North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guides a target-striking contest of the special operation forces of the Korean People's Army (KPA) to occupy islands in this undated picture provided by KCNA in Pyongyang on Aug 25, 2017. KCNA via Reuters
North Korea fired several short-range missiles into the sea off its east coast early on Saturday, [...]

Rail communication of Khulna with the rest of the country was restored on Saturday after an eleven-hour disruption caused by a derailment.
Rail officials said that a compartment of Rajshahi-bound Sagordari Express, including engine, had derailed near to Poradah Rail Station at about 8:00 pm on Friday.
Poradah station master Shariful Islam said the rail communication was [...]

Authorities say the death toll in Friday's militant attacks has risen to 89 with many more bodies of Rohingya insurgents found in areas around the scene of fighting.
Many insurgents, injured during the attacks, were found dead in fields and roads around the zone of attack that encompassed three townships - Maung Taw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung. [...]

Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Texas coast on Friday as a Category 4 storm, bringing life-threatening winds and the likelihood of catastrophic flooding as the most powerful storm in over a decade hit the mainland United States.
The hurricane made landfall northeast of Corpus Christi around 10 pm CDT (0300 GMT) with maximum winds of 130 [...]

Violent protests erupted in Haryana on Friday, killing at least 29 people, after a court convicted self-styled “godman” Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh of raping two women, angering thousands of his supporters who said he was innocent, the state chief minister said.
Singh, the head of a social welfare and spiritual group, was found guilty of raping [...]

A bridge-construction project has seen eight project directors (PD) in seven years sans physical work, officials said.
With seven years having elapsed, the project's physical works are yet to be started on the Shitalakhya Bridge though its current deadline was over in June this year.
In the meantime, the government has extended the project-execution deadline thrice from [...]

A bridge-construction project has seen eight project directors (PD) in seven years sans physical work, officials said.
With seven years having elapsed, the project's physical works are yet to be started on the Shitalakhya Bridge though its current deadline was over in June this year.
In the meantime, the government has extended the project-execution deadline thrice from [...]

The government has initiated the process of instituting a separate 'Pension Accounting Office' to deal with the pension-related issues under a centralized management.
This new government body is likely to come under the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General who is already working to develop an organogram for the planned entity, officials told the FE.
Around [...]

Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BBA) will borrow US$ 516.34 million to make final payment against the delivery of four passenger aircraft as part of its move to rebuild its fleet, officials said.
The national flag carrier has already made pre-delivery payment (PDP) to the US-based Boeing for the procurement of last four Boeing aircraft as per agreements [...]

The main challenge currently facing the Padma bridge project is building the main bridge without adequate and proper studies, experts said.
In the absence of detailed geotechnical, hydraulic and other related studies, they said, the Padma Multipurpose Bridge project office has now got to take support of a foreign consulting firm for the confirmation of the [...]