LONDON, Aug 18 (AFP): Chelsea have signed Romeo Lavia on a seven-year contract from Southampton it was announced Friday in the latest addition to their squad after the teenage midfielder rejected a move to Premier League rivals Liverpool.No fee has...
MADRID, Aug 18 (AFP): Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper Sergio Rico will be discharged from hospital on Friday, almost three months after an equine accident put him in a coma with a traumatic brain injury.Rico has been authorised to leave Seville's Virgen...
CINCINNATI, Aug 18 (AFP): Novak Djokovic extended his career-long domination of Gael Monfils with a 6-3, 6-2 victory on Thursday to reach the quarter-finals of the ATP/WTA Cincinnati Open.The Serb second seed, a two-time winner in Cincinnati, won his 19th...
Lionel Messi has won just about everything there is to win in football but said on Thursday that bringing Inter Miami their first ever trophy would be "incredible" and "a beautiful thing".Languishing at the bottom of Major League Soccer's Eastern...
SYDNEY, Aug 18 (AFP): FIFA president Gianni Infantino on Friday hit back at critics of the decision to expand the Women's World Cup to 32 teams, saying, "I'm sorry, but FIFA was right."England and Spain will play the final on...
SYDNEY, Aug 18 (AFP): A Women's World Cup that has broken records on and off the pitch will reach a suitable climax on Sunday when England or Spain are crowned champions for the first time.About 75,000 fans will pack Stadium...
The Bangladesh U-15 and U-17 junior badminton teams got off to a winning start in the Badminton Asian South Asia (U-17 and U-15) Regional Junior Championship that began on Friday in Kathmandu, Nepal, reports BSS.The U-15 junior team beat Bhutan...
Gold gained on Friday as the dollar and bond yields eased but remained on course for a third straight weekly dip as strong US economic data reinforced bets that the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates elevated reports Reuters.Spot gold...
WASHINGTON, Aug 18 (Reuters): The US Commerce Department on Thursday said it will impose preliminary anti-dumping duties on tin-plated steel imports from Canada, Germany and China, sparing five other countries in a decision that drew some relief from food can...
Air cargo enjoyed record demand when COVID-19 closed borders and snarled supply chains. Now, it is reeling from overcapacity and tumbling freight rates as the freight boom makes a hard landing, reports Reuters.Consumers who had the means to spend the...
Saudi Arabia's crude oil exports fell for a third straight month in June to their lowest since September 2021, data from the Joint Organizations Data Initiative (JODI) showed on Wednesday, with big Asian buyers favouring cheaper Russian oil, reports Reuters.The...
I G Chowdhury | 2023-08-19 00:00:00
It was a casual meeting at the office of Head of Department of English. I was a fresh student at the university, in another department. I was there with my uncle, who was a faculty, on way to the Registrar's...
Nilratan Halder | 2023-08-19 00:00:00
Cheating in public examinations was so rampant once that any hope of salvaging the situation looked bleak. Mercifully, the ill practice has more or less been rooted out from the two most important public examinations at the secondary and higher...
Russia charges jailed US citizen with espionageMOSCOW, Aug 18: Russia has charged a jailed US citizen with espionage, state news agencies reported, upping the pressure on the US President Joe Biden's administration which has been trying to find a way...
NEW DELHI, Aug 18 ( Reuters): India's space agency on Friday released images of the moon taken from its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft as it approaches the lunar south pole, a previously unexplored region thought to contain water ice where Russia is...
WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (Reuters): The United States has approved sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine from Denmark and the Netherlands to defend against Russian invaders as soon as pilot training is completed, a U.S. official said on Thursday.Ukraine has actively...
HAGERSTOWN, Maryland, Aug 18 (Reuters): At a Camp David summit on Friday, the United States, South Korea and Japan were likely to pledge to consult each other in moments of crisis, officials said, a commitment designed to deepen three-way military...
KABUL (Afghanistan), Aug 18, (AP): Women lose value if men can see their uncovered faces in public, a spokesman for a key ministry of Afghanistan's Taliban government said Thursday, adding that religious scholars in the country agree that a woman...
RIYADH, Aug 18 (Xinhua): Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said here on Thursday the relations between his country and Saudi Arabia are moving in the right direction and both sides will advance cooperation in various fields. Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks...
WASHINGTON, Aug 18 (Reuters) : US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday that it was tracking a new, highly mutated lineage of the virus that causes COVID-19.The lineage is named BA.2.86, and has been detected in the...
OTTAWA, Aug 18, 2023 (Reuters): Canadian firefighters are racing against advancing flames on Friday to evacuate all residents from the remote northern city of Yellowknife, with unfavourable winds threatening to complicate one of the biggest rescue efforts of the fire...
Riad Shams | 2023-08-19 00:00:00
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has eight member countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri-Lanka). These eight countries have a number of large and small nationalities (such as Bengalis, Punjabis, Tamil), who have been...
Many public university students in Bangladesh are from poor to middle-income families. They support their expenses by tutoring or part-time jobs. High inflation, followed by a price hike of daily essentials, has raised food prices in residential halls at various...
A survey report published recently by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) says that women's domestic labour, which is eight times more than men's, goes unrecognised. Domestic and care work is said to take up 1.6 hours per day for...
Tanim Asjad | 2023-08-19 00:00:00
The month of Shrabon, the second and last month of the rainy season on the Bangla calendar, ended on Tuesday last. Rains are, however, still there and they will continue for another one to two months at regular intervals. Thus...
Syed Mansur Hashim | 2023-08-19 00:00:00
By all indications, the country is heading for the point of no return as the energy mix becomes squarely focused on the import of expensive, imported liquefied natural gas (LNG). A report published in this newspaper points, quoting sources in...
Devastating fires from illegally stored flammable chemicals in crowded residential areas, especially in Old Dhaka, have been claiming scores of lives in regular intervals. Another deadly fire claiming the lives of, according to the latest report, all six members of...
Imtiaz A Hussain | 2023-08-19 00:00:00
Meeting in an atomic bombed city, the G7 Summit ominously warned Russia not to resort to nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Ironically, before that bomb was dropped on September 6, 1945, a retreating Japan even discussed peace with the Soviet Union...
Bangladesh's uncapped opener Tanzid Hasan Tamim is used to the lofty comparisons with the side's leading batter Tamim Iqbal. The comparison is not just down to their similar names, but also their approach to batting, reports Cricbuzz. Tanzid's playing style...
Abdul Awal Primary School at Ashtagram Upazila in Kishoreganj arranged a Dua Mahfil in observance of the National Mourning Day on August 15. Upazila Chairman Shahidul Islam, Upazila Nirbahi Officer Harun-Or-Rashid, Upazila Primary Education Officer Ashraful Alam, OC of Ashtagram...
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