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Bongo fined £70,000 for premium-rate monkey business

Regulator fines young people's information service after parents complain of huge bills from £2.50-a-time texts

He's a "cheeky, funny, super-intelligent monkey" who claims he can answer any question y

Cycling for breast cancer awareness

By Kavira Devgan

Strategic design consultant Jaskeerat Bedi participated in one of the toughest cycling races in the

A lack of women on TV panel shows may not be the worst injustice, but it matters

Being the only woman on a seven-strong panel on a TV show is importantly similar to being the one woman in seven in the House of Commons - and if we can't fix the trivial issues, the important ones will be even harder

Not everyone is delighted with the BBC's simple solution to a simple problem. The problem is tha

The lessons of Geneva

As long as Bashar Assad thinks he is winning, diplomacy will fail, writes AMSA Amin

WHEN a man as patient and pragmatic as Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN's special envoy on Syria, sounds

The drying of the West

Drought is forcing westerners to consider wasting less water, writes John Huston

THE first rule for staying alive in a desert is

The Urdu rate of growth

Slowly, the lights may be coming on again, in Pakistan writes Anwar Mehmood

EVEN the swankiest chandelier is not much use these days without electricity. Just as Shahbaz Sharif

Off the track

Beauty lies in deeds

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Shakira, the singing sensation, has long been interested in helping

Paranoia over Ukraine

The US would be outraged if Russia were to propose a military alliance or free trade agreement with Canada while Britain would be on the defensive if Russia promoted such ties with a breakaway Scotland, writes Michael Jansen

The US would be outraged if Russia were to propose

Stateless in Nepal

Around 4.3 million of Nepal’s 27 million population lack citizenship documents, rendering them stateless, writes Mallika Aryal

Around 4.3 million of Nepal’s 27 million population lack citizenship documents, rendering them state

Bangla the language of science

At two functions on the twenty-first February , Prime Minister

Situation in Sreepur hostile, vote suspended

A 'critical' situation at Gazipur's Sreepur Upazila has led the Election Commission (EC) to suspend the Upazila election there, three days before it was due, reports bdnews24.com. "We are suspending it because the situation is not conducive for a proper election," Election Commissioner Md Shah Nawaz told reporters on Tuesday. Sreepur was supposed to vote on Mar 15 along with 80 other Upazlias during the third phase of the local election. This is the first such cancellation after the start of the fourth Upazila Parishad election. Iqbal Hassan Sabuj, Organising Secretary for Awami League's Gazipur Unit, has been campaigning for the chairman post with the ruling party's backing. Sabuj is known to be close to AKM Mozammel Huq , Liberation... read more>>

Prop up health sector dev

PM asks pvt entrepreneurs

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday urged the private sector read more>>