh Joint Command) swung into action against Pakistan today. The air force of the Joint Command

Malaysia is going to recruit security guards from Bangladesh, the second country after Nepal that has so far been allowed to send people to the Southeast Asian nation for the sector.

A prospectus is a document that gives details of a company’s activities and aims to persuade the public to invest in their company.

With Bangladesh passing 50 years of its independence, it aspires to become an upper-middle income country 10 years from now, and a developed nation by 2041. In his keynote at the conclusion of the three-day Annual BIDS Conference on Development, Economist Prof Wahiduddin Mahmud says these are inspirational goals and suggests caution when crossing the pathways through which, by trial and error, the country shall reach there.

Two people were killed and three others injured after a microbus hit an autorickshaw on Chapainawabganj-Sonamasjid Land Port Highway in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj this afternoon.

After a blessing by Buddhist monks, Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh on Friday rode the first run of a $5.9 billion Chinese-built railway that links isolated, mountainous Laos with southern China in an effort to increase trade.

At least 32 patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8:00am today, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Developing countries like Bangladesh can take advantage of the apparel industry as an indirect launching platform to help women transition from jobs to careers and to bring more women into the labour markets by adopting complementary policies, experts said.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion during a drive arrested five robbers of a gang including its ringleader from the Galachipa Ferry Terminal area of Patuakhali early today.

Six different Covid-19 vaccines administered as booster doses are safe and elicit strong immune response among people who earlier received both doses of the AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaccines, according to a study published in the UK medical journal The Lancet.