India hosted the eighth BRICS summit in Goa on October 15-16 amid much fanfare. The group was formed with five major emerging economies - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - with a view to challenging the existing global financial architecture (World Bank, IMF, etc) dominated by the West, particularly the US. These five economies - representing 43 percent of world population, 30 percent of global GDP (over USD 17 trillion) and 17 percent of world trade - held its first summit in Russia in June 2009.

Defying odds, Nasrin Akter of Khetlal upazila in Joypurhat got chance for medical graduation course in Satkhira Medical

Not sure if there is a direct correlation between the plummeting of gold imports in India and the fact that there is once again another

Work for cluster housing on 8.27 acres of government land is going on for the homeless people in Jorgachha union of Sonatola upazila under the district, much to the happiness of 40 beneficiary families.

China likes to mind its own business. It wants to have as little involvement abroad as it can get away with. Instead of acting for the “greater good of humanity” it responds pragmatically when its own interests are at stake.

I am writing this from Colombo, Sri Lanka where I have been attending the Fifth Asia Pacific Adaptation forum here with over 800 participants from over fifty countries in Asia and the Pacific...

A car hit one of the workers working in our house this morning. He was cleaning the wall and the car smashed his bones.

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim will visit Rakudia village in Babuganj upazila under the district tomorrow to hear the success stories

I truly believe that happiness can flow from small things. Time spent with loved ones, an uplifting word from a casual acquaintance, a chance meeting with a long lost friend; all these seemingly mundane things can make us happy.

Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam says Bangladesh-China relation is being strengthened for the development of economy and infrastructural advancement.

Samsung halts the production of the Samsung Note 7 smart phone after the incidents of battery explosions. Sigh, I wished this cause and effect applied to all the armaments companies in the world – we'd at least see the end of war in Syria.

What has actually gone wrong in the South Asian landscape? If one singles Pakistan out in this South Asian equation, one then naturally wonders, why the leaders of a single country that is projected to take off as the next investment friendly area, be unwise to jeopardise regional integration that could turn South Asia to record the highest GDP growth by 2030?

Khadiza, a university student in Sylhet didn't respond to Badrul Alam's romantic proposition. He couldn't handle being rejected. He responded by attacking her with a machete in public. A bystander recorded it and the video went viral on social media.

China has been taken a strong place in the global economic landscape with its large GDP and rapid economic growth.

Daylong rain disrupted normal life in the district yesterday, preventing people from going to the temples on the occasion of Durga Puja,

Al last Premchand Robidas of Goalpara village in Aditmari upazila under the district has got back his 35 decimals of arable land from a

At last, villagers have erected a bamboo bridge on their own as a replacement for the middle section of the concrete bridge that

A Chinese, a Brazilian and a German were engaged in a round of bridge in one of the failed businesses, this one a casino, of an

The hunt for a successor to Ban Ki-moon has come an end at Turtle Bay, New York. Ban Ki-moon completes his second five-year term by the end of December 2016. As the 71st General Assembly went into session, UN corridors were abuzz with three issues –

This is the first time in my life I have a roommate. Well, we're not exactly sharing a room, we're sharing a two bedroom apartment with our own rooms. This is grad school in Michigan.