UNB, DhakaThe Rajya Sabha (upper house) yesterday paid tribute to Bangladesh’s former prime minister Khaleda Zia, alongside erstwhile members of the upper house of the Indian parliament, L Ganesan and Suresh Kalmadi, who also passed away recently.

Wild elephant numbers in Thailand rose from 334 in 2015 to almost 800 last year, with thousands more in captivity

Nipah, spreads from animals to humans, has no vaccine

She was also accused of accepting lavish bribes from businesses and politicians totalling more than $200,000 -- including two Chanel bags and a Graff necklace from the leader of that sect

China's exports to non-U.S. markets rise significantly in 2025

Emergency landing attempt fails; wreckage scattered across open field

The approval covers several hundred thousand H200 chips and was granted during Nvidia.

The European Union (EU) and India yesterday announced the “mother of all deals”, a huge trade pact to create a market of two billion people, reached after two decades of negotiations.

Suu Kyi remains detained and her massively popular party has been dissolved, while critics say the ballot was stacked with army allies

Rescuers said they were treading carefully, fearing another landslide due to the unstable ground and bad weather

Singapore will invest more than Sg$1 billion ($785 million) in public research on artificial intelligence through 2030 to bolster its capabilities and enhance global competitiveness, the government said Saturday

Chinese President Xi Jinping called on countries to protect the “central role” of the United Nations in international affairs, urging his Brazilian counterpart yesterday to help safeguard international norms, state media reported.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will dissolve parliament on Friday ahead of a snap election on February 8

Oscar-winning composer AR Rahman has found himself in the centre of controversy after a recent BBC interview in which he suggested he may have lost work in Bollywood due to communal bias.

India has decided to withdraw all family members and dependents of diplomats and other officials from the High Commission of India and other missions in Bangladesh, PTI reported yesterday, citing official sources.

Japan logged 42.7 million arrivals last year, according to the transport ministry

It marks the lowest birth rate since records by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) began in 1949

Rescuers on Sunday found the debris from a small plane that went missing in eastern Indonesia, but have yet to locate the 10 passengers who were on board, officials said

A syndicate smuggled at least 15 Indonesian newborns to Singapore, using forged documents

Indonesian authorities are searching for a plane carrying three government workers and seven crew members after contact with the aircraft was lost on Saturday, officials said.