MONTERREY, Mexico, July 19 (AFP): The United States qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics on Monday by defeating Tokyo Olympic champions Canada 1-0 in the CONCACAF W Championship final.Alex Morgan scored from the penalty spot in the 78th minute to...
KUWAIT CITY, July 19 (AFP): China will host the 2022 Asian Games in 2023, organisers said on Tuesday, after postponing the event in Hangzhou because of Covid.The Games will now be held in Hangzhou from September 23 to October 8,...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is all set to introduce regional cricket bodies, BCB president Nazmul Hasan said after the annual general meeting of the board on Tuesday in the city, reports UNB. The BCB was trying for a long time...
MAGURA, Jul 19 (UNB): A court in Magura has ordered a PBI probe into the death of a transport worker in alleged police torture as well as the registration of an FIR against five cops.Senior Judicial Magistrate (II) Sabyasachi Roy...
HABIGANJ, July 19 (UNB): A man and his five-year-old son were killed when a pick-up van knocked them down on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Kandigaon in Nabiganj upazila of Habiganj district on Tuesday, said police.The dead is Yusuf Ali (55), an...
Raju Ahmed Shipon, a truck driver responsible for the deaths of three family members in Mymensingh's Trishal Upazila, had no licence to drive a heavy vehicle. He lost his driving licence for a medium-sized vehicle six years ago, reports bdnews24.com.The...
DINAJPUR, July 19 (UNB): After the triplets in two districts, now triplets born in Dinajpur have been named after the much-awaited Padma Bridge.A housewife named Sadina Begum (32) gave birth to triplets through normal delivery at a community hospital in...
OUR CORRESPONDENTNETRAKONA, July 19: Netrakona district town has yet to get a road network perfectly all right even though 138 years have already gone by since it came into existence. The road from Satpai level crossing to Chankhar More in...
KURIGRAM, July 19 (UNB): Crops on around 8,027 hectares of land have been damaged due to the recent floods in Kurigram district. Crops worth Tk 1.27 billion have been damaged, according to the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE). According to...
ISTANBUL, July 19 (AFP): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday renewed his threat to "freeze" the NATO membership bids of both Sweden and Finland unless the military alliance complies with Ankara's conditions.At a NATO summit in Madrid at the...
SADIQABAD, July 19 (AFP): At least 18 women drowned and dozens more people are missing after an overcrowded boat carrying a Pakistan wedding party capsized on Monday, officials said.The boat was ferrying about 100 members of one family across the...
KYIV, July 19 (Reuters): Russian forces kept up their bombardment of cities across Ukraine, with intense shelling of Sumy in the north, cluster bombs targeting Mykolaiv and a missile strike in Odesa in the south, authorities said on Tuesday.After failing...
LONDON, July 19 (AP): The World Health Organization said Tuesday that coronavirus cases have tripled across Europe in the past six weeks, accounting for nearly half of all infections globally. Hospitalisations rates have also doubled, although intensive care admissions have...
BETHLEHEM, July 19 (AFP): After hearing Joe Biden identify Jerusalem as Israel's capital and concede a two-state solution seemed "far away", one Palestinian official gave a blunt assessment of the US president's visit to the region."It's like the Trump years...
The letters published on Page-5 in the Financial Express on July 19 were inadvertently reprinted. The oversight is regretted.
In Bangladesh, there are numerous patients who need timely blood transfusion. However, many are devoid of this life-saving intervention as they live in rural areas, where there are no blood banks. Blood bank is available only in big cities like...
Mobile phones are considered the easiest mode of communication. However, excess of everything has an adverse reaction. Nowadays, smartphone is a technological device that has become an inevitable part of our life. Even schools and other educational institutions are not...
According to the Transplant of Human Organ Act (amendment) 2018, a patient can obtain a kidney either from a 'near relative' or from a brain-dead patient, whose kin would agree to this. Around 5,000 kidney transplants are reportedly needed in...
Khawaza Main Uddin | 2022-07-20 00:00:00
Reports of price spiralling of essentials are common but road crashes, violence against vulnerable people, anomalies in education and healthcare sectors, and corruptions of different forms and proportions sometimes dominate the media coverage.However, the historic publicity campaign on the occasion...
Wasi Ahmed | 2022-07-20 00:00:00
No wonder that observance of the World Youth Skills Day is more of a formality here as elsewhere. The day passed this week with little or no fanfare. In fact, there is no need for ceremonial campaign to bring home...
To help the UN's effort to bring foodgrains of Ukrainian and Russian origin to the world market, the US government has reportedly exempted the production, manufacture or sale of agricultural commodities including fertilisers, agricultural equipment or medicine (of Russian origin)...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2022-07-20 00:00:00
Globalisation, in its bare bones form of movement of goods and people across geographical areas, is as old as civilisation. Borders between countries where they could be identified were porous and did not pose much of a barrier to such...
COLOMBO, July 18 (Reuters): Sri Lanka's acting President Ranil Wickreme-singhe said on Monday that the country had almost concluded negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a day after he declared a state of emergency in the island nation."The acting...
The mild heatwave which is sweeping Rajshahi, Rangpur and Nilphamari districts may abate following showers in parts of country in the next 24 hours, Met office said Monday morning, reports UNB."Light to moderate rain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary...
A worker carries rawhide of cattle sacrificed during the Eid-ul-Adha, one of the biggest religious festivals of the Muslims, at a tannery in Savar, on the outskirts of capital Dhaka, on Monday — AFP
SLAMABAD, July 18 (BBC): Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has renewed his call for early elections after a stunning by-election upset saw his party take control of a crucial provincial assembly.His PTI party won 15 of 20 seats up...
LONDON, July 18 (Agencies): Britain and France went on heatwave alert on Monday facing record temperatures as southwest Europe wilted under a scorching sun and ferocious wildfires devoured more forests.Britain was on course for its hottest day on record on...
FE Report | 2022-07-19 00:00:00
India proposed to start a new cross-border train service between Dhaka and Kolkata through Darshana, while Bangladesh focused on improving train service on Chilahati-Holdibari route to strengthen connectivity with Nepal and Bhutan. The proposals came during a meeting between Railways...
An hour-long power load-shedding is set to begin today. A city resident is seen taking home a new IPS as a backup support during the planned power outage. The photo was taken in Arambagh area of Dhaka on Monday —...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2022-07-19 00:00:00
The government is set to revise the MRT-6 project for the second time, with an additional allocation of Tk 5.76 billion for consultancy services, officials said on Monday, despite a substantial amount of money already spent on the same component...
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