Dhaka- Bangladesh Women’s team will play their 2nd match of the five-a-side AFC Women’s Futsal Championship against stronger and four-time South East Asian Games runners-up Vietnam in Thai capital Bangkok on Friday.
Year: 2018
U18 Football: Arambagh rout Ctg Abahani 5-0
Dhaka – Arambagh Krira Sangha notched up a 5-0 victory against Chittagong Abahani in the 3rd Under-18 Football Tournament at Banglbandhu National Stadium on Thursday.
AI to help China to reach for the stars
Building a space station, probing Mars, setting up a lunar base and going deeper into the universe – artificial intelligence will be at the cutting edge of China’s space odyssey.
Safety clause for journos in Digital Security Bill
Speakers at a roundtable in the city on Thursday urged to introduce a safety clause for journalists in Digital Security Act to safeguard freedom of press in Bangladesh.
North India dust storm kills 97
At least 97 people were killed in strong dust storms that swept across northern India, officials said Thursday.
Some bloody immigrants think they should get all The Perks
According to the latest figures of Italy’s National Institute for Statistics (ISTAT), 184,638 non-EU citizens acquired Italian citizenship in 2016. Of these 5,799 were Brazilians, placing this nationality seventh in the ranking, behind Albanians (36,920), Moroccans (35,212), Indians (9,527), Bangladeshis…
Cop killed in Rajshahi road crash
Dhaka – A police constable was killed and another injured when a truck hit them at Sishutala in Charghat upazila in Rajshahi early Thursday.
Schoolgirl found dead in Ctg
Dhaka – Police recovered the body of a schoolgirl from the bank of Karnaphuli River near Patenga sea beach in Chattogram on Wednesday.
UP chairman shot dead in Narsingdi
Dhaka – A union parishad chairman was gunned down by miscreants at Arkanda village in Raipura upazila in Narsingdi on Thursday afternoon.
Justin Langer confirmed as new Australia head cricket coach
Sydney(AP/UNB) – Looking to move on from one of the darkest periods in its 140-year history, Cricket Australia has chosen Justin Langer as its new head coach, hoping the 105-test veteran will lead the national team out of the fallout…
Liverpool goes from qualifier to Champions League finalist
Rome,(AP/UNB) – Way back in August when Liverpool was sweating its way through the playoffs just to qualify for the Champions League group phase, going all the way to the final wasn’t even on the Reds radar.
Pant, Boult lift Delhi to 4-run win over Rajashtan in IPL
NEW DELHI – Rishabh Pant hit a rapid half century and Trent Boult held his nerve in the last over as Delhi Daredevils edged out Rajashtan Royals by four runs on the D/L Method in a rain-affected Indian Premier League…
Tigresses to start 5-match ODI series against South Africa Friday
Dhaka – Bangladesh Women’s Cricket team, now touring South Africa, will return to international cricket after around 14 months taking on South Africa women’s team in the first match of the five-match ODI series on Friday at the Senwes Park…
Press freedom does not come from lip service
In talks and discussion on the World Press Freedom Day on Thursday some intellectuals have blamed the absence of press freedom in the country on the lack of courage and self-censorship on the part of the journalists. But do their…
Asian equities track Wall St loss, China-US trade talks in view
Most Asian markets dipped Thursday following a sell-off in New York as investors keep an eye on top-level talks between China and the United States on trade, while the dollar’s latest rally lost a little steam.
Bollywood greats Bachchan, Kapoor reunite after 27 years
Two of Bollywood’s greatest stars, Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor, will share a screen together for the first time in almost three decades when comedy “102 Not Out” is released Friday. The movie, directed by Umesh Shukla, sees Bachchan play…
Nine out of 10 people breathing polluted air: WHO
More than 90 percent of the global population is breathing in high levels of pollutants, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, blaming poor air quality for some seven million deaths annually. Fresh data from the UN health body showed that…
Alamgir honored with ‘Nayakkaz Razzak Award’ in Kolkata
Entertainment Desk Actor Alamgir Hossain from Bangladesh was honored with the ‘Nayakkaz Razzak Award’ in Kolkata.The Bengal Film and Television Chamber of Commerce (BFTCC) introduced the award in memory of the legendary film star Razzak.
Babu is hopeful for Indubala 3
Entertainment Desk After the success of ‘Indubala’ and ‘Indubala 2’, popular actor-singer Fazlur Rahman Babu is going to release his third album ‘Indubala 3’ for his fans and audience soon.
Loyal dog charms Chinese social media
China’s online community has fallen hard for a loyal elderly dog, who waits patiently outside a station every day for his owner to come home from work. The popular Pear Video website shared a video of Xiongxiong – Little Bear…
Dutch scientists build ‘synthetic embryos’
Dutch scientists have built “synthetic” embryos in their laboratory using mouse cells other than sperm and eggs. The stem cell breakthrough, described in Nature journal, is not for cloning people or animals, but about understanding why many pregnancies fail at…
UN urges Trump not to walk away from Iran nuclear deal
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has urged Donald Trump not to walk away from an international deal designed to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. Speaking to the BBC, Mr Guterres said there was a real risk of war if the…
Trump repaid lawyer $130,000 used to buy Daniels’ silence
President Donald Trump personally repaid his lawyer the $130,000 that was used to buy an adult film actor’s silence about an alleged affair, his legal aide Rudy Giuliani has said. It appears to contradict Mr Trump, who said he did…
Solo Art show of Kutal Barat at AFD begins Friday
Dhaka, 02 May – The inaugural ceremony of the solo art exhibition by Kutal Barat titled ‘Displaced in Dhaka. will be held on Friday, 4 May 2018 at 5.30pm at AFD.
Strange bedfellows undermining liberalism: Trump & academia
by Bo Rothstein For people like myself, working as a social science researcher, these are very strange times. Almost any colleague, in whatever discipline you talk with, will quickly turn the conversation onto one and only one question – the…
Panmunjom declaration: A glimmer of hope
By Askiah Adam Taken pleasantly by surprise, not least because of the speed at which the joint Panmunjom Declaration has materialised, the world cannot but rejoice. In the few months from the recent Winter Olympics in South Korea when the…
Women farmers bring healthy meals to local schools
Chulucanas, Peru, 26 (IPS/ Mariela Jara) — Getting children and adolescents to replace junk food with nutritious local organic foods is the aim of a group of women farmers in a rural area of Piura, on Peru’s north coast, as…
Keeping power in check: Media, justice and the rule of law
The theme of the 2018 celebration highlights the importance of an enabling legal environment for press freedom, and gives special attention to the role of an independent judiciary in ensuring legal guarantees for press freedom and the prosecution of crimes…
Four killed in Jhenidah road crash
Jhenidah , May 2 – Four people were killed and four others injured on Wednesday when a goods-laden truck hit a battery-run auto-rickshaw at Laudia on Dhaka-Khulna highway in the district.
Bangladeshi among 10 ‘Emerging Young Leaders Award’
Dhaka, May 2 – The US Department of State will honour outstanding young leaders from around the world, including Tanzil Ferdous from Bangladesh, on Wednesday (today).