Muslim pilgrims have been streaming into Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca ahead of the start of the Hajj later this week, as the annual pilgrimage returns to its monumental scale.…

More than 35 people were killed in a building fire in an area heavily populated with foreign workers in Kuwait, the interior ministry said on Wednesday. More than 30 people were also injured, a hospital official told Interior Minister Sheikh Fahd Al-Yousef as he visited victims, according to footage posted by Al-Jarida newspaper.

Sales of sacrificial animals at 22 cattlemarkets including two permanent haats in the capital will start tomorrow,five days before the second largest religious festival of the Muslimcommunity,…

The United States has said it will continue to advocate with countries in the region, and at the United Nations, for a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Myanmar so that the Rohingyas…

The World Health Organisation on Tuesday said a case of human infection with bird flucaused by the H9N2 virus was detected in a four-year-old child in the eastern Indian state of West…

A fire broke out at the factory of Gartex Garments Limited in Chattogram city on Wednesday morning. Six units of the Fire Service are working to control the blaze, confirmed Md. Abdullah,…

Police thwarted attempts by pro-Palestinian demonstrators to set up a new encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, where officers cleared a previous camp this spring…

US pharmaceutical and cosmetics giantJohnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $700 million to settle allegations itmisled customers about the safety of its talcum-based powder products,…

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken washeading on Wednesday to talks in key mediator Qatar after Hamas gave a replyto a US-led proposal for a ceasefire in war-ravaged Gaza. Blinken,…

MAKKAH, Saudi Arabia, June 12, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Hundreds of thousands ofMuslims have flocked to the Saudi holy city of Makkah for the hajj pilgrimageunfolding this year in the shadow…

Peter D Haas, the US ambassador to Dhaka, has resigned from his position at the State Department in protest of a sudden shift in US foreign policy regarding Bangladesh’s general…

Bangladesh’s rising disposable income is not unknown. Crowded shopping malls, such as Jamuna Future Park, one of the largest in South Asia, and new billboards advertising everything…

The number of passengers traveling via waterways from Dhaka during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha holiday is likely to be higher compared of Eid-ul Fitr, resulting in potential overcrowding,…

He had had visitors just once before, years ago when he first arrived in prison at 14. Blindfolded and led into a room by a masked guard, he said he was made to sit on a plastic chair…