MADRID – Top Barcelona officials will hold an emergency board meeting on Monday following the team’s humiliating 8-2 Champions League quarter-final defeat by Bayern Munich, a club source told AFP on Sunday. “The president (Josep Maria Bartomeu) has called an…
NEW DELHI – India skipper Virat Kohli told Mahendra Singh Dhoni “you will always be my captain” as he hailed the influence of the cricketing great, who has called time on his international career. Kohli, who made his India debut…
DHAKA—Bangladesh ODI skipper Tamim Iqbal felt his fitness and form is at good stead despite being confined to the room for almost five months due to the COVID-19, a deadly virus that left the world stranded. Tamim, who started his…
MADRID – Barcelona insisted they had not heard from Lionel Messi that he wants to leave the club, as an emergency board meeting was being held at Camp Nou on Monday. Barca officials, including under-fire president Josep Maria Bartomeu, were…
DHAKA -State Minister for Youth and Sports Mohammad Zahid Ahsan Russell MP expressed deep shock at the death of former national hockey star and Coach Ehtesham Sultan who breathed his last at a city hospital in Mirpur this morning at…
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced delaying New Zealand’s elections by four weeks due to the coronavirus outbreak in Auckland.
Revenue for state coffers through Nakugaon, in the northern bordering district of Sherpur, has been badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, with international trading activities at the land port still only a fraction of levels witnessed till late March.
RAJSHAHI, Aug 17, 2020 (BSS) – Water level in many of the major rivers in Ganges basin has started rising again today because of onrushing of floodwater from upstream hilly catchment areas caused by heavy downpour.
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) on Monday fined 70 establishments Tk 1.27 lakh after a drive found Aedes mosquito larvae at 70 houses and establishments on the seventh day of its combing operation to prevent dengue outbreak.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday upheld the High Court Division order that stayed trial proceedings in four sabotage cases against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.
Deaths from Covid-19 disease reached 3,694 in Bangladesh on Monday as health authorities reported 37 more deaths in the last 24 hours across the country.
National Intellectual Property Administration has granted the China’s first patent for a COVID-19 vaccine.
French President Emmanuel Macron urged fresh Middle East peace talks after Israel and the UAE agreed to normalise ties in a move praised by many Western governments, including Paris, but unanimously denounced by the Palestinians.
A team of Indian scientists claims to have found a sustainable process to make brick-like structures on the lunar surface which could be a significant step forward in space exploration.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has donated Tk 1 crore to the Buddhist community for celebrating their second largest festival- Probarona Purnima- in a befitting manner.
Police recovered the body of an unidentified man from the Buriganga River on Monday.
With detection of 70 new coronavirus patients, the number of confirmed cases rose to 9,369 in the Sylhet division on Monday.
A student of Dhaka University (DU) reportedly took his own life at his room in Barishal town on Monday.
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has registered two new dengue cases in the past 24 hours until Monday morning.
Australian actress Elizabeth Debicki will play Diana, Princess of Wales, in the final two seasons of the hit Netflix series The Crown, it has been announced.
Moscow, Xinhua/UNB, Aug 17 – Russia has begun production of the first batch of vaccines against COVID-19, its health ministry said in a statement released Saturday.
Chapainawabganj, Aug 17 – Members of Border Guard Bangladesh recovered the bullet-hit body of a young man along Shingnagar border in Shibganj upazila on Sunday night.
Dhaka, Aug 17 – On-demand ride-sharing platforms have seen a dramatic rise since 2016 as a means of living for many and a support for a faster commuting across the capital until Covid-19 pandemic hit the country hard in March.…