New gas reserve found in Bhola
Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited has discovered a new gas reserve of around 700 billion cubic feet near Shahbazpur in Bhola, raising the overall gas reserve of the area to around one trillion cubic feet.
Khaleda sits with BNP policymakers
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday night discussed with her party’s top policymakers about the political situation and organisational activities during her stay in London.
Muhith reacts against rice import from Myanmar
Finance minister AMA Muhith on Monday reacted against the recent government move to procure rice from Myanmar that continued forcing Rohingyas to flee to Bangladesh to save life.
BNP leader MK Anwar passes away
BNP standing committee member and former minister MK Anwar died in the early hours of Tuesday at his Elephant Road residence in the city. He was 85. Anwar, a bureaucrat-turned politician breathed his last around 1:20am, said BNP chairperson’s media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan.
Residents flee Deir Ezzor as Russian, SDF forces pound ISIS holdout
Near Deir Ezzor, Syria (CNN)It should be the height of tension: a final pocket of ISIS, under heavy bombardment, where leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi could possibly be hiding and from which civilians pour out daily.
Top US general reveals new info on Niger ambush
Washington (CNN)The US troops attacked in Niger were on their way back to their operating base when they were ambushed by 50 ISIS fighters, according to Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, who provided a timeline of the attack on Monday.
Dark horses, sure bets: Who could rule China in the next five years (and beyond)
Beijing (CNN)In the world's most populous nation, seven men sit atop 1.4 billion people. They are members of the ruling Communists' Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC), the top decision-making body in a one-party political system.
The amount of people trying to see Stephen Hawking's thesis crashed Cambridge University's website
(CNN)For the first time ever, influential British scientist Stephen Hawking's doctoral thesis is available to the public -- if you can get the web page to load.In honor of Open Access Week, the University of Cambridge on Monday put the 1966 PhD thesis, "Properties of Expanding Universes," on its open access repository. Shortly after it went live, requests to view the research crashed the website.
Bill O'Reilly 'mad at God' over sexual misconduct allegations
Bill O'Reilly has repeatedly blamed reports of sexual misconduct on a politically motivated media. On Monday, he admitted that he also blames a higher power.
Experiences of Rohingyas ‘heart-breaking and harrowing’: Queen Rania
Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan on Monday said it is unforgivable that the crisis of Rohingyas is unfolding on the world stage to a largely indifferent audience. The world seems to be silent towards them though many are acknowledging now the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslims.
