Ratan Tata, the former Tata Group chairman who put a staid and sprawling Indian conglomerate on the global stage with a string of high-profile acquisitions, has died, the Tata Group said in a statement early Wednesday. He was 86. Tata, who ran the conglomerate for more than 20 years as chairman, had been undergoing intensive care in a Mumbai hospital, ...

It’s now autumn in Bangladesh, according to the season but the country is experiencing rainfall more often, something which we used to see in the rainy season. So it is a necessity to equip yourselves properly to combat with the sudden rainfall. And there is urgency to maintain a stylish look also. Who doesn’t know that how tough it is ...

A total of 150 stranded Bangladeshi nationals were repatriated from Libya on Thursday. The repatriation has taken place under the joint initiative of the foreign ministry, Bangladesh Embassy in Tripoli and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), a foreign ministry’s press release said. A Buraq Air charter flight with the returnees departed Tripoli in the morning and landed at Hazrat ...

Acting Chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Tarique Rahman today underscored the need for holding fair elections for continuation of democracy. “We must hold a free and fair election aiming to keep the country’s democracy continue,” he said in a message marking Shaheed Jehad Day. Nazir Uddin Ahmed Jihad, a Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal activist of Ullapara upazila in Sirajganj, was ...

Police recovered the body of a former additional secretary of the Ministry of Industries from a resort in Srimangal in Moulvibazar on Thursday morning. The deceased Salahuddin Mahmud was serving as the deputy managing director general of the SME Foundation under the Ministry of Industries. Srimangal police station Officer-in-Charge Aminul Islam said that Salahuddin had been attending programmes in Moulvibazar ...

Greek football was in shock Thursday at the death of Panathinaikos and Greece international George Baldock, with tributes uniting even the country’s usually hostile rival fans. The 31-year-old English-born right-back — a former Sheffield United stalwart in the Premier League — was found dead on Wednesday evening in a swimming pool at his home in the southern Athens suburb of ...

A Dhaka court on Thursday send former Member of Parliament from Sunamganj-5 Mohibur Rahman Manik to jail in a case over the attack on a student during the mass uprising. Judicial Magistrate Alamgir Hossain passed the order after Manik was produced before the court in the morning, said officer-in-charge (OC) of Sunamganj Sadar police station Nazmul Haque. Defense lawyer Abdul ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus’s press wing has clarified that his recent remarks on “pressing the reset button” in an interview with Voice of America is being misinterpreted by some people. “He (Prof Yunus) did not mean wiping out Bangladesh’s proud history,” chief adviser’s press wing said in a statement on Thursday, reports UNB. When the Chief Adviser Prof Yunus ...

Bangladesh lost the three-match T20I series to India after suffering a 86 runs defeat in the second T20I  at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Wednesday. Earlier, after being asked to bat first, India lost their top three batters within the powerplay, however, Nitish Reddy and Rinku Singh had a fantastic partnership for the fourth wicket as the young batters ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday praised Russia’s cooperation in the power and energy sectors and acknowledged Russia’s role as a supplier of wheat and fertiliser to Bangladesh. These issues were discussed when Russian Ambassador to Bangladesh Alexander V Mantytskiy paid a farewell call on the Chief Adviser at his Tejgaon office in the capital, reports UNB. He said ...