Costco's first China store was so popular it shut down traffic. But can it keep the buzz going?

Costco has built a cult following in the United States — now it's China's turn. The country's first Costco store is so popular that it had to shut down early on its first day because of too many shoppers.

Under the cover of president’s rule in Kashmir

THE lynchpin of the government’s legal measures to declare Article 370 inoperative and reorganise Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories is the constitution (application to Jammu and

HEAVY METAL IN COW MILK Regulators worried about leaks in dairy value chain

Excessive lead residues in almost all the 266 samples of raw and pasteurised cow milk and cadmium in all the samples that the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority found in April–May have the authorities worried, leaving them to look for further leaks in dairy value chain.

Four more die of dengue Patient hospitalisation declines

Four more people died of dengue in Dhaka, Jhenaidah and Rangpur on Tuesday though the rate of dengue patients hospitalisation has come down compared to the past few weeks.

Fakhrul asks youths to spread to villages, organise movement

Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday urged the youths to spread to villages and towns, make the people aware of current misrule and wage

BRTA moves afresh to raise bus fares

The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority has taken a fresh move to increase the fares of buses and minibuses all over the country following a proposal from the bus operators.

BADDA LYNCHING Why family won’t be paid Tk 1cr in damages: HC

The High Court on Tuesday issued a rule asking the government to explain as to why Tk 1 crore should not be given to the families of Badda lynching victim Taslima Begum Renu as compensation.

Trump leans into his chaotic style

President Donald Trump tried to explain his agitating approach to life, politics and the rest of the world in a flash of impatience during a blustery news conference in France.

Boris Johnson, GMOs and glyphosate

IN HIS first speech to parliament as British prime minister, Boris Johnson said: ‘Let’s start now to liberate the UK’s extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules and let’s develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world.’

Trump says Modi feels he has ‘it under control’ in Kashmir

US President Donald Trump said Monday he had no need to help mediate between Pakistan and India over tensions in disputed Kashmir because prime minister Narendra Modi feels he has it ‘under control’.