Brazilian former football player Ronaldinho (C) celebrates team's first goal with teammates during the Joga Bonito Tour exhibition football match between Ronaldinho XI and Cahill XI in Sydney on Friday — AFP
Unless Bangladesh start to put together top-order partnerships, they will continue to suffer like they did in Chattogram against South Africa, according to captain Najmul Hossain Shanto, reports espncricinfo.com. The home side sunk to an innings-and-273-run defeat, bowled out twice...
MUMBAI, Nov 01 (AFP): India were in deep trouble at 86-4 in their reply after spinners Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar helped bowl out New Zealand for 235 on day one of the third Test on Friday.The hosts trailed New...
Schoolgirls, policeman among five killed in roadside blast in PakistanQUETTA, Nov 01: At least five people, including three schoolgirls and a policeman, were killed in a roadside blast in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province on Friday morning, police said, in the...
MILWAUKEE, Nov 01 (AFP): Donald Trump and Kamala Harris hold dueling campaign rallies Friday in Wisconsin's largest city Milwaukee, as both candidates make frantic last-ditch appeals to wavering voters with Election Day just around the corner.Republican Trump will return to...
MANILA, Nov 01 (BBC): Jennylyn M Barrios' job as a make-up artist takes her all over Manila - precious time away from Uno, her 10-month-old son.There simply isn't enough time in the day to make the homemade meals her growing...
SEOUL, Nov 01 (Reuters): North Korea flexed its military muscle with the test of a huge new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile dubbed Hwasong-19, state media said on Friday, amid international uproar over its troops deployed to aid Russia in Ukraine.The...
GAZA, Nov 01 (Reuters/AFP): Sixty Palestinians were killed and dozens injured, most of them children and women, in overnight Israeli bombardment of the the central Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Friday.The attacks occurred in the city...
MOSCOW, Nov 01 (AP): A court in Russia's far-eastern city of Vladivostok on Friday convicted a former US Consulate worker charged with cooperating with a foreign state and sentenced him to four years and 10 months in prison.Robert Shonov, a...
PARIS, Nov 01 (AFP): One year after world leaders issued the landmark call for a global move away from fossil fuels, nations are failing to turn that promise into action, say climate diplomats, campaigners and policy experts.Countries are being urged...
The rise of the gig economy has ignited discussions about worker rights, labour laws, and economic stability in today's rapidly evolving landscape. With more individuals turning to freelance work and short-term contracts, it's imperative to explore how we can harmonise...
The recent policy change regarding the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) exam is a masterstroke. Under intense pressure, policymakers have taken a commendable step to address key challenges facing job seekers. This new rule "kills two birds with one stone": it...
Tanim Asjad | 2024-11-02 00:00:00
One of the wrong policies of the ousted government was the promotion of motorbikes or motorcycles in the country. It overlooked the negative impact of motor cycle proliferation. On the one hand, the government created room for manufacturing, assembling and...
Syed Mansur Hashim | 2024-11-02 00:00:00
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has published a study titled 'Decent Work Status of the Care Workers: A Rapid Assessment' recently that looks at the global demand for care-giving services till 2035. Its findings are very interesting for Bangladesh. According...
The unceremonious and hurried manner in which the chairman of the anti-corruption commission (ACC) along with two other commissioners resigned their constitutional posts showing personal reasons and left office on Tuesday (October 29) has raised a few eyebrows. For as...
Serajul I. Bhuiyan | 2024-11-02 00:00:00
The US Presidential Election in 2024 is shaping up to be one of the most consequential in recent times, the result of which will depend on just a few important battleground states where polarised voter sentiment grows. This high-stakes race...
The Trustee meeting of CAPM BDBL Mutual Fund 01 was held on Wednesday, says a statement. The meeting approved the accounts and unaudited report of the mutual fund for the first quarter that ended on September 30, showing the total...
Nilratan Halder | 2024-11-01 12:00:00
This country is not particularly known for building a society free from violence and crimes including the bone-chilling types. A people that has emerged independent out of one of the fiercest liberation wars in world history is inured to blood-letting...
Dhaka's air quality was categorised as "unhealthy for sensitive groups" on Thursday morning, reports UNB.With an air quality index (AQI) score of 122 at 8:55 am, Dhaka ranked the 10th on the list of cities worldwide with the worst air...
Light rain is likely to occur at one or two places over Rangpur, Dhaka, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Friday), according to the Met Office. The highest temperature in the...
Seven more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours until Thursday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 297 this year, reports UNB.During the period, 1, 243 more patients were hospitalised with viral...
Labour experts on Thursday urged the government to reform certain sections of the Bangladesh Labour Act, 2006, to safeguard accommodation, gratuity, casual leave and other service rights and benefits of tea workers, reports UNB.They made the call during a stakeholders'...
Chief Justice (CJ) Syed Refaat Ahmed has convened a full court meeting of the judges of the Appellate Division and High Court Division of the Supreme Court on November 4, reports BSS.The meeting will be held at 03.30 pm in...
Ekushey Padak-winning veteran actor Masud Ali Khan passed away at his Kalabagan residence in the capital on Thursday. He was 95, reports UNB.Masud Ali, who had been suffering from several old-age complications, breathed his last at 4:20 pm, family sources...
FE REPORT | 2024-11-01 00:00:00
The HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine that is taken to prevent cervical cancer does not cause infertility or have religious obligations, authorities clarified on Wednesday as misinformation is spreading in this regard."HPV vaccination has nothing to do with infertility. Also, there...
FE REPORT | 2024-11-01 00:00:00
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will invest in research and development of the country's agriculture and food technology sectors, creation of skilled human resources, climate management, and smart agriculture.For this purpose, 'Strengthening Higher Education in Agriculture Project' has been taken...
Chief Adviser (CA) Professor Muhammad Yunus on Thursday urged the Australian government to regularise migrants and increase regular migration from Bangladesh, reports UNB.He came up with the call when Australia's Home Minister Tony Burke called on him (Chief Adviser) at...
FE REPORT | 2024-11-01 00:00:00
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) called on Thursday for the appointment of new, independent leadership at the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). It also said that the ACC must be free from political and bureaucratic influences. In a statement, the TIB emphasised the...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-11-01 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Oct 31: Police arrested a former leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Chittagong University (CU) unit from the campus on Wednesday night.Arrested Fahim Hossain was organising secretary of the BCL's CU unit. He was a cohort of former Chattogram...
A Dhaka court has imposed travel ban on former Dhaka-18 lawmaker Mohammad Habib Hasan, former Bogura-3 lawmaker Md Nurul Islam Talukder, Union Bank PLC managing director ABM Mokammel Haque Chowdhury and former taxes commissioner Ranjit Kumar Talukder over graft allegations,...
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