Hong Kongers mark Mid Autumn Festival with protests and a new anthem
Mid Autumn Festival is typically celebrated with lanterns, lion dances and mooncakes, but this year Hong Kong is adding a more recent tradition: protests.
You can silence Assam but not Bengal: Mamata
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee upped the ante against citizenship screening exercise in the state by alleging that NRC was a mere tactic to divert attention from the economic issues
Gazipur warehouse catches fire
A fire broke out at a warehouse in Dheerasram area of Gazipur on Friday.
Three more die of dengue
Two women and a teenage girl died of dengue in Dhaka, Chattogram and Barishal on Thursday.
BNP announces fresh 13-day agitation
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday formed human chains across the country to press for immediate release of party chairperson Khaleda Zia, alleging that the court was used to convict
Design multi-storey buildings in a planned way
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked the architects to design multi-storey buildings in a planned way taking the movement of people and traffic in surrounding roads, open space and
Bangladesh HC orders monthly wages for public bus drivers
Bus companies must appoint drivers on monthly wages and give up the practice of making payments on daily or trip basis within six months to check reckless driving mainly blamed for road
Leonardo da Vinci may have painted another 'Mona Lisa.' Now, there's a legal battle over who owns it
With her straight dark hair and beguiling smile, the so-called "Isleworth Mona Lisa" bears an uncanny resemblance to her namesake in the Louvre.
Indonesian forests are burning, and Malaysia and Singapore are choking on the fumes
Malaysian authorities distributed half a million face masks to residents on Tuesday after large-scale forest fires in Indonesia spread smoke and thick smog to neighboring countries.
Water detected in atmosphere of potentially habitable super-Earth
For the first time, astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of an exoplanet -- a planet outside our solar system -- and discovered both water vapor and temperatures that could potentially
