Nepal border blockade: Hospitals running out of drugs
For weeks, blockades along the border between Nepal and India have caused fuel shortages. Now the tiny South Asian nation says it's running out of medicine.
Alibaba makes $5 billion in 1st 90 minutes on Singles' Day
It's been a tough year for Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba. The stock has plunged. There are still concerns about fake goods on its sites. And the Chinese economy has slowed down dramatically.
Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt dies
Helmut Schmidt, who was West Germany's chancellor from 1974 to 1982, has died in his hometown of Hamburg, staffers in two of his offices said Tuesday.
GSP will be top issue at TICFA meeting: Tofail
Commerce minister Tofail Ahmed on Tuesday said that restoration of Generalised System of Preferences for Bangladesh would be the key talking point at the meeting of Trade and Investment Cooperation Framework Agreement that would be held on November 23 in Washington.
Economy in the dumps in first quarter
All major economic indicators contributing to the growth of gross domestic product performed astonishingly badly in the first quarter suggesting the government has a tough task ahead trying to come close to its projections for the current fiscal year.
Army man hacked at cantt checkpoint
An assailant hacked an army soldier at a checkpoint at Kachukhet at Dhaka Cantonment on Tuesday morning.
Full implementation of CHT treaty demanded
Leaders of different political and socio-cultural organisations on Tuesday demanded constitutional recognition of ethnic minority people as ‘indigenous’ and full implementation of the 1997 Chittagong Hill Tracts Treaty for establishing their rights.
Inflation inches down in Oct
The point-to-point inflation slightly went down to 6.19 per cent in October from 6.24 per cent in the previous month due mainly to increased supply of winter vegetables in the domestic markets and lower prices of consumer goods and fuel oil in international markets, according to Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.
Russia could be banned from 2016 Olympics after doping report
Russian track and field athletes could be banned from the 2016 Olympics after an independent report detailed an apparently state-sponsored doping program.
Climate change could create 100 million poor, over half a billion homeless
Rising sea levels from unchecked carbon emissions could drive more than 100 million people into extreme poverty and submerge the homes of over half a billion, two new reports say.
