A new UN report shows that Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, has become the world’s largest city with 41.9 million people, while Bangladesh’s Dhaka ranks second with a population of 36.6 million.

More than Tk 549 crore sit idle for over a year now in an account of a suspected shell company linked to S Alam Group, but investigators and Islami Bank officials are unable to trace the account ...

China’s stranglehold on the rare earths industry -- from natural reserves and mining through processing and innovation -- is the result of a decades-long drive, now giving Beijing crucial leverage in ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has condemned the recent attacks on baul singers, terming them “heinous ...

India said yesterday that it has received a request from Bangladesh for the extradition of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and that the request is being examined.

There is a rule in complex systems: fragility gathers at the bottom, but the tremor is felt at the top. Bangladesh's food ...

When Bangladesh Bank (BB) recently announced that shareholders of five weak shariah banks slated for merger would receive ...

The United Nations Committee for Development Policy (UN CDP) has asked Bangladesh to provide clarification on its economic situation ahead of the country’s scheduled graduation from least developed ...

Lt Col Tajul Islam said most fires in the slum are caused by electrical short circuits or gas stove leakages. Prof Adil Muhammad Khan, president of the Bangladesh Institute of Planners, said the ...

A massive fire ripped through multiple high-rise residential blocks in Hong Kong’s northern Tai Po district yesterday, ...

Employees of five shariah-based banks, which will be merged soon, are likely to face cuts in salary and other benefits due to the poor financial health of these banks.

Thailand airlifted patients and flew critical supplies, including oxygen tanks, into a submerged southern city yesterday, as the death toll from some of the region’s worst floods in years climbed to 3 ...