A sub-inspector of Border Security Force was arrested yesterday for allegedly raping a 30-year-old Bangladeshi woman inside a camp at Gaighata in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, Indian media reports said today.

A goods train, carrying wheat and boulders, is expected to travel from India’s Haldibari into Bangladesh on August 1 (Sunday) -- on a rail route revived by the two countries after 56 years.

Britain's UN ambassador warned on Thursday that half of Myanmar's 54 million people could be infected with Covid-19 in the next two weeks as Myanmar's envoy called for UN monitors to ensure an effective delivery of vaccines.

Israel’s prime minister on Thursday announced that the country would offer a coronavirus booster to people over 60 who have already been vaccinated.

Netflix Inc said it would take a deeper dive into video games as the movie and TV streaming service projected weak subscriber growth amid growing competition and the lifting of pandemic restrictions that had kept people at home.

Only 20.3 percent of the funds in government support programmes in response to the pandemic was directly targeted towards protecting the poor.

Many people are interested in research and it is not uncommon for young people, especially recent graduates, to join think tanks or research centres to try their luck at expanding the frontier of knowledge.

Hosted by Austin Creed, the show kicked off with Grid Legends, the latest instalment in Codemaster’s beloved Grid franchise.

According to the UN, cybercrime is up by 600% due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Such alarming statistics only emphasize the importance of taking certain precautions to bolster our digital safety:

Lately, Bengali OTT platforms have created much buzz over Bengali web content in contrast to traditional TV shows, especially among millennials and gen-z viewers. Here is a list of 5 contemporary Bengali web series featuring intriguing storylines you may consider putting on your watchlist.

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The reasons behind the skilled cohort of women joining this expanding sector lie in its numerous advantages, major ones being the flexibility of location, freedom to choose clients or projects, utilisation of skills, and a chance to reach financial solvency by becoming self-independent while eradicating the country’s unemployment crisis.

Police recently submitted a probe report without conducting a DNA test of the lone accused in the case filed over abetting the death by suicide of a college student, even though male DNA was found on the victim’s body.

The Editors’ Council, suddenly faced with a crisis arising out of Naem Nizam’s unilateral public announcement of resignation from the post of its general secretary on July 27, and that too from abroad, on grounds of differences of opinion with the president and the subsequent public response of the president the next day, held an emergency virtual meeting of its members yesterday afternoon to address the issue.

Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission hiked the prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sold by private companies.

Ismail Hasan Furkan, the key explosives expert and trainer of Neo-JMB, is at the top of the law enforcers’ wanted list as he continues to make most of its members efficient in producing bombs.

Although the deadlines expired, none of the three probe bodies, formed to investigate the fire incident at Hashem Food and Beverage factory in Narayanganj, submitted their reports.

India reacted sharply against UN Secretary General U Thant’s proposal which suggested posting observers in both India and East Pakistan. The Indian government considered the proposal as a design to divert the world’s attention from the real issue and depicted it as one between India and Pakistan.

It’s been quite some years since the freelancing sector has opened vast career opportunities in our country, and women, no matter how it seems, are not left behind entirely.

A case has been filed against a journalist under the Digital Security Act in Jhalakathi over making comments on a Facebook post.