October 2024

Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi slammed as "a disaster" on Monday what he called US obstruction of the United Nations Security Council in relation to the wars in Lebanon and Gaza. In a phone call with his Chinese counterpart Wang…

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson won the 2024 Nobel economics prize "for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity", the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. The prestigious award, formally…

Democratic White House candidate Kamala Harris will release a medical report Saturday confirming her fitness to be president, her campaign said, in a bid to put pressure on rival Donald Trump to publish his own health records. An adviser…

Pori Moni and Mostafizur Noor Imran starrer "Rongila Kitab" is set to premiere on November 8 on OTT platform Hoichoi. Directed by Anam Biswas, the political thriller web series is adapted from Kingkor Ahsan's novel of the same name.…

Returning England captain Ben Stokes said on Monday he hopes a reused pitch for the second Test against Pakistan in Multan will play into the tourists' hands rather than the spin-heavy hosts. Desperate to level the three-match series…

Durbar Rajshahi picked Taskin Ahmed in the first call while Liton Das and Mahmudullah were roped in by Dhaka Capitals and Fortune Barishal respectively in the players' draft for the 11th edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL)…

Israeli military strikes on Gaza overnight killed at least 19 Palestinians, medics said yesterday, while forces continued to push deeper into the Jabalia area, where international relief agencies say thousands of people are trapped.…

A Japanese actor who was the voice of "Doraemon", a cartoon cat robot beloved by children in Japan and other countries has died, her agency said Friday. Nobuyo Oyama was 90. For a quarter of a century until 2005, Oyama lent her…

Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, actress Shomi Kaiser, folk singer and former lawmaker Momtaz Begum, ex-state minister Tarana Halim, and 13 others were sued yesterday for attempting to kill a BNP activist in June 2022. Syed Hasan…

A case was filed yesterday against Sajeeb Wazed Joy, former prime minister Sheikh Hasina's son and ICT adviser, Zunaid Ahmed Palak, former state minister for ICT, and 17 others over selling citizens' National ID (NID) information.…