Nearly 300 doctors resigns from government hospitals in India’s West Bengal as their protest against an attack on a colleague earlier this week in Kolkata escalates.

Bangladesh has urged the development partners to help the country reach its desired level of disability inclusion.

Two "flying objects" damaged a Japanese tanker in a suspected attack in the Gulf of Oman, but there was no damage to the cargo of methanol, the president of the shipping company has said.

The proposed national budget for 2019-20 fiscal year will ensure facilities only to high-income people, says Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) distinguished fellow Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya.

Hong Kong social media has lit up when protesters noticed Google's translation software was briefly churning out a rather odd suggestion during a week that has seen the worst political violence to hit the city in decades.

A young girl suffers serious burn injuries as miscreants allegedly set her on fire at Birpur in Narsingdi district town.

Association of Mobile Telecom Operators of Bangladesh (AMTOB) in a budget reaction has termed the incremental supplementary duty on mobile phone uses as a “suicidal decision”.

In the acclaimed US mini-series "Chernobyl", Oleksiy Ananenko is hailed as one of three men who helped avert an even greater disaster after the worst nuclear accident in history.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes it clear to Chinese President Xi Jinping that there was no question of India resuming dialogue with Pakistan until Islamabad created an atmosphere free of terrorism in the region.

The United States has blamed Iran for attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday that drove up oil prices and raised concerns about a new US-Iranian confrontation, but Tehran has bluntly denied the allegation.

Vessel movement at Chattogram port is set to resume after it was halted following an accident between two vessels in the port’s channel.

An Australian man pleads not guilty to 92 charges stemming from a massacre in two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch and will stand trial in May 2020.

The government will bring all eligible taxpayers under the tax net, says Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal.

Bangladesh government has planned to build 60 thousand flats under the public-private partnership (PPP) system in Purbachal, which is a new city of Dhaka.

Fiscal policy, embodied in the government’s national budget, is an important determinant of macroeconomic stability, growth and equity. The FY20 budget maintains the usual prudence we have gotten used to with a 5 percent of GDP overall deficit target of which 2.7 percentage point is projected to be financed from domestic sources and the rest from foreign sources.

The government has planned to form a special wing to reduce mismanagement and stop any clearance of goods through mis-declaration in the bonded warehouses.

Hello dear readers! How was your day? Here are the news headlines on June 13, 2019.

A boy has died in an explosion of a mobile phone in Bahubal upazila of Habiganj.

The proposed budget is an ambitious one. We expect clear guidelines and plans from the government how this budget is going to be implemented, given the fact that weak implementation of budget has become a norm in recent years. It is important to highlight how the performance of different ministries will be improved to implement this proposed budget.

Total budget increased by 18 percent as compared to revised budget 2018-19. Similarly, development budget increased by 22 percent as compared to revised budget as well. No doubt, this is ambitious and involves lot of challenges in implementation.