Dhaka – Roger Federer pulled out of the French Open on Thursday, ending his record streak of appearing in 65 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments – every one since the start of 2000.The 17-time major champion, who had a knee operation…
Day: May 20, 2016
Egypt army says plane wreckage found near Alexandria
Egyptian air and naval forces have found some of the passengers’ “personal belongings” and debris of EgyptAir flight 804, which crashed while carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo, the army said Friday. The debris was found around…
Kaka again tops MLS salary list, followed by Giovinco
Dhaka – Kaka remains Major League Soccer’s highest-paid player at just over $7 million, and American goalkeeper Tim Howard will earn slightly more than $2.5 million in his return to the league.Kaka, the former AC Milan and Real Madrid star,…
Qatar World Cup head: Blatter US support should be looked at
Dhaka- Sepp Blatter’s support for the American World Cup bid should face more scrutiny, the head of Qatar’s 2022 organizing committee said on Thursday in his latest expression of frustration at the focus on the probity of their winning campaign.Qatar’s…
Mustafiz now in Indian commercial!
Dhaka – ‘Cutter Master’ and the pride of Satkhira, Mustafizur Rahman is on a roll.Apart from his on-pitch successes, he is now featured in television commercials, as part of the Sunrisers Hyderabad entourage, he was shown in an online delivery…
Injustice to Khaleda won’t be tolerated: BNP
BNP leader ASM Hannan Shah on Friday warned that their party followers will not sit idle if the government does any injustice to their chairperson Khaleda Zia using the ‘false’ cases filed against her. “You’re harassing our leader by filing…
Abahani maintain winning spree in Premier Div Hockey
Dhaka – Abahani maintained winning spree in the 12-team Dhaka Premier Division Hockey League beating Bangladesh SC by 3-1 goals in their 3rd encounter at Maulana Bhasani National Hockey Stadium on Friday. Rajib Das fired the net first by a…
Nat’l Judo: BGB clinch 4 gold on opening day
Dhaka – Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) secured four gold medals on the opening day of the 33rd National Judo Competition at Shaheed Suhrawardi Indoor Stadium, Mirpur on Friday. Hasanur Rahman (100kg plus), Abul Kalam (100kg), Jahangir Alam (90kg) and Milton…
38 ‘drug peddlers’ held in city
Dhaka – Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 38 alleged drug peddlers special anti-narcotics drives in the capital in 24 hours till 6:00 am on Friday.Local police stations and the Detective Branch (DB) of DMP conducted separate drives from 6:00 am…
Jessore road crash leaves 1 dead, 4 injured
Jessore – A man was killed and four people, including a cameraperson of Bangladesh Television, were injured in a collision between a bus and a private car on Jessore-Magura highway in Kismat Nowapara area of district town on Friday morning.
Schoolboy killed in Kushtia bomb blast
Kushita -A schoolboy was killed and another injured in a bomb explosion at Kaburhat in Sadar upazila on Friday morning.
Man electrocuted in Jessore
Benapole -A man died and his wife was injured from electrocution at Barandi Mollapara in Jessore district town on Thursday night.Mizanur Rahman, uncle of the victim, said Ashraful Islam,33, received shock while picking clothes from a GI string that got…
MP’s son held with pistol, bullets in Satkhira
Satkhira – Police arrested a son of local MP Begum Rifat Amin along with a pistol and 43 rounds of bullets from a resort in the Sundarbans in Shyamnagar upazila on Thursday night.
DMP bans carriage, use of firecrackers, explosives from Sunday
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Friday imposed restriction on carrying of all types of explosives, crackers as well as explosion of firecrackers in the city ahead of Shab-e-Barat to be observed on Sunday next. Dhaka, UNB News Agency Reported.
2 housewives found dead in Chandpur, Shariatpur
Dhaka -Two housewives were found dead in separate incidents in Chandpur and Shariatpur on Thursday.In Chandpur, police recovered the body of Mobashera Begum, 50, wife of a homeopathic physician, Abul Kashem, from a water-body near her house on Chandpur-Comilla road…
1 killed in post-UP poll violence in B’baria
Brahmanbaria – A man was killed and at least 20 others injured in a post-union parishad polls clash between the followers of elected and defeated candidates in Telikandi village of Pakshimul union in Sarail upozila on Thursday night.
Buddha Purnima Saturday
Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, will be observed across the country on Saturday. Buddha Purnima marks Gautam Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death. It falls on the day of the full moon in May. Dhaka, UNB…
One killed in elephant attack in Rangamati
Rangamati – A man was killed in an elephant attack in Rajnagar area of Longdur upozila on Thursday night.The deceased was identified as Abdus Salam, 45, a resident of Marishay in Baghaichori upazila.
‘Mossad plot’ a cooked up story: BNP
BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Friday alleged that the government has invented a ‘Mossad plot’ to divert people’s attention to a different direction from its misdeeds and corruption. “As people are protesting the Bangladesh Bank reserve account heist…
Teletalk owes BTRC Tk 1,614.65 cr
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has failed to collect the outstanding payment of Tk 1,614.65 crore from state-run mobile operator Teletalk Bangladesh Limited despite issuing several notices. Sources at the BTRC said the regulator has recently sent a letter to…
Mustafiz now in Indian commercial!
‘Cutter Master’ and the pride of Satkhira, Mustafizur Rahman is on a roll. Apart from his on-pitch successes, he is now featured in television commercials, as part of the Sunrisers Hyderabad entourage, he was shown in an online delivery brand’s…
Arabs demand that UN remove a panel from Israeli exhibition
Arab and Islamic nations are demanding that the United Nations remove a panel from an Israeli exhibition that calls Jerusalem “the spiritual and physical capital of the Jewish people.” A letter from the Palestinian U.N. mission to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon…
New Taiwan president omits one-China policy in first speech
Taiwan’s new independence-leaning President Tsai Ing-wen tread carefully around the thorny issue of relations with China in her inaugural address Friday, emphasizing the importance of two decades of growing exchanges without mentioning the one-China policy fundamental to Beijing. Tsai said…
Cyclone Roanu moves slightly north-northeastward
The cyclonic storm ‘Roanu’ over West-central Bay and adjoining area moved slightly north-northeastward further over the same area (near lat 16.40 n & long 82.60e). It was centred at 06:00am about 1205 kms Southwest of Chittagong port, 1180 kms Southwest…
PM to visit Saudi Arabia in early June
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit Saudi Arabia from June 4-6, the second bilateral visit since 2009, through which Bangladesh expects to take the relations between the two countries to a new height. The Saudi government has already finalised the…
Terrorism likely cause of EgyptAir crash
Cairo — An EgyptAir jetliner en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard veered wildly in flight and crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday, authorities said. Egyptian and Russian officials said it may have been brought down…
US Export-Import Bank chairman sees business prospects in BD
Mohammad Zainal Abedin New York – Mr. Fred P. Hochberg, the Chairman And President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States of America hails Bangladesh for its consecutive growth rate. Hochberg while briefing the journalists at roundtable on ‘U.…
Sagor-Runi murder case probe report submission deferred
A Dhaka court on Thursday, once again, re-fixed the date for submission of probe report in the Sagor-Runi murder case, as the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) failed to submit the report on May 19 also.
Bangladesh-Russia negotiation on Rooppur NPP in Moscow
Dhaka – Deputy CEO for International Relations of Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation Nikolay Spasskiy yesterday led the Russian part during negotiation with the visiting Bangladesh Delegation headed by the Minister for Science and Technology Yeafesh Osman. A high power…
Insulted headmaster reinstated, school body dissolved
Dhaka–In the face of huge outrage over the suspension of Narayanganj’s high school headmaster Shyamal Kanti Bhakta, who was humiliated in public on allegation of hurting religious sentiments, the government on Thursday dissolved the school’s managing committee leading to his…