The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Saturday announced two BCB XI teams to play two two-day practice matches against touring England at the MA Aziz Stadium in the port city of Chittagong The first two-day practice match will be held…
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Wheat,rice harvests headed for record high: FAO
The world’s wheat and rice producers are headed for a record harvest this year, drastically reducing the global food bill as prices fall, the FAO said on Thursday.Overall cereal production is projected to rise by 1.5 percent this year from…
2016 campaign can’t shake Bill Clinton’s scandals
Monica Lewinsky tends to avoid politics these days, after becoming instantly famous nearly 20 years ago as the White House intern who had an affair with President Bill Clinton.Unfortunately for Lewinsky, the 2016 presidential race keeps getting stuck in the…
US, EU demand South Sudan adhere to cease-fire
South Sudan’s government and rebel forces should immediately adhere to a permanent cease-fire, the United States, European Union, Britain and regional states said Thursday, calling continued conflict in the troubled nation “senseless.”The statement issued by the State Department is the…
Market showing gain
Trading on the country’s two bourses is underway showing positive trend in share price indices on Thursday, the last trading day of the week.DSEX, the key index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, gained 0.60 points to stand at 4714.65 during the…
No evidence of Tahmid’s link to café attack found: DMP
Police found no specific evidence of Tahmid Hasib Khan’s involvement in Gulshan’s Holey Artisan Bakery attack, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Md Asaduzzaman Mia on Wednesday.The DMP chief came up with the information while talking to reporters after inspecting…
ECNEC approves 8 projects worth Tk 3,488.20 crore
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Tuesday approved the ‘Procurement of 200 MG passenger coaches for Bangladesh Railway’ project involving Tk 927.52 crore, aiming to provide modern, safe and improved services to commuters.The approval came from…
UK’s Thouless, Haldane and Kosterlitz win 2016 Nobel physics prize
British-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for their studies of unusual states of matter, which may open up new applications in electronics.Their discoveries, using advanced mathematics, had boosted…
Bangladesh’s extreme poverty rate drops to 12.9 percent: WB
Bangladesh’s extreme poverty rate has dropped to 12.9 percent of the total population in 2015-16, the World Bank says.In its ‘Bangladesh Development Update’, released on Monday, the multi lateral lending agency said it has come down from 13.8 percent in…
Japan’s Ohsumi wins Nobel for studies of cell ‘self-eating’
Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries related to the degrading and recycling of cellular components.The Karolinska Institute honored Ohsumi for “brilliant experiments” in the 1990s on autophagy, the “self-eating” process…
Gulshan attack suspect Tahmid secures bail
A court here on Sunday granted bail to Toronto University student Tahmid Hasib Khan, who was arrested under Section 54 of the CrPC in connection with the Gulshan terror attack.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Laskar Sohel Rana passed the order following a…
Russia warns against US attack on Syrian forces
Russia warned the United States Saturday against carrying out any attacks on Syrian government forces, saying it would have repercussions across the Middle East as government forces captured a hill on the edge of the northern city of Aleppo under…
ICM demands cancellation of Rampal power plant
Ideal Citizen Movement (ICM), a newly floated social group, on Saturday demanded that the government immediately cancel the Rampal coal-fired power plant for the sake of the Sundarbans.The demand was made at a human chain formed in front of the…
Rare ‘black moon’ rises over Western Hemisphere Friday night
A rare “black moon” rises Friday night over the Western Hemisphere, but don’t expect to see it.NASA says a black moon is the second new moon in a calendar month.
Errors in DU ‘Ga’ unit entry test paper
The ‘Ga’ unit (Business Faculty) admission test of Dhaka University for 2016-17 academic session was held on Friday with a lot of errors in the question paper.’A’ set of question paper contained 99 questions instead of 100. Question commands were…
‘BCL men’, cops foil Rampal power plant protesters’ rally
Police and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student body of ruling Awami League, allegedly foiled a cycle rally of Rampal power plant protestors at the central Shaheed Minar here on Friday.Witnesses said a group of students and environmentalists under…
Work to enhance quality of education, President urges teachers
President Abdul Hamid on Thursday urged teachers of the haor areas to give special attention to enhancing the quality of education.”Many guardians come to me and request me to arrange job for their children who have passed BSc, B.com or…
ADB to provide 1.5bn to develop BD southwest railway
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide US$1.5 billion to Bangladesh to build a dual-gauge railway line that will bring key trade and tourism to the southernmost parts of Bangladesh.The new railway, part of the Trans-Asia Railway network, will also…
9 Kalyanpur militants buried as unclaimed bodies
The nine militants, killed during a police operation in the city’s Kalyanpur area on July 26, were buried at Jurain Graveyard in the city on Wednesday as no one claimed their bodies.Eight of the militants were identified as Abdullah, Abu…
Boycotting Islamabad Summit Dhaka’s own decision: Shahriar
Saarc’s effectiveness has apparently become questionable once again as its member states are waiting for a formal communication from the Saarc Secretariat to call its 19th Summit off as a number of countries opted out from it.However, there had been…
Aleppo’s two largest hospitals bombed by Syrian regime
The city’s dire humanitarian crisis has been compounded by government shelling in the rebel-held east. On top of the hospital attack, Human Rights Watch has accused President Assad of using banned chemical weapons.Government bombardment of the Syrian city of Aleppo…
After India, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh skip SAARC summit
After India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan, too, have pulled out of the SAARC Summit in Islamabad, saying the “environment” is not right for the successful holding of the meet scheduled to be held in the Pakistani capital in November.The decision…
Over 90pc of world breathing polluted air: WHO
Nine out of 10 people globally are breathing poor quality air, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, calling for dramatic action against pollution that is blamed for more than six million deaths a year.New data in a report from the…
1.1 millioin Bangladeshi overseas workers legalized: minister
Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam, BSc today said the governments of Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Iraq have legalized some 10,77,000 undocumented Bangladeshi overseas workers as a result of successful diplomatic efforts of the present government.“Bangladeshi undocumented workers…
Sheikh Hasina’s 70th birthday Wednesday
The 70th birthday of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is also the president of Bangladesh Awami League, will be celebrated on Wednesday.On September 28, 1947, Sheikh Hasina was born at Tungipara in Gopalganj district. She is the eldest of the…
Reaction around the world to first Trump-Clinton debate
Views from around the world on Monday’s first U.S. presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump: CHINA: WANG PEI, a graduate student in communications studies, was watching the debate from a cafe in Beijing and said he…
Afroza Abbas made Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal president
The new committee of Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal, BNP’s women wing, was announced on Tuesday with Afroza Abbas, wife BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas, its president and Sultana Ahmed general secretary.Nurjahan Yasmin has been made its senior vice president, while…
Mohiuddin, 5 other Hizb ut-Tahrir men indicted in terrorism case:
A court here on Tuesday framed charges against six members of banned Islamist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir, including its chief coordinator Mohiuddin Ahmed, in an anti-terrorism case.The court also fixed October 24 for next hearing in the case.Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge…
BD-origin German man held with 9 ‘look-alike’ pistols at airport
A Bangladesh-born German citizen was arrested along with nine pistol-like objects at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport here on Tuesday, customs officials said.Earlier at noon, Dhaka Customs House Assistant Commissioner HM Ahsanul Kabir, however, said Bangladesh-origin German citizen Monir Ben Ali…
Syed Shamsul Haq dies at 81
Versatile writer Syed Shamsul Haq passed away at a city hospital on Tuesday evening. He was 81.Haq, who had long been fighting with deadly lung cancer, breathed his last at United Hospital around 5:26, hospital sources said.He left behind his…