Chattogram sea port has moved six notches up to become the 64th busiest container port among 100 top ports across the world, according to the latest Lloyd’s List -- world’s oldest journal on port and shipping.

US scientists announced Thursday they have successfully built functional heart parts out of collagen with a 3D bioprinter, using a breakthrough technique they say could one day create entire organs.

The Roads and Highways Department has demolished over 350 illegal establishments beside Dhaka-Pabna highway in Pabna in the last two days.

China yesterday said it would not be blackmailed and warned of retaliation after US President Donald Trump vowed to slap a 10% tariff on $300 billion of Chinese imports from next month, sharply escalating a trade row between the world’s biggest economies.

Myanmar has expressed dismay after Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Rohingyas faced “massacre or genocide”.

Tempted by the lucrative offer of chauffeuring in Kuwait, 30 jobseekers contacted a travel agency in the capital after noticing their advertisement in a newspaper in February.

A proposed peace deal would see the United States withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan in exchange for promises from the Taliban that it would renounce Al-Qaeda, US media reported on Thursday.

Hundreds of people were evacuated from a town in central England as a British military helicopter was called in yesterday to prevent a reservoir dam from collapsing.

An assistant teacher was arrested yesterday afternoon for allegedly molesting a 12-year-old female student during a class in Bogura’s Shajahanpur.

The home ministry has suspended Partha Gopal Banik from his post of the deputy inspector general (prisons) of Sylhet division. The decision was made on Tuesday after a Dhaka court had sent Partha to jail the previous day in connection with a case filed o

The number of dengue infected patients in different districts is increasing alarmingly, indicating that the disease is quickly spreading across the country. Over 1,250 dengue patients have been identified in Chattogram, Feni, Dinajpur, Mymensingh, Kishoreganj, Brahmanbaria, Narsingdi,

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed Awami League leaders and activists to take proper steps to check mosquito breeding.

China’s military has released a slick propaganda video showing a drill of armed troops quelling a protest in Hong Kong, as its commander for the city voiced determination to maintain law and order following two months of pro-democracy rallies.

A Malaysian lawmaker apologised yesterday after his proposal for legislation to protect men from being “seduced” by women into committing sex crimes such as rape sparked a storm of criticism.

Poland’s police said yesterday they had arrested a fugitive Polish human trafficker who fled Britain after he was found guilty of running a large modern slavery ring there.

Libya’s Government of National Accord has protested at what it said were “untruths” in UN envoy Ghassan Salame’s latest report on the conflict in the North African country.

The father of a US teen arrested in Rome over the killing of an Italian police officer said yesterday his son didn’t know his friend was carrying a knife.

The Chattogram Customs House has yet to start making an inventory of the consignments seized at the port on July 23 on charge of containing large quantities of foreign liquor.

The United States believes that Hamza bin Laden, a son of slain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and himself a notable figure in the militant group, is dead, a US official said on Wednesday.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani yesterday mocked a US decision to impose sanctions on his top diplomat Mohammad Javad Zarif, saying it showed Washington was “afraid” of him as tensions again flare between the arch-enemies.