Dhaka – Hosts Bangladesh Under-19 Cricket team are leading by 137 runs with 2 wickets remaining against Sri Lanka Under-19 team on the 2ndday of the 2nd four-day Youth Test at Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium in Khulna on Sunday. Bangladesh…
Day: November 3, 2019
Bangladesh U-19 team to fly for Bahrain Monday
Dhaka – A 30-member Bangladesh Under-19 Men’s Football team will leave Dhaka for Bahrain on Monday (Nov 4) morning at 9:50 am to play in the qualification round of the AFC U-19 Championship’2020 beginning on Wednesday (November 6) . Bangladesh,…
Jahir Rayhan clinches gold in 400-metre run
Dhaka, Nov 3 (UNB)- Md Jahir Rayhan of Bangladesh Navy clinched gold for Bangladesh in the boys’ 400-metre run with a timing of 47.34 seconds in the ongoing 35th Indian National Junior (U-20) Athletics Championships’2019 at Acharya Nagarjuna University in…
Bangladesh bowl first against India in T20 series opener
Dhaka, Nov 3 (UNB) — Bangladesh won the toss and opted to bowl first in the first match of three-match T20 series against India on Sunday at Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi with Mohammad Naim making his T20I debut.…
Mehedi guides Khulna to take lead against Rangpur Div
Dhaka — Mehedi Hasan guided Khulna Division to take a nine–run lead against Rangpur Division scoring a tremendous century in the National Cricket League (NCL) on Sunday.
Aug 15, Nov 3 killing Masterminds to be unveiled one day: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday hoped that someone in the future will surely find out the real conspirators behind the killings of August 15 and November 3 in 1975.
Walker the hero as City comes back to beat Southampton
Kyle Walker scored one goal and set up another as he engineered a comeback 2-1 win for Manchester City against Southampton in the English Premier League on Saturday.
2019 Aga Khan Architecture Award winner honoured in city
The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), Aga Khan National Council, and Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) in collaboration with the Institute of Architects Bangladesh have honoured architect Saif Ul Haque – one of the winners of the 2019 Aga…
Prof Akhtaruzzaman appointed DU VC for 4 yrs afresh
Acting Vice Chancellor of Dhaka University (DU) Prof Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman has been appointed Vice Chancellor of the university for the next four years on Sunday.
Schoolboy killed, 7 injured in Narayanganj building collapse
Narayanganj, Nov 3 – The body of a schoolboy was retrieved while seven others were injured after a four-storey building collapsed in Babubail area of the city on Sunday afternoon.
Khoka’s family can avail of travel permit: Shahriar
The government has said its Mission in New York is ready to issue ‘travel permit’ if the family of former mayor of Dhaka City Corporation Sadeque Hossain Khoka applies for that.
Cricketer Shakib Al-Hasan meets ACC chief
Bangladesh’s iconic cricket all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan, also a goodwill ambassador of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), visited the ACC headquarters in the city on Sunday.
Chinese news agency slams ‘barbaric’ Hong Kong office attack
China’s state-owned Xinhua News Agency denounced the attack on its office in Hong Kong by pro-democracy protesters as “barbaric” during a melee that marked nearly five months of unrest in the Chinese territory.
Lutheran sisters recall nursing those wounded at Berlin Wall
Sister Brigitte Queisser walks slowly along the decaying remains of the Berlin Wall, its rusty rebar reinforcement exposed where the concrete has crumbled away.
Take immediate steps to control onion price: Rights body
Claiming that the hike in the onion price is a planned one by a syndicate, a consumer rights body on Sunday urged the government to take immediate steps to arrest the skyrocketing price of the cooking ingredient.
Facilitate Khoka’s return: BNP to govt
BNP on Sunday urged the government to take necessary steps so that ailing former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation and freedom fighter Sadeque Hossain Khoka can return home from the USA.
Trump absent, ASEAN charts path for trade bloc led by China
Leaders from fast-growing Southeast Asian economies, China, Japan and other regional powers are aiming for a breakthrough on a free trade deal and an outline for handling territorial tensions at an annual summit that opened near Bangkok on Sunday.
Dr Yunus gets bail upon surrender
A labour court here on Sunday granted bail to Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus in three cases filed over sacking three employees of Grameen Communications.
Corbyn on Trump: It’s not his job who’s elected next UK PM
Jeremy Corbyn has hit back at Donald Trump for branding him “so bad” for the UK, saying the comment was “extraordinary” and it is “not his business who is elected to be prime minister in this country”.
Case over throwing Polytechnic principal into Rajshahi pond
A case has been filed against 50 people over throwing the principal of Rajshahi Polytechnic Institute into a pond on the campus by a group of ‘Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists’.
Ex Dhaka Mayor Khoka’s condition deteriorates further
Dhaka, Nov 2 (UNB) – The health condition of former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation and BNP vice-chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka worsened further as doctors stopped providing cancer treatment to him.
Skulls, masks and dancers as Mexico fetes Day of the Dead
Dancers in indigenous costumes pranced down a broad avenue followed by a float bearing the 20-foot-tall likeness of the goddess Mictecacihuatl, announced as “the queen of the underworld and the guardian of our bones,” crowned by a red feather headdress…
BNP to seek from PM details on documents signed with India
Dhaka, Nov 2 (UNB) – BNP will send a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina seeking detailed information about the bilateral documents signed with India during her visit to the neighbouring country last month.
Woman dies of dengue in Khulna
A woman died of dengue at Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) here early Sunday.The deceased was identified as Sandhya Rani, 55, wife of Bimal Saha of Tala upazila in Satkhira district.
Book on National Professor Abdur Razzaq published
Dhaka, Nov 3 – Prof Abdur Razzaq was a visionary who had an impressive brain and mind ahead of his time but he used to live as a common man, speakers said at a book launching ceremony on Saturday.
AL leader shot dead in Sirajganj
A local Awami League leader was gunned down by miscreants at Duttabari in Sadar upazila on Saturday night.
Jail Killing Day Sunday: President PM pay tributes
Dhaka, Nov 3 – The Jail Killing Day is on Sunday. The day is being observed with due respects marking the brutal killing of four national leaders inside the jail.
‘BCL men’ dump Rajshahi Polytechnic principal into pond
Rajshahi, Nov 2 – A group of ‘Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists’ of Rajshahi Polytechnic Institute unit threw their principal into a pond on the campus on Saturday for his refusal to allow two students to fill up forms for…