40pc private univ seats vacant

Government has approved the applications for opening six new private universities though some 40 per cent of the seats in the existing ones was vacant in last five years.

RMG export earnings from 11 EU countries fall in H1

Bangladesh’s earnings from the readymade garment exports to 11 European Union countries declined in the first half of the current financial year 2015-16 compared with that in the same period of last financial year due to a devaluation of the euro against the US dollar.

President for harnessing potentials of blue-economy

President Abdul Hamid on Monday said developing effective maritime policies at national, sub-regional and regional levels was important for better economic development of the Indian Ocean region.

PAY STRUCTURE DISPARITIES : Govt officers, univ teachers begin work abstention

Govern offices across the country saw no activities for two hours from the midday on Monday as over 4.30 lakh officers abstained from work demanding removal of disparities from the new pay structure.

A Mexican actress's tweet kick-started talks with 'El Chapo'

Without her help, Sean Penn says he never could have arranged a secret meeting with cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

Jailed in North Korea, pastor Hyeon Soo Lim hopes to go home to Canada

The doors open and a prisoner is marched in by two stern-faced North Korean guards, their demeanor expressing authority and righteous disdain for the inmate.

Playground gang rape has NYPD asking public for help

New York police are looking for five men who forced a father at gunpoint to leave his daughter behind so they could take turns raping her, according to a press release.

U.S. B-52 bomber flies over S. Korea in solidarity after N. Korean nuclear claim

Days after North Korea claimed it tested a hydrogen bomb, the United States responded with a display of military might on the Korean Peninsula.

Sheikh Mujib’s Homecoming Day observed

Homecoming Day of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding president of Bangladesh, was observed across the country in a befitting manner on Sunday.

Executive trying to wrest power from judiciary: CJ

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha on Sunday said the executive branch of the state was trying to wrest power from the judiciary.