RAJSHAHI, May 31 (BSS): Speakers at a discussion here observed on Tuesday that ensuring safe drinking water, sanitation, health, housing and education to the slum dwellers can be the best ways of improving their living and livelihood conditions.Disadvantaged and underprivileged...
A woman drowned while a child went missing in the Dhanu river of the district's Itna upazila on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the body of a child was recovered from the Daudkhali river in Rampal upazila of Bagerhat on Monday, reports UNB.In...
PANCHAGARH, May 31 (BSS): Litchi, the delicious fruit, has arrived in the local markets here and the farmers are very happy as this year's output has reached beyond their expectation.Officials of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) said the commercial...
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COX'S BAZAR, May 31: The beaches of Cox's Bazar used to be a comfortable home of thousands of red ghost crabs. The number of red crabs is, however, disappearing from the beaches of Cox's Bazar due to use of illegal...
Bangladesh National Football team will take on higher-ranked hosts Indonesia after 14 years in a FIFA Tier-1 International Friendly match today (Wednesday), reports UNB.The match will kick off at 7:30 pm Bangladesh time at the Si Jalak Harupat Stadium in...
ISLAMABAD, May 31 (AP): The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has shifted next month's ODI series against the West Indies from Rawalpindi to Multan in view of expected protest rallies by opposition politicians.Former Prime Minister Imran Khan is planning protest rallies...
Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema has been named the 2021/22 UEFA Champions League player of the season, report agencies.The award from UEFA's technical observer panel recognised the Frenchman's crucial role in securing Real Madrid their 14th European title at the...
NEW DELHI, May 31 (ANI): Sri Lanka is keen to host the upcoming Asia Cup which will start from August 27 this year onwards and is making arrangements for it, said an Asian Cricket Council (ACC) source. The tournament is...
Chelsea's £4.25 billion sale to a consortium led by American investor Todd Boehly and private equity firm Clearlake Capital has been completed on Monday, reports BBC Sport.The club was put up for sale in March before previous owner Roman Abramovich...
PARIS, May 31 (AFP): Italy's Martina Trevisan reached her first Grand Slam semi-final on Tuesday with victory over Canada's Leylah Fernandez at the French OpenWorld number 59 Trevisan downed the 17th seeded Canadian, a fellow left-hander, 6-2, 6-7 (3/7), 6-3.The...
Bangladesh will play former World Cup, Olympics and Asia Cup champions Pakistan in the 5th place deciding classification match of the Asia Cup Hockey-2022 today (Wednesday), reports UNB.The match will kick off at 12:30 pm Bangladesh time at the GBK...
The FIFA World Cup 2022, being played from November 21 to December 18, 2022, is going to be the most expensive FIFA World Cup in history, according to American commercial broadcast television and radio network National Broadcasting Company (NBC).The first-ever...
Test captain Mominul Haque has said he is reluctant to continue in the role, report agencies. He made the revelation after attending a meeting with the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hasan on Tuesday evening, in remarks to the...
Lebanon's new parliament elects longtime speakerBEIRUT, May 31: Lebanon's longtime parliament speaker who has held the post for 30 years, was reelected Tuesday for a seventh four-year term with the minimum number of votes required and despite multiple crises plaguing...
AMRITSAR, May 31 (AFP): Thousands of mourners gathered Tuesday for the cremation of Indian hip hop star Sidhu Moose Wala, whose murder at the weekend shocked fans at home and in Punjabi communities from Canada to Britain.Moose Wala -- whose...
TEHRAN, May 31 (AFP): The death toll from last week's collapse of a tower block in southwestern Iran has risen to 34, state media reported Tuesday, as emergency crews continue to comb the rubble.A large section of the 10-storey Metropol...
YANGON, May 31 (AFP): A powerful Myanmar ethnic rebel group with close ties to China called on Tuesday for the junta to engage in dialogue with anti-coup fighters to end 15 months of bloodshed.With a standing force of around 25,000,...
OTTAWA, May 31 (Reuters): Canada's government introduced legislation Monday to implement a "national freeze" on the sale and purchase of handguns as part of a gun control package that would also limit magazine capacities and ban some toys that look...
ISLAMABAD, May 31 (PTI): Amid reports that Punjab Assembly Speaker Pervaiz Elahi has asked the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to reconsider its decision of resigning en masse from the National Assembly, PTI chairman and former premier Imran Khan ruled out the...
Taiwan says it deployed fighter jets to warn off 30 warplanes sent by China into its air defence zone, reports BBC.The incident on Monday marked the biggest incursion since January.It came days after US President Joe Biden warned China against...
WASHINGTON, May 31 (AFP): US President Joe Biden said Monday he would not send rocket systems to Ukraine that could hit targets well inside Russian territory, despite urgent requests from Kyiv for long-range weapons."We are not going to send to...
KYIV, May 31 (Arab News/Al Jazeera): Russian forces have taken partial control of a key industrial city in eastern Ukraine, a regional governor said Tuesday, hours after European Union leaders struck a deal to ban more than two-thirds of Moscow's...
Abdur Rahman Chowdhury from Falls Church, Virginia, USA | 2022-06-01 00:00:00
Tofazzul Hossain popularly known as Manik Mia, in his youth, came in contact with Hossain Shaheed Suhrawardy, a charismatic politician of united Bengal. They developed close relationship. Suhrawardy became the mentor of Manik Mia and in him, Suhrawardy found a...
Across Dhaka city, traffic conditions are worsening with daily traffic congestions that last for hours. To avoid the peak hour rush, people are compelled to leave their homes early to reach their destinations on time. However, the roads are packed...
Population science or demography is a special branch of social science. Its main goal is to scientifically coordinate population of a country. It has some special fields of research such as population programme, sample survey, population problem analysis, socio economic...
A norwester during this time of the year is a common affair in Bangladesh. The alarming rise in the number and intensity of this tropical storm is becoming a dominant natural phenomenon here. Sometimes the storm, locally known as Kalbaishakhi,...
Khawaza Main Uddin | 2022-06-01 00:00:00
The whole discourse on embezzlement of public money and its siphoning off thereafter has been confined to only one person named PK Halder. Anyone has finally got someone to blame. This culture of making merely one scapegoat has given all...
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in its nationwide drive against privately operating hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres is learnt to have meanwhile shut down more than 1,100 such health facilities and penalised 450 others on charge of various...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2022-06-01 00:00:00
The question conveyed by the heading should appear as superfluous because, unarguably, all the economies in the world have been facing crises in the wake of the two-year long Covid-19 pandemic, now made worse by the on-going war in Ukraine....
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