The World Bank plans to loan cash-strapped Pakistan $20 billion over the coming decade to nurture its private sector and bolster resilience to climate change, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said.

Beginning to read Fine Gråbøl’s What Kingdom, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitkin, is like sitting in a silent room, ...

As many as 50 migrants attempting to reach Spain by boat from West Africa may have drowned, migrant rights group Walking Borders said yesterday.

After news of a ceasefire agreement sparked mass rejoicing in Gaza, residents woke up yesterday to columns of smoke, rubble ...

Fire-wrecked Los Angeles got a break late on Wednesday as dangerous winds dropped, giving hope to weary firefighters still battling to snuff out deadly blazes.

Amilu Nasrin, a farmer from Borichhara village in Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila, began producing vermicompost at her home about 10 ...

The party of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan yesterday held formal reconciliatory talks with the government, aimed at cooling political instability in the country, both sides said.

UK patients are “coming to harm” with hospitals so overwhelmed people are dying in corridors awaiting treatment amid a “collapse in care standards”, a report said yesterday.

Student leader and Jatiya Nagorik Committee chief organiser Sarjis Alam led the “March for Felani” programme in Kurigram ...

In Phulbaria upazila of Mymensingh, the shivering cold of winter couldn’t dampen the spirit of hundreds who gathered in ...

Our initial study of the reports of the four commissions indicates that the recommendations are quite substantive.

Thousands of farmers in Kachua upazila, Bagerhat, are facing a critical situation as waterlogging has rendered over 1,000 ...