Paddy prices should be set at Tk 1,200 per maund (1 maund = 37.42 kg) by adding the value of farm labour cost with the production cost, Bangladesh Economic Association has suggested. Source of shared Link

Same-sex couples tied the knot in emotional scenes in Taiwan on Friday, the first legal marriages in Asia hailed by activists as a social revolution for the region. Source of shared Link

BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has accused the government of pushing Khaleda Zia towards her death by keeping her in jail without proper medical care. Source of shared Link

With India's ruling Hindu nationalists headed for a stunning election victory on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's powerful right hand man, Amit Shah, could reap his reward as a potential home minister,

Australia opener Usman Khawaja was cleared of serious injury after taking a nasty blow to the head and being forced to retire hurt from a World Cup warmup against West Indies in Southampton on Wednesday.

British Prime Minister Theresa May’s final Brexit gambit was in tatters on Wednesday after her offer of a vote on a second referendum and closer trading arrangements failed to win over either opposition

Indonesian President Joko Widodo comfortably won re-election in last month’s poll, an official count showed on Tuesday, throwing the spotlight on his opponent who refused to concede as his supporters gathered

Muslims in Nayabans, an unremarkable village in northern India, say they remember a time when their children played with Hindu youths, and people from either faith chatted when the frequented each other's

An armed group entered a bar in the Brazilian northern city of Belem on Sunday and fired at patrons, killing 11 people and leaving one wounded, according to local media reports. Source of shared Link

The Supreme Court will clarify its instructions restraining the media from reporting sub-judice cases, Law Minister Anisul Huq has said. Source of shared Link

Pope Francis paid tribute on Saturday to journalists killed while doing their jobs, saying media freedom is a key indicator of a country's health. Source of shared Link

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling alliance is likely to win a big majority in parliament after a mammoth general election that ended on Sunday, most exit polls showed, a far better showing than

US F-16 fighter jet crashes into warehouse Source of shared Link

A Bangladesh Chhatra League leader and his associates have allegedly chopped off four fingers of a young man in Satkhira’s Kolaroa following a dispute over ownership of a piece of land. Source of shared

The government has ordered the teachers to not take smokeless tobacco products like zarda and gul, and betel leaf at high schools across Bangladesh. Source of shared Link

Bangladesh has officially launched the new five-year strategy to tackle obstetric fistula in women with the support of the UN population agency UNFPA. Source of shared Link

There is no difference of opinion between the government and businesses over enforcing the new value added tax or VAT law, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal says. Source of shared Link

President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines has recalled his country’s ambassador to Canada after Ottawa failed to take back tons of rubbish it had dumped in the Southeast Asian country, the Philippine

The government may increase the size of its annual development programme or ADP for the upcoming fiscal year by more than 15 percent to over Tk 2 trillion compared with the original allocation this year.

Mumbai Indians clinch record 4th IPL title Source of shared Link