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Grand Mosque, Mecca, June 16, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Saleh Salem
Bangladesh

Over 38,000 Bangladeshi pilgrims reach Saudi Arabia for Hajj 

A total of 96 Hajj flights have landed in Saudi Arabia so far

Students of Barishal University during a torch procession demanding removal of their Vice Chancellor Suchita Sharmin on 11 May 2025. Photo: UNB
Education

Barishal University students begin academic shutdown

Representational image. Photo: Collected
Environment

Met office issues lightning alert in 21 dists

An Indian security force trooper keeps guard next to vehicles carrying travellers including tourists outside the airport in Srinagar, following a suspected militant attack in south Kashmir's scenic Pahalgam, April 23, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Sanna Irshad Mattoo/File Photo
South Asia

India reopens 32 airports after ceasefire with Pakistan

A view of the state-owned Intercontinental Hotel in Dhaka, illuminated in the evening. The photo was taken on Sunday. Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS
Bangladesh

InterContinental seeks Tk900cr govt-backed loan to recover from losses

Commuters resort to using rickshaws amid a lack of CNGs on 16 February 2025. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Is a rickshaw-free Dhaka really possible?

A man splashing his face with water during intense Summer heat. File Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS
Health

Beat the heat: DGHS issues health advisory as temperatures soar

US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 11, 2025. Keystone/EDA/Martial Trezzini/Handout via Reuters
Global Economy

US, China hail 'constructive' Geneva trade talks, details due today

The United Nations headquarters building is pictured with a UN logo in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, US, March 1, 2022. File Photo: REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Climate Change

As world heats up, UN cools itself the cool way: with water

A stock image of a man playing chess in a tournament in Kandahar in June 2022. Photo: AFP
Middle East

Taliban suspends chess in Afghanistan over gambling concerns

South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives for his impeachment trial at the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea, January 21, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/Pool/File Photo
Politics

South Korea ex-president Yoon in court again for criminal trial

Former Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen speaks during the annual Forum 2000 conference in Prague, Czech Republic, October 14, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Dorota Holubova/File Photo
Politics

Former Taiwan president Tsai to make sensitive visit to Britain this week

Israeli military vehicles operate in Gaza, by the Israel-Gaza border, as seen from Israel, May 3, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen
Middle East

Gaza's civil defence agency says 'at least 10' dead in Israeli strike