Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s interim president Friday until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country’s economic collapse forced him from office.The speaker…
The government has worked out an action plan for 2022-23 fiscal for the agricultural sector to ensure food security as the world faces pressure in food production due to COVID-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war.The plan has been worked out in line with…
Without a clear path for jumpstarting peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, President Joe Biden offered American money as a balm while visiting a local hospital on Friday.“Palestinians and Israelis deserve equal measures of freedom, securi…
Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi denied the accusations in an election fraud charge against her when she testified for the first time on the case Friday at the prison court in the capital Naypyitaw, a legal official said.The army seized power fro…
A joyride to historic Panam City in Narayanganj turned tragic for a group of university students Friday after one of them was killed in a road accident while three others escaped with injuries.Twenty-year-old Mahima, a third-year student in English at …
Tens of thousands of Iraqis attended a mass prayer in a Baghdad suburb on Friday called for by an influential Shiite cleric, sparking fears of instability amid a deepening political crisis that has followed the country’s national elections.Followers of…
Russian missiles struck a city in central Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100 others far from the front lines, Ukrainian authorities said. Ukraine’s president accused Russia of deliberately targeting civilians in …
Police rescued 20 tourists, including women and children, after their boat ran out of fuel amid rain and got stuck on Kaptai Lake in Rangamati district on Thursday nightAccording to Additional Superintendent of Rangamati police Mahmuda Begum, the touri…
Three motorcycle riders were killed when a private car hit their bike on the Konabari flyover in Gazipur on Friday noon, police said.The deceased have been identified as Raju Islam, 26, Md Shamim, 26 and Shahin Islam, 31, from Konabari’s Dewliyapara ar…
Two minor children drowned in a pond near their home in Mongla upazila of Bagerhat on Friday, police said.The children were identified as Md Jim, 5, son of Delwar Sheikh, and his cousin Brishti, 4, daughter of Lavlu Sheikh, of Telikhali village.Read: 8…
Police arrested three people including a woman with 1,200 pieces of Yaba from Nabinagar municipality area of Brahmanbaria Thursday night.The arrestees have been identified as Liton Dev, his wife, Moni Rani Dev, and accomplice Mainul Islam. They are res…
The death toll from the devastating floods in the country rose to 119 on Friday morning, with another death in Moulvibazar district in the past 24 hours.The latest victim had drowned in floodwaters, according to the Directorate General of Health Servic…
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