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The attacks on fuel infrastructure sparked large fires and dense smoke, worsening air pollution and contaminating rainfall in the city ...

Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC has approved a proposal to bring US-based B100 Holdings LLC as a strategic investor in its mobile financial services subsidiary mCash Ltd, according to a price sensitive ...

Bangladesh is now the world’s third-largest rice producer, with output rising from 10.9 million metric tons in 1971 to 42.0 million metric tons in 2022. Despite the abundance of the staple crop, ...

Gulf countries have borne much of Tehran's response after the United States and Israel launched a massive air campaign against Iran on 28 February.

US President Donald Trump had previously dismissed the younger Khamenei as a "lightweight" and insisted again on Sunday that he should have a say in appointing a new leader.

The agriculture sector recorded six consecutive months of expansion, manufacturing 18 and the services sector 17.

Analysts predict the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia will have to also cut output ​soon as they run out of oil storage.

Bangladesh's import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from long-term contracts has become highly uncertain after all three suppliers invoked force majeure, a legal tool that allows them to suspend or ...

The clerical body named the 56-year-old mid-ranking cleric, who has survived the US-Israeli air war on Iran, as successor more than a week after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in an air strike ...

Under Iran's complex, theocratic system, the supreme ​leader is the ultimate authority, including over foreign policy and Iran’s nuclear programme, as well as guiding the elected president and ...

Mojtaba, a cleric with influence inside Iran's security forces and vast business networks under his father, had been viewed as a frontrunner in the lead-up to Sunday's vote by the Assembly of Experts, ...