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Pope Francis, the spiritual leader of the Catholic Church, and Bangladesh Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus have jointly launched a "Pope Francis Yunus 3Zero Club" in Rome in an effort to usher in a ...

Prof Yunus highlighted Bangladesh's commitment to uplifting communities, fostering entrepreneurship, and advancing sustainable development.

The prosecutors' move to seek a "provisional execution" on the public office ban - a tough, rarely used tool that means the ban would stand irrespective of any appeal - casts doubt on Le Pen's chances ...

Hundreds of workers of the Beximco Industrial Park, located in the Sarabo area at Gazipur's Kashimpur, have blockaded the Chandra-Nabinagar highway, demanding immediate payment of outstanding salary ...

A German government spokesperson said Olaf Scholz urged Putin to begin talks with Kyiv that would open the way for a "just and lasting peace" as the leaders held their first phone call since December ...

Austrian Ambassador to Bangladesh, stationed in New Delhi, Dr Katharina Wieser, met BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today (16 November). The meeting, which lasted for about an hour, ...

Negotiators have made progress by streamlining the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) draft text, which is seen as a positive step forward ...

শুধু হত্যা নয়, ভয়াবহ কায়দায় হত্যার ঘটনা দিন দিন বাড়ছে। বাড়ছে বললে কম বলা হবে, বলতে হবে খুব ঘন ঘন এ ধরনের ঘটনা ঘটছে। প্রতিটি ঘটনা আলাদা এবং এতোটাই নিষ্ঠুর যে মানুষ বিস্মিত বা শোকাভিভূত হওয়ার ক্ষ ...

The unusual visit from Nov 12 to Nov 15 discussed a $7-billion bailout within six weeks of its approval by the IMF board, but came too early for the first review of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF), d ...

In a statement, the bureau said it was aware of the messages, many of which used ethnic slurs and instructed the recipients to pick cotton, a reference to past enslavement of Black people in the Unite ...

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum is one of the few international meetings both Taiwan and China take part it, though Taiwan does not send its president, given China's objections ...