Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus has raised the issue of reviving the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) during a meeting with Sergio Gor, the newly appointed US Ambassador to India who also holds the role of Special Envoy for South and Central Asia. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) ...

Prices of loose soybean and super palm oil have gone up in the market without any official announcement from refiners and marketers. Over the past three to four days, the price of these two types of edible oil has increased by around Tk 5 per litre. A market visit to Mohakhali, Tejgaon Colony and Karwan Bazar in Dhaka on Wednesday, ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday called on US companies to expand their investments in Bangladesh, highlighting the country’s reform initiatives and growth potential. He made the call while speaking at the US-Bangladesh Executive Business Roundtable, titled “Advancing Reform, Resilience and Growth”, organised by the US-Bangladesh Business Council (USBBC) at a New York hotel. Top US companies, including MetLife, ...

A preparatory meeting was held today at the conference room of the District Administrator’s office in Sylhet on the celebration of World Tourism Day. Deputy Commissioner of Sylhet Md Sarwar Alam presided over the meeting, which was attended by representatives of various government departments, environmental organizations, NGOs, tourism-related organizations, and journalists from print and electronic media. The meeting emphasized the ...

Typhoon Ragasa has made landfall in southern China, where nearly two million people have been evacuated in preparation for its arrival. It comes after authorities said at least 17 people had been killed and more missing in Taiwan after a lake burst on Tuesday, causing severe flooding in the island’s east. Ragasa was downgraded from a super to a severe ...

One of the cruellest and most devastating diseases – Huntington’s – has been successfully treated for the first time, say doctors. The disease runs through families, relentlessly kills brain cells and resembles a combination of dementia, Parkinson’s and motor neurone disease. An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in ...

A 700-year-old church tower has been suspended 45 feet above ground as part of a major City of London building project. The tower of All Hallows Staining Church was balanced on stilts above a 60,000 square foot excavation site at 50 Fenchurch Street in what developers called a “never seen before feat of engineering”. A “bottoming out” ceremony on Tuesday ...

Sir Sadiq Khan has said Donald Trump has shown he is “racist, sexist, misogynistic and Islamophobic” after the president made comments about him to the United Nations. Speaking to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, Trump said London had “a terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been changed, it’s been so changed”. He added: “Now they want to ...

A person has been arrested in connection with a cyber-attack which has caused days of disruption at several European airports including Heathrow. The National Crime Agency (NCA) said a man in his forties was arrested in West Sussex “as part of an investigation into a cyber incident impacting Collins Aerospace”. There have been hundreds of flight delays after Collins Aerospace ...

Standing barefoot in a grassy patch of dandelions, Iris Phoebe Weaver excitedly begins listing the many ways the modest plant can be used medicinally and in cooking. “I just picked a bunch of dandelion flowers yesterday and threw them in vodka with some orange peel and some sugar, and that’s my dandelion aperitif,” Weaver said. “That will make a lovely ...