Al Jazeera The Taliban have appointed five former commanders who spent more than a decade as prisoners in Guantanamo Bay as members of its political office in Qatar, where tentative talks to end the Afghan conflict are ongoing. The five commanders, Mohammad Fazl, Mohammed N ...বিস্তারিত
Abrar Hussain of DOT A new lawsuit has alleged that disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein forced a 16-year-old Polish model to touch his genitalia, subjecting her to years of harassment and emotional abuse as well as blocking her from a successful acting career as p ...বিস্তারিত
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT The Election Commission is going to hold a meeting on Sunday, with the aim to finalise the schedule of the 11th parliamentary election and decide when it will be announced. Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda made the announcement while briefin ...বিস্তারিত
CNN A man with a spinal-cord injury leaving him wheelchair bound has been able to walk thanks to a revolutionary new spinal implant. Two other men involved in the study were also able to regain control of their leg muscles after they were implanted with electrical stimulat ...বিস্তারিত
Arafat Hasan of DOT The Secretary of the Interior Department Ryan Zinke, a key figure in US President Trump’s effort to reduce environmental regulations and ramp up oil drilling, is facing increased scrutiny amid federal investigations into allegations that he abused trav ...বিস্তারিত
DOT Desk Myanmar officials visited camps for Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh on Wednesday in an effort to kick-start a process to repatriate hundreds of thousands who fled an army crackdown last year, reports the Financial Express. More than 700,000 Rohingya refugees ...বিস্তারিত
DOT Desk The cost of migration for Malaysia-bound Bangladeshi workers would come down under a proposed recruitment process, according to a decision of a joint working group meeting on Wednesday, reports The Financial Express. Besides, the market is expected to be opened wi ...বিস্তারিত
Anadolu Agency A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Syria declined to answer questions Wednesday on who controls the northeastern town of Tal Abyad. On Tuesday, the Turkish military shelled positions of the YPG, the Syrian branch of the PKK terrorist organization, in ...বিস্তারিত
Arafat Hasan of DOT A New York Times report has stated that Google is struggling to contain a growing internal backlash over its handling of sexual harassment and its workplace culture. Over the past week, chief executive Sundar Pichai and Google co-founder and parent compa ...বিস্তারিত
UNB German Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Fahrenholtz on Thursday welcomed the dialogue between the ruling party Awami League and Oikyafront leaders and beyond as an "important step forward". He expressed high confidence that "the elections will be very good and everybody ...বিস্তারিত