Chittagong – Bangladesh Railway earned a seven-wicket victory over Sitakunda Upazila KS in the CJKS-Confidence Cement First Division Cricket League at Women’s Complex ground here on Wednesday.Winning the toss, Sitakunda batted first and were all out for 166 runs in…
Dhaka – Mohammedan Sporting Club will face Abahani Ltd in the opening super league match of the four-team Dhaka Premier Division Women’s Cricket at Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishthan (BKSP) ground-4 on Thursday.Mohammedan reached the super league as table topper securing…
Dhaka – India got off to a flying start in the four-team Treat FIBA Asia U-18 Basketball Qualifiers for boys beating hosts Bangladesh by 90-31 points in the opening match at Shaheed Suhrawardy National Indoor Stadium in Mirpur on Wednesday.The…
Dhaka – The head of the Argentine Football Association said Tuesday that the national team will play at the Copa America in the United States as planned, dismissing reports that it might withdraw.AFA President Luis Segura was responding to Argentine…
Dhaka – Ireland lost its final warm-up game before traveling to the European Championship, beaten 2-1 Tuesday by a Belarus side which hasn’t qualified for the tournament in France.Martin O’Neill made 11 changes to the side which drew Friday with…
Bagerhat -Three people, including a woman, were killed as a pick-up overturned on Bagerhat-Khulna highway after hitting a tree in Mohadever Dokan area in Sadar uapzila on Wednesday.The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately,UNB News Agency Reported.
Benapole – A young man died from electrocution at Panjia Bazar in Keshabpur upazila of Jessore on Wednesday morning.The deceased was identified as Mamun Hossain,20, son of Abdul Kader,a resident of Madardanga village of the upazila,UNB News Agency Reported.
Barisal, June 1 (UNB) – An alleged robber was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Patar Char village in Muladi upazila early Wednesday.The deceased was identified as Salim Hawlader,40, a resident of the village.Officer-in-charge (Investigation) of Muladi Police…
Khagrachhari – The bus strike on the Chittagong-Khagrachhari road was withdrawn on Tuesday evening after three days of its enforcement following to a clash involving members of three transport workers’ association.SM Shafi, secretary of Khagrachhari Bus-Minibus Owners’ Association,said the bus…
Gazipur – A fire broke out in a readymade garment (RMG) factory at Chandana Chowrasta in Gazipur on Tuesday night.Habibur Rahman, an officer of Joydebpur Fire Service and Civil Defense, said the fire originated from an unknown source at the…
Gaibandha Correspondent Speakers at a training programme urged the journalists to come forward with the mentality to acquire knowledge on outsourcing to earn remittance through performing contractual jobs to change their lots economically. Speakers said online outsourcing has become a…
A baby suffering from a birth defect caused by the Zika virus was born on Tuesday in New Jersey to a woman visiting from Honduras who is infected with virus after she was bitten by a mosquito early on in…
Torrential downpours have lashed parts of northern Europe in recent days, leaving four dead in Germany, breaching the banks of the Seine in Paris and flooding rural roads and villages. In Paris, the French Open tennis tournament was hit for…
Lifestyle Desk Even if you take great care of your skin, you may still be plagued by huge pores. The prom queen peau of one Miss Regina George from Mean Girls couldn’t even escape them. We do know that exfoliating…
Entertainment Desk If she were still alive, Marilyn Monroe would have turned 90 years old on June 1. The screen siren died of a drug overdose at age 36 in 1962, just two years out from taking home a Golden…
State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak today said the Kaliakoir Hi-Tech Park has been renamed after Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as a mark of respect to him. “With the approval from the Father of…
The APW’s Big Cats Conservation Initiative in the northern Masai Steppe of Tanzania works to save the country’s most threatened lion population as well as important populations of cheetahs and leopards. Notable and unique features of APW’s program include the…
Entertainment Desk Bangladeshi filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki has been named as part of one of the juries at London’s East End Film Festival to be held from June 23 to July 3, 2016. Farooki will join film writer and producer…
Culture Desk The night of May 29 2016 came as a treat to Dhakaites as they enjoyed a night of Bollywood musical numbers with the arrival of seasoned Bollywood singer Atif Aslam in the city. The Pakistani born songbird who…
Dhaka – The High Court on Wednesday declared two sections of the Governing Body and Managing Committee Regulations, 2009 as illegal as those allow MPs to lead the managing committees or governing bodies of private schools and colleges. As per…
Dhaka – The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Wednesday handed down death sentence to Muhibor Rahman Boro Mia of Baniachang upazila of Habiganj district for crimes against humanity he had committed during the Liberation War in 1971. The tribunal also…
Dhaka – Syed Fahim Munaim, chief executive officer and chief editor of Maasranga Television, died of cardiac arrest on Wednesday morning. He was 62. Fahim Munaim, also ex-managing editor of UNB, breathed his last at his Gulshan residence around 6:15am,…
Developing countries spent more on renewable power than rich ones for the first time last year, driving the fastest increase in sources of green energy on record, a study said Wednesday. Global investment in renewable power was more than double the…
Dhaka-A meeting of the Shari`ah Supervisory Committee of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited was held on Tuesday at Islami Bank Tower.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday criticized the government for its failure to control price hikes of essential commodities before the month of Ramzan.
Dhaka-The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Tuesday placed BNP Joint Secretary General Aslam Chowdhury on a seven-day remand afresh under Section 54 of the Criminal Procedure Code in a case filed over his alleged anti-government activities.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith is likely to place annual budget proposal around Tk 340,006 crore for FY 2016-17.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday filed two separate leave-to-appeal petitions with the Supreme Court against a High Court order that rejected her two revision petitions seeking cancellation of the lower court order rejecting her two petitions in the Zia…
Robi customers under Dhonnobad programme can now avail themselves of special discounts while enjoying Indian delicacies at Sigree. In this connection, Robi’s General Manager (Loyalty & Win-back) Tawfique Imam and Sigree’s Deputy General Manager Md Emdadul Hoque have recently signed…
Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque on Tuesday urged the public to contribute alongside police towards ensuring maximum security of the people. Mentioning that police have been ‘performing their duties risking their lives’ for security of the people,…