World
The United States has proposed security guarantees for Ukraine lasting 15 years as part of a draft peace plan, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday, while stressing that a longer commitment would be needed to deter Russia from future aggression.Zelenskyy said he would prefer US-backed guaran...
National,Country, Districts
UNB, Rangpur: A man allegedly surrendered before police after killing his father over a family feud at Maheshpur village in Sadar upazila of Rangpur district on Monday.The deceased was identified as Nurul Mia, 50 of the village.Abdul Gafur, officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police Station, said...
AFP, Naypyidaw, Myanmar: Myanmar's dominant pro-military party is "winning a majority" in the first phase of junta-run elections, a party source told AFP on Monday, after democracy watchdogs warned the poll would entrench military rule.The armed forces snatched power in a 2021 coup, bu...
AFP, Seoul: South Korea's former first lady was alleged by prosecutors Monday to have accepted lavish bribes totalling over $200,000, including fine art, jewellery and a handbag, as well as meddling in state affairs.Kim Keon Hee, the wife of disgraced ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol, was arreste...
AFP, New Delhi: India's navy boasts aircraft carriers, submarines, warships and frontline vessels of steel, as it spreads its maritime power worldwide.But none of its vessels is as unusual as its newest addition which sets sail on its maiden Indian Ocean crossing on Monday -- a wooden stit...
Three Turkish police were killed and nine other people wounded in an operation Monday against the Islamic State group in the northwest of the country, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said.The fighting took place at Yalova on the Sea of Marmara during one of scores of raids against the militant group...
BSS, Kishoreganj: Nikli upazila of the district recorded the lowest temperature in the country for the second consecutive day on Monday.The temperature dropped to 10 degrees Celsius in the haor-dominated upazila on Monday morning, according to the Meteorological Department.Earlier, on Sunday m...
National,World
The United States on Monday pledged $2 billion for U.N. humanitarian aid, even as President Donald Trump’s administration continues to cut U.S. foreign assistance and urges United Nations agencies to “adapt, shrink or die” amid new financial realities.While the amount is only a fra...
An Interoceanic Train accident in southern Mexico has left at least 13 people dead and dozens injured, disrupting rail services along a key route linking the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.According to officials, the train derailed on Sunday while negotiating a curve near the town of Nizanda, ...
National,Politics
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Monday cleared the way for Nagorik Oikya President Mahmudur Rahman Manna to contest the upcoming national polls by staying a High Court order that had rejected his plea seeking removal of his name from the loan defaulters' list. "Stay for ...
National,Politics,Culture & Entertainment
The Jagannath University administration has asked general students to vacate the campus by 3:30pm on Monday for the university’s Central Students’ Union (JnUCSU) and Hall Students’ Union elections.The directive was issued through an emergency notice signed by the university’s...
Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Monday acknowledged an increase in attempts to smuggle arms into Bangladesh through border points ahead of the national election, saying law enforcement agencies are regularly intercepting and seizing the weapons.“Some weapons are i...
World,Business & Commerce
Asian shares showed a mixed performance on Monday in light trading following a muted post-Christmas session on Wall Street, even as tensions escalated over Taiwan. U.S. futures were largely unchanged.The Chinese military said it dispatched air, naval, and rocket forces to conduct joint exercises nea...
Sixteen elderly residents were killed Sunday evening in a fire that broke out at a retirement home in Manado, North Sulawesi Province, police said.Authorities said the blaze, which engulfed the single-story facility while residents were asleep, left 15 survivors who received treatment at two local h...
UNB, Chapainawabganj: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members seized 2.15 kg of gunpowder and materials used to make crude bombs from an abandoned mango orchard in Chapainawabganj’s Shibganj upazila on Sunday night.A team from the Chapainawabganj RAB camp conducted a drive based on secret informa...
UNB, Mymensingh: Train services on Dhaka–Mymensingh route have remained suspended since early Monday after two bogies of Agnibina Express derailed in Gafargaon upazila of Mymensingh district due to the removal of a section of the railway tracks by miscreants.No casualties were reported in the ...
At least 13 people were killed and dozens more injured after a train derailed in southern Mexico, authorities said, disrupting service along the rail line linking the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.The Interoceanic Train, which connects Oaxaca and Veracruz, went off the tracks on Sunday while ...
World,ICT,Science & Technology
Russia has successfully placed three Iranian communications satellites into orbit, marking the second such launch this year, according to Iranian state television.The report said a Russian rocket lifted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in eastern Russia on Sunday, carrying the satellites into a rou...
North Korea on Monday said it launched long-range strategic cruise missiles into the sea as part of efforts to verify the effectiveness of its nuclear deterrent, days after revealing apparent progress in building its first nuclear-powered submarine.The missile launches on Sunday marked Pyongyang&rsq...
The foreign ministers of Thailand and Cambodia began two days of discussions in China on Sunday as Beijing moves to bolster its role in easing tensions between the two neighbors following the signing of a new ceasefire agreement.The ceasefire aims to end weeks of clashes along the disputed border th...
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