COLOMBO, May 20 (Reuters): Sri Lanka's central bank has secured foreign exchange to pay for fuel and cooking gas shipments that will ease crippling shortages, its governor said on Thursday, but police fired tear gas and water canon to push...
Reehana Rifat Raza, the Regional Director of the Asia and Pacific Division at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has said IFAD prioritises investment in Bangladesh, reports UNB.She mentioned areas of cooperation such as climate change, youth, gender, food...
LONDON, May 20 (Reuters): Chelsea defender Marco Alonso on Thursday scored a glorious equaliser to earn a 1-1 home draw with Leicester City, despite the hosts being wasteful on the night.The result meant that Chelsea effectively sealed third place in...
PARIS, May 20 (AFP): As the football world prepares to head to Qatar in six months' time, this World Cup is set to bookend the era in which Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have been the sport's two pre-eminent players.At...
Vice-president of Kurmitola Golf Club, GOC and Area Commander, Logistics Area Major General Md Zahirul Islam inaugurating 'Nagad Cup Golf Tournament 2022' at Kurmitola Golf Club in Dhaka Cantonment on Friday — ISPR
Spirited Bashundhara Kings take on local heavy weight ATK Mohun Bagan in their second group D match of the AFC Cup scheduled to be held today (Saturday) at Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata, reports BSS.The match kicks off at 5...
Royal Challengers Bangalore kept their playoffs hopes alive after a commanding win over Gujarat Titans that took them to 16 points, with Virat Kohli top-scoring in a clinical chase, according to Cricbuzz.Kohli took a couple of overs to get his...
PARIS, May 20 (AP): Female referees will make World Cup history this year by working games at a major men's tournament for the first time in Qatar.Three female referees and three female assistant referees were announced Thursday by FIFA among...
LONDON, May 20 (AFP): Three of New Zealand's touring party have tested positive for coronavirus but their four-day warm-up match against English county Sussex will still go ahead, cricket chiefs said on Friday.Batsman Henry Nicholls, seamer Blair Tickner and bowling...
`Debashish Chowdhury, the Bangladesh cricket team's chief physician, confirmed that Nayeem Hasan has been ruled out of the second Test against Sri Lanka due the finger injury he sustained in the opening game of the two-match series according to Cricbuzz....
YAOUNDE, May 20 (Reuters): Cameroon's government has signed a 420 billion CFA franc ($675.96 million) high-grade iron ore mining deal with a subsidiary of Sinosteel Corporation Limited, as China seeks new sources of the steel-making ingredient.Sinosteel Cam S.A., the Cameroonian...
Slovak state gas importer SPP has paid a bill for Russian natural gas in euros and has also opened a rouble account with Gazprombank, the company said on Friday, in effect accepting a payment scheme demanded by Moscow, reports Reuters.The...
Gold prices rose to a one-week high on Friday as dollar weakened, while growing economic concerns put bullion on track for its best week since atleast late-March, reports Reuters.A weaker greenback makes bullion attractive for overseas buyers, while gold is...
LONDON, May 20 (Reuters): Oil prices steadied on Friday, setting them on course for little change on the week, as a planned European Union ban on Russian oil balanced demand concerns over slowing economic growth.Brent futures for July were down...
France, Germany, Belgium report first monkeypox casesPARIS, May 20: France, Belgium and Germany on Friday reported their first cases of monkeypox, joining several other European and North American nations in detecting the disease, endemic in parts of Africa. Monkeypox was...
LONDON, May 20 (BBC): Modern "smart" farm machinery is vulnerable to malicious hackers, leaving global supply chains exposed to risk, experts are warning.It is feared hackers could exploit flaws in agricultural hardware used to plant and harvest crops.Agricultural manufacturing giant...
CHICAGO, May 20 (AP): Two people are dead and another eight wounded following a shooting near a fast food restaurant in Chicago that sent bystanders scattering, authorities said.The shooting happened about 10:40 p.m. Thursday near a McDonald's on the city's...
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday de-seated 25 dissident MPAs of the PTI who voted for PML-N's Hamza Shehbaz in the election for Punjab chief minister, stating that they had defected from the party, reports DAWN.A three-member bench...
KYIV, May 20 (Reuters/AFP): Russian forces bombarded areas of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region from land and air on Friday, destroying houses in residential districts and killing a number of civilians, Ukrainian officials said.President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the assaults had turned...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-05-21 00:00:00
Right now Sylhet is passing a nightmarish time on account of the worst floods the region has ever experienced. As many as three bridges have collapsed due to strong force of rushing waters. In this hilly region floodwaters, for reasons...
Hamida Mosharraf Moniea and Mohammad Khasro Miah | 2022-05-21 00:00:00
Amazon's cashierless stores are revolutionising the way people shop. Customers can get in and out quickly instead of waiting in a queue and running to the cash register to bag the groceries. While retailers like 7-Eleven, Kroger, and Walmart's Sam's...
Every season in Bangladesh comes to us with its own appeal. It becomes particularly visible when you pay a visit to a local fruit market as it offers a variety of fruits in different times of the year. We should...
The price of construction materials, particularly iron materials, is increasing alarmingly in Bangladesh. According to data of the state-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB), each tonne of MS (mild steel) rod has been selling for Tk 87,500 recently. But in...
Do you face difficulty falling asleep at night? Do you have the tendency of waking up at night? If you have these symptoms then you might be dealing with insomnia, a sleep disorder. According to a study, as many as...
Tanim Asjad | 2022-05-21 00:00:00
When children go to school in the morning, the roads and streets in Dhaka take a nice look. Though most of the children and their parents have to rush due to uncertain traffic, the movement of children in uniform and...
Unlike in the past, the outlay for the Annual Development Programme (ADP) for the next fiscal year (FY 2022-23) as approved by the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC), is clearly not an ambitious one. However, as it...
Ferdaus Ara Begum | 2022-05-21 00:00:00
The highest ever budget of Tk 6.77 trillion, about 12.27 per cent higher than the originally announced budget of last year, is going to be announced at a very tumultuous global situation. Almost all groundings of budget for FY23 are...
THAKURGAON, May 19 (UNB): BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's remark on pushing Khaleda Zia into the river from the Padma Bridge is tantamount to a direct 'death threat'. "I was...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-05-20 12:00:00
Turbulence in the currency market has become a cause for serious concern. Foreign exchange market, like the domestic commodity market, cannot be manipulated although the flow of forex's supply can be disrupted in time of greater demand. At times, the...
edotco Bangladesh Ltd., an integrated telecommunications infrastructure services company, has recently won multiple awards at the Global Best Employer Awards 2022 in Excellence in Training, Talent Management, and Managing Health at Work categories, reports UNB.In the individual categories, Ricky Steyn,...
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