WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (AFP): NASA on Monday announced it had used a state-of-the-art laser communication system on a spaceship 19 million miles (31 million kilometers) away from Earth-to send a high-definition cat video.The 15-second meow-vie featuring an orange tabby named...
DUBAI, Dec 19 (AFP): Australian fast bowlers Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins became the most expensive players in Indian Premier League history Tuesday, with franchises dishing out millions of dollars for their services at the glitzy Twenty20 tournament.Starc, who last...
MIAMI, Dec 19 (AFP): Lionel Messi is expected to line-up against his boyhood club Newell's Old Boys after the Argentine team agreed to a pre-season friendly game at Inter Miami in February.The Major League Soccer club announced on Monday that...
Fide Master (FM) Manon Reja Neer of Bangladesh shared the second slot in the boys U-18 group of the 25th Asian Youth Chess Championships, with two other players securing 4.5 points after the sixth round matches held in Al Ain,...
LAHORE, Pakistan, Dec 19 (AFP): Spinning all-rounder Shadab Khan was left out of a 17-man squad announced Tuesday for the Twenty20 internationals in New Zealand as Pakistan look to build back ahead of the World Cup.Shadab disappointed with just two...
After the series opener lost against the hosts, Bangladesh are eyeing a comeback in the second match of the three-match ODI series at Saxton Oval in Nelson today (Wednesday), report agencies.Ahead of the crucial clash, Bangladesh head coach Chandika Hathurusingha...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Dec 19 (BSS): A housewife was killed allegedly by her husband at their rented house at Pathanpara Waltonmore in Chapainawabganj town on Tuesday noon. The deceased was identified as Sampa Khatun, 25, wife of Abdullah Al Mamun of Ujanpara...
NARSINGDI, Dec 19 (BSS): A battery-run auto rickshaw driver was killed and three others were injured in a road accident on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Mahmudabad area under Raipura upazila of the district on Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Sabuj...
RAJSHAHI, Dec 19 (BSS): The Rubber dam in the Baranai River has become a boon for farmers as they are being benefited enormously by availing irrigation water from the embankment in the region for the last couple of years.The dam...
GAIBANDHA, Dec 19 (BSS): Speakers at a function here underscored the need for boosting healthcare services to the pregnant women to reduce child and maternal mortality rate during the period of disaster caused by climate change."Due to geographical location, four...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Wednesday), according to the Met Office. Night and day temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country.The highest temperature...
The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) organised a roundtable discussion on the "Impact of Climate Change on Women and Girls" in the city on Tuesday,...
Universal Medical College Hospital Chairman Preeti Chakraborty, CIP, presiding over annual conference of the hospital at Mahakhali in the city on Tuesday
Bangladesh Ordnance Factories Commandant Major General Md Maksudul Haque poses with the commandants and other officials at the 9th Colonel Commandant Induction Ceremony of Army Ordnance Corps at Ordnance Centre and School Parade Ground in Rajendrapur Cantonment, Gazipur on Wednesday...
CHATTOGRAM, Dec 19 (UNB): A 6-year-old girl who suffered burn injuries in a fire incident in Chattogram's Boalkhali upazila died at Sheikh Hasina Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute in Dhaka on Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Aritri Chakrabarty, daughter of...
The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Day-2023 will be celebrated across the country today (Wednesday) through various programmes, reports BSS.On the occasion, President Mohammed Shahabuddin and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued separate messages greeting the BGB members.The President, in his message,...
Foreign Minister (FM) AK Abdul Momen, on behalf of Bangladesh, attended the condolence event on the demise of the Amir of the State of Kuwait, Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, on Monday evening in the Gulf country, reports UNB.The foreign...
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Almost a century-old rail bridge at Kalurghat near Chattogram city is unlikely to be replaced with a new one before 2030 as the project's financier postponed the contract-signing time.This deferment in signing the Tk 140-billion project contract means a delay...
Thousands of people holding banners join a Victory Day procession organised by Bangladesh Awami League that paraded the main thoroughfares of the city on Tuesday — Focus Bangla
Ganatantra Mancha, a platform of some political parties, has claimed that a train was torched in the capital as part of a government plot to crack down on the ongoing one-point movement, reports UNB.Zonayed Saki, a top leader of the...
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The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) has stayed for eight weeks a High Court order that overturned the Election Commission's decision to cancel the nomination of independent candidate Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah for contesting the national election from Barishal-5....
BNP acting Chairman Tarique Rahman will give an important announcement on the opposition's ongoing one-point movement today (Wednesday), said party Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.The BNP leader came up with the remarks while speaking at a virtual press...
Additional Secretary of Election Commission (EC) Secretariat Ashok Kumar Debnath has said the work of printing the ballot papers for the upcoming 12th parliamentary elections will be completed by December 31, reports BSS."The work of ballot paper printing is underway....
Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) condemned on Tuesday arson attacks on bus and trains as four passengers were killed as miscreants set three coaches of Mohanganj Express on fire near Tejgaon Railway Station area in the morning, reports BSS.In a...
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has denounced the use of arson by any political party as a means of advancing its political agendas or protests, reports UNB.The recent horrifying incident involving the deaths of four individuals, including a three-year-old child, in...
The number of dengue cases in Bangladesh this year has increased by 196 to 319,671 in the latest daily count, reports bdnews24.com. The death toll from the mosquito-borne disease also rose by two to 1,688 in the 24 hours to...
LHOKSEUMAWE, Dec 19 (AFP): On a remote island in northwestern Indonesia, just miles from the white sand beaches where more than a thousand Rohingya refugees have arrived since mid-November, throngs of residents marched outside a temporary shelter housing the newcomers."Shoo...
Russian Ambassador to Bangladesh Alexander Mantytskiy Tuesday said that they are proud of their country's contribution during the early years of Bangladesh's development, which over the decades has become a role model for the whole world, reports UNB."Today, we remain...
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Marginalised people like those with disabilities, women and girls were grappling with climate-change challenges in Bangladesh, experts told a roundtable on Tuesday.Citing recent data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), they said women and girls were affected disproportionately,...
A daylong hartal called by BNP and other opposition parties was observed across the country on Tuesday in protest against the Election Commission's announcement of the 12th parliamentary election schedule under the Awami League-led government, reports UNB.Since October 29, it...
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