Monsoon rain continued for the second consecutive day on Saturday across the country, including capital Dhaka, leaving the normal life in disarray. Low-income people, especially the day labourers, suffered much in the city as rain disrupted their normal pace of…
Dhaka – Dr Wazed Miah KC will play Shantinagar Club in the final match of the Walton First Dhaka Mohanagari Football Tournament on Sunday (Aug 13) at the Kamalapur Stadium in the city.The final match of the first-ever tournament of…
Dhaka- The Sheikh Kamal Memorial School Chess Tournament begins at 10 am on Sunday at the hall room of Bangladesh Chess Federation in the capital.
Dhaka – Both the matches of the Marcel Bangladesh Championship League (BCL) football ended a goalless draw at the Kamalapur Stadium in the capital on Saturday.
The water level rise in different rivers of the country’s north and northeast region triggered by heavy downpour and onrush of water from upstream flooded vast areas, leaving thousands of people marooned.According to reports reaching the UNB desk, the water…
Dhaka – Fide Master Sheikh Nasir Ahmed of Bangladesh Navy finished 80th in the 43rd Obert International Ciutat De Badalona Chess securing four points from nine-round matches held in Barcelona, Spain on Thursday .
Dhaka – Last years runners-up Chittagong Abahani Ltd maintained all- win record to secure the top spot in the 10th Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) football beating Sheikh Russel Krira Chakra by 3-1 goals in the 4th match at the Bangabandhu…
A female student of Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia has been missing for four days.The victim was identified as Smrity Khatun, 25, a third year student of English Department and daughter of Anowar Hossain of Mokumpur village in Kushtia district.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday alleged that the country is now in the grip of injustice and unjust due to Awami League’s extreme close-minded politics.“Awami League is basically a very narrow-minded political party. They can’t think…
Konkona Sen Sharma, who won plaudits for her debut as a director for Death In The Gunj, recently told a news agency that the gender disparity in our industry is still very much rampant. She mentioned there are not enough…
Taking Vitamin B3 could prevent miscarriages and birth defects, a study on mice suggests. Researchers from the Victor Chang Institute in Sydney called it “a double breakthrough”, as they found both a cause and a preventative solution. With 7.9 million…
Brazil’s troubled oil giant Petrobas on Thursday reported a 93 percent drop in profits in the second quarter of 2017 from the previous three months. Petrobras reported 316 million reais profits ($100 million), down from 4.4 billion in the first…
Global warming is altering the timing of floods in Europe, making some rivers swell early and others later than usual, a phenomenon that impacts farming and daily life across the region, researchers said Thursday. The report in the US journal…
Facebook’s interest in China has led it to discretely create a photo-sharing application released there without the social network’s brand being attached. “We have long said that we are interested in China, and are spending time understanding and learning more…
Entertainment Desk A two-day film festival is going to be held in remembrance of legendary filmmaker Zahir Raihan on August 18 and 19. Titled as Zahir Raihan Festival, the two-day event with the slogan ‘Protirodhe Camera Prostut’ will be held…
Entertainment Desk Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s much-talked-about film ‘Doob’ (No Bed of Roses), an India-Bangladesh co-production, has received No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the Bangladesh Film Censor Board (BFCB). Iftekhar Uddin Nowshad, one of the members of the board, said, “Now…
The trailer of Sanjay Dutt’s comeback film Bhoomi was released yesterday and it has made a huge impact. Rajkumar Hirani, who has made the Munnabhai films with Dutt was vocal about the debt he owed to his star at the…
Rajshahi – For being awarded Bangabandhu National Agriculture Medal, Agronomist Dr Sharif Uddin has been congratulated through a warm reception in Rajshahi.
Dhaka- The Members of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) recovered the body of a youth from a paddy field of Shibpur village in Badarganj upazila in Rangpur on Friday morning. who went missing four and half months ago.The victim was…
Dhaka – Detectives arrested three suspected drug peddlers, including a woman, from Uttara in the city along with 20,000 pieces of Yaba tablets on Thursday afternoon.
Dhaka- Police arrested two suspected drug traders, including a woman, along with 305 pieces of Yaba table from Bharthkhola in Dakhshin Surma upazila in Sylhet on Friday.
Dhaka – An eight-year-old girl died from snakebite at Shimulia village in Sadar upazila in Magura on Friday.
Dhaka – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested six alleged smugglers along with 2.25kilogram cocaine from different areas of in Khulna on Friday night.
London,(AP/UNB)- Arsene Wenger is relieved Olivier Giroud didn’t take him up on the offer to leave Arsenal.Ever since France striker Alexandre Lacazette joined in July for a club-record 60 million euros ($68 million), the future of compatriot Giroud has been…
Montreal,(AP/UNB)- Roger Federer advanced to the semifinals of the Rogers Cup and was joined later Friday by Canadian teenager Denis Shapovalov, who followed his upset of Rafael Nadal with another three-set victory.The 18-year-old left-hander from Richmond Hill, Ontario beat France’s…
London, (AP/UNB)- The Premier League made a thrilling return, and Arsenal finally had something to celebrate on the opening weekend.It took the arrival of Aaron Ramsey and Olivier Giroud from the bench in the second half to turn it around…
San Francisco,(AP/UNB)- Basketball star Kevin Durant has issued an apology for calling India “20 years behind” and several other comments about the Asian country.The Golden State Warriors forward tweeted on Friday that he’s “sorry that my comments about India were…
Alexandria, Aug 12 (AP/UNB)- Two passenger trains collided on Friday just outside Egypt’s Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, killing 43 people, according to authorities, the country’s deadliest rail accident in more than a decade. Magdy Hegazy, a top health official…
Dhaka, Aug 12 – Two people were killed and about a hundred others injured in a clash between two rival groups of villagers over the formation of a mosque committee at Mukkandi village in Bahubal Upazila of Habiganj in northeastern…
The sanctions are a rare diplomatic success for Trump. That doesn’t necessarily mean they will work. By Adam Taylor – The Washington Post When it comes to dealing with North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, many people hope sanctions are a…