Sri Lanka raises cooking gas prices by 23 percent
Sri Lanka on Monday raised prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by nearly a quarter, blaming higher global prices triggered by the Iran war. As...
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Hungary’s opposition surfs grassroots wave ahead of key election
Like many of her fellow volunteers, Hungarian beautician Krisztina Menczel sat idle in the past elections that kept nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban in power....
Israel hits South Pars petrochemical plant in Iran
Israel’s defence minister said Monday that the country has attacked the South Pars petrochemical plant at Asaluyeh in southern Iran, amid a war that began...
Jolie-Pitt’s daughter Shiloh in K-pop music video
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Vaccination lapses behind measles surge
Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Sakhawat Husain told Parliament today that the recent spike in measles cases in Bangladesh is a result of vaccination...
GDP growth slows to 3.03pc in Q2
The provisional gross domestic product (GDP) growth in Bangladesh slowed to 3.03 percent in the second quarter of the current fiscal year, compared to a...
IRGC intel chief killed in strike
The head of the intelligence organisation of Iran’s ?elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed on Monday in a “terrorist attack by the American-Zionist...
Ex-Jubo Dal leader accuses Hasina of ‘disappearance’
A former Jubo Dal leader has filed a complaint with the International Crimes Tribunal, accusing former prime minister Sheikh Hasina of orchestrating his enforced disappearance...
Corruption clouds Sirajganj SDE
Questions have been raised within the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) regarding the unusually long tenure of a Sub-Divisional Engineer (SDE) in the Sirajganj Roads...