Acting President calls for unity on national interest, democratic values

Acting President Hafiz Uddin Ahmed Bir Bikram on Wednesday said differences of opinion are a natural feature of democracy, but there should be no division when it comes to national ...

US regulators approve Moderna flu vaccine

Vaccine manufacturer Moderna said Wednesday the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved its new influenza vaccine, nearly six months after the regulator briefly rejected an application for review.The ...

Climate change made Canadian wildfires twice as likely: study

Human-caused climate change made the extreme fire conditions behind this year's Canadian wildfires twice as likely to happen, a study said Thursday.Although the season began with below-normal activity, prolonged hot ...

Acting Speaker calls for building discrimination-free Bangladesh against imperialism, hegemony

Acting Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad Barrister Kayser Kamal, MP, today called for building a discrimination-free Bangladesh free from imperialism and hegemony, urging all to remain steadfast in upholding the ...

Israeli military says two soldiers killed in southern Lebanon

Two Israeli reserve soldiers were killed during combat in southern Lebanon, the military said Thursday, where Israel has been fighting Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.The army identified them as Major Harel ...

Chile president announces reforms targeting organized crime

Chilean President Jose Antonio Kast will push Congress to approve legislative reforms to fight organized crime, he said during a national address on Wednesday, echoing one of his chief campaign ...

Yemen's Houthis say attacked two Saudi oil tankers

Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis said on Wednesday that they attacked two Saudi oil tankers, as the rebels pressed on with their maritime blockade of the kingdom.These were the eighth and ninth ...

July Mass Uprising Day observed at UN

The Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations in New York on Wednesday commemorated July Mass Uprising Day with a reception attended by permanent representatives, diplomats, senior UN officials ...

Moheshkhali LNG terminal resumes operations, relief to Bangladesh’s gas crisis

Bangladesh's prolonged gas supply crisis is expected to ease gradually after the damaged floating LNG terminal at Moheshkhali resumed partial operations following a nearly two-week outage that had severely disrupted ...

No scope for negligence in curbing river pollution: PM

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman today said there is no scope for negligence in taking tough and coordinated measures to curb river pollution, stating that failure to act effectively now would ...