Leading chambers and trade bodies yesterday criticised the government's 2.5 percent corporate tax cut proposal for only banks and financial institutions in fiscal 2018-19, saying the move would not bring in the desired private or foreign investments.

When seasonal floods reach her village of Betil Char in Chowhali upazila of Sirajganj, 60-year-old Joygan Begum knows what to

The additional requirement of Tk 117,000 crore for private investment in the coming fiscal year may not be fulfilled, the Centre for Policy Dialogue said yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached Toronto yesterday morning on a four-day official visit to Canada to attend the Outreach Leaders Programme of G7, the group of seven countries with advanced economies in the world.

South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma appeared in court yesterday ahead of a corruption trial, raising questions about ballooning legal costs before addressing adoring crowds outside who condemned his prosecution.

Spain's influential El Pais newspaper approved the appointment of its first woman editor, the daily's owner said yesterday, a day after a new Spanish government was sworn in with women holding the majority of ministerial posts.

The Islamic State group yesterday seized parts of a key town on the Syrian-Iraqi border in a massive operation that further confirmed the jihadists remain a force on the ground.

US President Donald Trump's attempt to overthrow or renegotiate a series of international agreements constitutes a threat to the post Cold War order, EU president Donald Tusk warned yesterday.

Any military assault to capture a key rebel-held port in Yemen would have a "catastrophic humanitarian impact" in the country already reeling from a brutal conflict, the United Nations warned yesterday.

A Nasa robot has detected more building blocks for life on Mars -- the most complex organic matter yet -- from 3.5 billion-year-old rocks on the surface of the Red Planet, scientists said Thursday.

Myanmar's army and civilian leadership held a rare "national security" meeting yesterday and discussed an internal investigation into the Rohingya crisis in Rakhine state, the president's office said.

A woman was run over and killed by a bus seconds after she got down from another bus in front of Jatiya Press Club yesterday.

Bangladesh-born Doly Begum has been elected a member of the provincial parliament in Canada's Scarborough Southwest.

Dhaka has finally sent information and observations to the International Criminal Court (ICC), including whether the court could have territorial jurisdiction regarding the displacement of the Rohingyas.

Two people were killed on Wednesday in a fresh round of powerful rainstorms that have damaged homes, destroyed vineyards and flooded roads across France over the last fortnight.

All 10 passengers of a small plane, whose wreckage was discovered in central Kenya two days after it went missing, died in the accident, the airline and government said yesterday.

The Thai junta unveiled a new $10 billion defence and security budget yesterday, in what may be its final opportunity to allocate extra funds to the armed forces before a promised return to elections early next year.

A man allegedly raped a teenage girl at Sreerampur village in Sadullapur upazila, on Wednesday afternoon.

A doctor by profession, 38-year-old Jahidul Alam Kadir also cultivated a seemingly innocuous hobby: collecting firearms.

The government's long-running 'Guchchhogram' public housing scheme is intended to give landless families a new footing from which they can create prosperous, self-sufficient lives.