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Bangladesh face Pakistan today

2022-06-01 00:00:00

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...

Qatar WC most expensive FIFA World Cup in history

2022-06-01 00:00:00

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...

Mominul reluctant to continue as Test captain

2022-06-01 00:00:00

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...

News in Brief -(2022-06-01)

2022-06-01 00:00:00

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...

Thousands mourn murdered Indian rapper

2022-06-01 00:00:00

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...

Death toll reaches 34 in Iran tower block collapse

2022-06-01 00:00:00

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...

China-backed Myanmar rebels call on junta to embrace peace talks

2022-06-01 00:00:00

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,...

Canada introduces law to freeze handgun sales, ban look-alike toys

2022-06-01 00:00:00

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...

Imran rules out U-turn on resignations

2022-06-01 00:00:00

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...

China sends 30 warplanes into Taiwan air defence zone

2022-06-01 00:00:00

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...

Biden rules out sending rocket systems to Ukraine

2022-06-01 00:00:00

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...

Russian troops take ‘control’ in part of Severodonetsk city

2022-06-01 00:00:00

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...

In remembrance of Tofazzul Hossain Manik Mia

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...

Dhaka's worsening traffic condition

2022-06-01 00:00:00

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...

Importance of population studies

2022-06-01 00:00:00

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...

Preparedness for norwesters

2022-06-01 00:00:00

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,...

Should money launderers deserve a reprieve?

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...

Stricter disciplinary regime in the health sector imperative

2022-06-01 00:00:00

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...

Is Bangladesh economy facing headwinds ?

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....

SNMB gets new executive body

FE REPORT | 2022-05-31 12:00:00

Prof Dr Shamim Momtaz Ferdousi Begum and Prof Dr Sadia Sultana have been elected president and general secretary of Society of Nuclear Medicine, Bangladesh (SNMB) respectively.In its recent annual general meeting, the society elected them, forming a new executive committee.It...

Standard Bank Training Institute organised a daylong workshop

2022-05-31 12:00:00

Standard Bank Training Institute organised a daylong workshop on 'Foreign Exchange-Account Services' with participation of 35 Trade Services Desk officials recently. Managing Director & CEO of the bank Khondoker Rashed Maqsood was present as the chief guest. SM Salim Uddin,...

MTB BAMLCO confce 2022

2022-05-31 12:00:00

Mutual Trust Bank Limited (MTB) arranged Branch Anti Money Laundering Compliance Officer (BAMLCO) Conference recently with a view to updating and creating awareness on key deliverables for Anti Money Laundering & Combating Financing of Terrorism (AML&CFT) compliance. More than 200...

'Amader Choto Nodi' --- The lost charm

Shihab Sarkar | 2022-05-31 12:00:00

"Amader choto nodi chole bankebanke (Meandering, flows down our small river) …." Educated Bengalee readers must have read these lines from a juvenile poem written by Rabindranath Tagore. In the poem, Tagore portrayed an idyllic picture of the rural river...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a photo session with the Army Selection Board

2022-05-31 00:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a photo session with the Army Selection Board at the Army Headquarters Multipurpose Complex in the Dhaka Cantonment on Monday — PID Photo

Monkeypox pandemic unlikely: WHO

2022-05-31 00:00:00

The World Health Organization does not believe the monkeypox outbreak outside of Africa will lead to a pandemic, an official said on Monday, adding that it remains unclear whether infected people who are not displaying symptoms can transmit the disease,...

India to cut coal power output

2022-05-31 00:00:00

India plans to reduce power generation from at least 81 coal-fired utilities over the next four years, the federal power ministry said in a letter, in an effort to replace expensive thermal generation with cheaper green energy sources, reports Reuters.The...

One death reported after a week

FE Report | 2022-05-31 00:00:00

The country reported a new death from the deadly covid-19 in the last 24 hours until Monday morning after one week.Taking the latest case into the account, the number of fatalities from the deadly disease reached to 29,131 in the...

Ride-sharing service ‘Borak’ starts journey

FE REPORT | 2022-05-31 00:00:00

Borak, the country's 17th ride-sharing service, hit the street on Monday. Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mostafa Jabbar inaugurated the service in the city. The minister, in his speech, expressed his pride that The Borak app was made by the country's...

Maritime ports asked to hoist signal No. 3 -

2022-05-31 00:00:00

The country's maritime ports have been advised to hoist the local cautionary signal three to alert vessels of a possible squall as deep convection is taking place over the North Bay, said the weather department on Monday, reports UNB.Squally weather...

TIB raps move to give amnesty to bringing it back

FE Report | 2022-05-31 00:00:00

The TIB on Monday expressed concern over the government's announcement of giving an opportunity to bring back the siphoned-off money in the form of remittances and with incentives.It is unethical and will further patronise money laundering, the Transparency International, Bangladesh...