Adelaide (AP/UNB) — A seven-digit send-off has Australia batsman Steve Smith motivated for an improved performance against Pakistan in the second cricket Test. Smith was looking to extend his strong form that netted him 774 runs in seven innings when…
Dhaka – Bangladesh will start the 13th South Asian (SA) Games campaign with men’s and women’s volleyball competitions on Wednesday at NSC Tripureshwor Covered Hall in Kathmandu, four days before the official opening of the seven-nation biggest regional meet. Seven…
Dhaka – Bangladesh ODI captain and brand ambassador of Walton Group Mashrafe Bin Mortaza visited the Walton Factory at Chandra in Gazipur on Monday. Mashrafe, a parliament member from Narail-2 constituency, played cricket with factory officials and workers of the…
Dhaka – A four-member delegates of the English Premier League giants Manchester United Football Club (MUFC) inspected Bangabandhu National Stadium on Tuesday to play a friendly match here in July 2020 marking the birth centenary of Father of the Nation…
England players will rally around an “emotional” Jofra Archer after the paceman was racially abused by a spectator in New Zealand, director of cricket Ashley Giles said Tuesday, as local officials scoured CCTV footage to identify the culprit.
Culture Desk Bangladeshi artist Firoz Mahmud has been nominated for COAL prize from the Coalition for Art and Sustainable Development (COAL) organisation who work in the fields of contemporary art, sustainable development and research in order to promote the emergence…
Rarely has a Tinder date ended so poorly than the one shown in “Queen & Slim.” Even more rarely has a bad Tinder date produced such a great film.
Three people were killed and 22 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and truck in Purbosorodi area of Bhanga upazila in the district on Tuesday morning.
The High Court here on Tuesday imposed a restriction on extracting underground water in four villages in Patiya upazila of Chattogram and directed the authorities concerned to take steps to ensure uninterrupted supply of drinking water to the villages.
The 17th span of the much-hyped Padma Bridge was installed on Tuesday afternoon, making 2.55 km of the bridge out of 6.15-km visible.
By Farhana Haque Rahman Farhana Haque Rahman is Senior Vice President of IPS Inter Press Service; a journalist and communications expert, she is a former senior official of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Fund for…
PARIS, NOVEMBER 26, 2019 – French luxury group LVMH has agreed to buy New York jeweler Tiffany & Co. for $16.2 billion, adding a famed star to its portfolio that already boasts Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and Bulgari.
Dhaka, Nov 26 – A woman was injured in a blast in the middle of the 60-feet road in North Pirerbagh near Medi Home Hospital on Sunday night.
BERLIN, NOVEMBER 26, 2019 – Thieves broke into Dresden’s Green Vault, one of the world’s oldest museums, early Monday morning, making off with three “priceless” sets of 18th century jewelry that German officials said would be impossible to sell on…
Dhaka, Nov 26 – After Sumi Akhter, another Bangladeshi female worker, Hosna Akhter, has been rescued in Saudi Arabia after a video sent to her husband describing physical and mental torture inflicted on her by her employer has gone viral.
Dhaka, Nov 26 – As the dry season sets in, the pollution level in the capital reached its extreme level due to uncontrolled discharge of dust from construction works and road digging, posing serious health risks to the city dwellers,…
by Karin Pettersson on 25th November 2019 @AB_Karin For Karin Pettersson, journalism has never been more challenging—and never more important. The news-media industry has long lamented about how the digital revolution has broken its business models. Today, a majority of…
25 November 2019 – Levels of the three main heat-trapping gases emitted into the atmosphere – carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, and nitrous oxide – have reached yet another high, the UN meteorological agency, WMO, said on Monday.
Dhaka, Nov 25 – A court here on Monday sentenced three members of banned militant outfit Jama’atulMujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to death and four others to life term imprisonment for killing a man in 2012. The condemned convicts are—Sanwar Hossain, Jahangir…
Dhaka, Nov 25 – Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday said the Road Transport Act will be enforced keeping it at a tolerable level.
Chattogram Challengers will take on Sylhet Thunder in the opening match of the seven–team new-look Bangabandhu Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) on December 11 at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium (SBNCS) in Mirpur. The match will kick off at 12:30pm at…
Dhaka – Chattogram Challengers will take on Sylhet Thunder in the opening match of the seven–team new-look Bangabandhu Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) on December 11 at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium (SBNCS) in Mirpur. The match will kick off at…
Dhaka – Grand Master (GM) Enamul Hossain Razib and Woman International Master (WIM) Rani Hamid won their matches on the first round of the 1st SAARC Chess Championships (Open & Women’s), at New Sindhurful Hall of FARS Hotel & Resorts…
Dhaka – The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) has decided to refund the money potential spectators paid for the 4th and 5th days of the Kolkata Test that came to an immature end during the first session of the 3rd…
Culture Desk Over the last couple of years, popular variety show ‘Ityadi’ has been under the camera at different historic places.
Culture Desk Editing of the second film ‘Gondi’ by Fakhrul Arefin Khan, the maker of ‘Bhuban Majhii’, is underway.
More than 60 doctors have written to British authorities asserting that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange urgently needs medical treatment at a university hospital.
New Zealand had closed to within two wickets of victory over England by tea on Monday on the final day of the first cricket test.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday filed a case against four doctors and three businessmen over the embezzlement of Tk 9.15 crore from Chittagong 250-Bed General Hospital.
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee released an ambitious rule book for online governance — a bill of rights and obligations for the internet — designed to counteract the growing prevalence of such anti-democratic poisons as misinformation, mass surveillance and…