The Election Commission (EC) will itself allocate a symbol to the National Citizen Party (NCP) if the party fails to select one from the EC's list, EC Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed said, reports UNB."I have no information regarding any alternative...
BNP senior leader Salahuddin Ahmed has said his party is considering forming a broader political alliance ahead of the next national election, in line with the spirit of national unity, report agencies."We are looking to form a wider alliance with...
SYDNEY, Oct 27 (AFP): Injured Australia captain Pat Cummins has been ruled out of the first Ashes Test against England in Perth next month, head coach Andrew McDonald said on Monday.McDonald said Cummins had "run out of time" as he...
MADRID, Oct 26 (Reuters): Goals from Kylian Mbappe and Jude Bellingham earned Real Madrid a 2-1 victory over Barcelona in a spiky El Clasico on Sunday that snapped a four-match losing streak against their rivals and extended their lead atop...
During a cricket match in Khulna, Barishal cricket team's physio Hasan Ahmed died of a cardiac arrest on Monday. He was 47, reports UNB.The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has expressed deep sorrow at his death.According to the BCB, Hasan collapsed...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct 27 (AP): FIFA President Gianni Infantino unveiled a new soccer tournament for Southeast Asian nations on Sunday at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Malaysia.Southeast Asia already stages the ASEAN Championship, a biennial regional...
Bangladesh's Taskin Ahmed celebrates with teammates after taking the wicket of West Indies' Sherfane Rutherford during the first T20 international match at a stadium in Chattogram on Monday- AFP
BENAPOLE, Oct 27 (UNB): Police recovered the body of a young man from a pond at Ghiba village in Benapole on Monday morning, two days after he went missing.The deceased was identified as Abdul Alim, 32, son of Shahadat Ali...
NOAKHALI, Oct 27 (UNB): A ten-year-old madrasah student was hacked to death allegedly by his roommate at Makhfunul Ulum Madrasah in Sonaimuri upazila of Noakhali district early Monday.The deceased was identified as Nazim Uddin, son of Obayed Ullah of Jahanabad...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-10-28 00:00:00
GAIBANDHA, Oct 27: Farmers of the Abdullah village in Gaibandha's Saghata Upazila demanded a solution as an irrigation pump designated for at least a hundred bighas of land have been remaining out of order for about two years.Growers say that...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-10-28 00:00:00
PABNA, Oct 24: Where earlier there used to be a hustle and bustle of cutting mulberry leaves, rearing silkworms, making cocoons and making silk thread from them throughout the year. However, the evolution of time has created a spooky atmosphere...
LONDON/BENGALURU, Oct 27 (Reuters): Analysts have hiked their price forecasts for copper next year after a series of mine disruptions fuelled worries about shortages and market deficits, a Reuters poll shows. .Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange hit its...
Analysts have sharply raised their price forecasts for platinum and palladium in 2026, citing tight mine supply, tariff uncertainty and rotation from investment demand for gold, as platinum nears its best yearly performance and palladium marks its best year since...
Gold prices fell 2 per cent on Monday, as hopes of easing US-China trade tensions lifted risk appetite for equities, while investors awaited major central bank meetings this week for rate cut cues, reports Reuters.Spot gold was down 2 per...
Under the project titled 'Workover of seven wells in Titas, Habiganj, Bakhrabad and Meghna Fields' of Bangladesh Gas Fields Company Limited (BGFCL), SM Mahbub Alam, Director (Administration) of Petrobangla, inaugurated the workover operation of the Habiganj No. 5 well recently....
LONDON, Oct 27 (Reuters): Oil prices edged lower on Monday, falling over 1 per cent earlier in the session as they were pressured by scepticism that a US and Chinese trade deal framework would immediately boost oil demand and after...
The Digital Security Act (DSA) was enacted not to protect Bangladeshis from cybercrime, but to suppress free speech and dissent. Vague terms like spirit of liberation war and ambiguous phrases such as offensive or annoying speech rendered satire and constructive...
Once, young people dreamt of becoming doctors, engineers or artists. Today, many dream of becoming millionaires overnight. The boy who once tutored or worked a small job to stand on his own feet is now lost in the illusions of...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2025-10-28 00:00:00
Has the Myanmar Army now been gaining the upper hand over the rebels and regaining territory lost to the rebel forces so far? A BBC report says that with the support of China, the Myanmar army has intensified air strikes...
Mir Mostafizur Rahaman | 2025-10-28 00:00:00
The border between Pakistan and Afghanistan has always been more than a line on a map. It is a frontier where geopolitics, history, and mistrust converge - often violently. Today, as tensions flare once again along the Durand Line, the...
Dhaka District's preeminence on account of the capital city it hosts is quite logical. But such a primacy is not axiomatic. In many countries commercial capitals outstrip their administrative capitals particularly on the strength of economic muscle. Even in Bangladesh,...
DOUALA, Oct 27 (AFP): Four people were killed in clashes between security forces and supporters of a Cameroon opposition leader who claims to have won recent presidential elections, authorities said ahead of the announcement of official results Monday.Issa Tchiroma, who...
PARIS, Oct 27 (AFP): Some 28 so-called carbon bomb fossil fuel extraction projects have begun operating since 2021 despite their catastrophic climate impact, a group of NGOs warned Monday.Carbon bombs were defined in a 2022 research article as oil, gas...
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 27 (AP): Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Monday called on Asia-Pacific leaders to prioritize dialogue over coercion and cooperation over confrontation as he opened the East Asia Summit amid rising U.S.-China rivalry.The summit brings together ASEAN...
WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (AP): A fighter jet and a helicopter based off the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz both crashed into the South China Sea within 30 minutes of each other, the Navy's Pacific Fleet said. The three crew members of...
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 27 (BBC): Argentina's president Javier Milei has led his party to a landslide victory in Sunday's midterm elections, after defining the first two years of his presidency with radical spending cuts and free-market reforms.His party, La Libertad...
Syed Abul Basher | 2025-10-28 00:00:00
Whenever we go grocery shopping, prices, particularly food prices feel much more than the single-digit inflation figure suggests. Economic statistics can often obscure lived experience, and our daily reality often tells a different story, the one of steadily eroding purchasing...
BNP senior leader Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury on Sunday called upon all political parties to work together to restore a democratic order in the country through the upcoming national election rather than resorting to street violence or confrontational politics, reports...
KISHOREGANJ, Oct 26 (UNB): Sarjis Alam, Chief Organiser (North) of the National Citizen Party (NCP), has alleged that parts of the administration are showing political bias, favouring different parties including the BNP, Jamaat, and Awami League."Some in the administration are...
FE REPORT | 2025-10-27 00:00:00
The High Court on Sunday issued a rule asking the respondents to explain in two weeks as to why former Chief Justice Khairul Haque should not be granted bail in five cases filed against him. The High Court bench of...
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