The three one-day international (ODI) matches that were part of the Pakistan's planned tour of Sri Lanka have been scrapped, it emerged on Monday, according to the Pakistani newspaper Dawn.Pakistan was originally slated to play two Tests and three ODIs...
MANCHESTER, May 09 (Reuters): Manchester City lifted the gloom of their Champions League exit to seize control of the Premier League title race with a 5-0 hammering of Newcastle United and Everton took a big leap towards safety on Sunday.Arsenal...
Sri Lanka's players attend a practice session at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in the city on Monday, ahead of their first cricket Test match against Bangladesh — AFP
Bangladesh will face Sri Lanka in their 2nd Pool B match of the Men's Asian Games Hockey Qualifiers in the Thai capital Bangkok this (Tuesday) afternoon, reports UNB.The match will kick off at 2:30 pm Bangkok time.Earlier on Saturday, Bangladesh...
6.2-magnitude quake hits waters off TaiwanBEIJING, May 09: A 6.2-magnitude earthquake jolted the waters off eastern Taiwan's Hualien County at 2:23 p.m. Monday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Centre. The epicentre was monitored at 24.01 degrees north latitude and...
LONDON, May 09 (AFP): G7 foreign ministers on Monday voiced misgivings about how Hong Kong's new leader was chosen, accusing the Chinese territory of flouting democratic convention.Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the United States joined the EU...
NEW DELHI, May 09 (AP): Authorities in New Delhi stopped a demolition drive in a Muslim-dominated neighborhood after hundreds of residents and a number of opposition party workers gathered in protest Monday.No buildings were razed down before the bulldozers retreated.Anti-Muslim...
BEIJING, May 09 (Reuters): China's President Xi Jinping told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday that all efforts must be made to avoid the Ukraine conflict turning into an "unmanageable situation", Chinese state radio reported."All efforts must be made to...
MOSCOW, May 09 (AFP/Reuters): President Vladimir Putin on Monday insisted Russia was defending the "Motherland" by its war in Ukraine, as Moscow staged a show of force at a military parade marking the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany.Ukrainian leader Volodymyr...
Koromcha (Karonda fruit, also called Black Currant) hanging from the branches of a tree. The photo was taken from the Ashuganj Toll Plaza area in Brahmanbaria district on Monday — Focus Bangla
RAJSHAHI, May 09 (BSS): Over 0.67 million (6.76 lakh) tonnes of Aus paddy are expected to be produced from 0.22 million (2.23 lakh) hectares of land in the division during the current season.Target has been set to produce 0.53 million...
NARSINGDI, May 09 (BSS): Farmers of Narsingdi are happy as they are getting bumper production of the summer vegetables and its fair prices in the local markets this season.For the last couple of weeks, farmers have been much busy harvesting...
DINAJPUR, May 09 (UNB): Vehicles in eight northern districts are not getting fuel oil at the petrol pumps to run the wheels as the supply of fuel oil remained stopped after Eid-ul-Fitr, causing immense suffering to people. According to petrol...
Mohammad Tarikul Islam | 2022-05-10 00:00:00
Traditionally, rural development in Bangladesh has been broadly defined as agricultural dependence, and the agricultural sector has remained an important part of rural development in Bangladesh to this day. Moreover, rural development is essentially complementary to poverty alleviation. The Government...
The Covid-19 pandemic has already affected our education sector. However, we have not yet seen any specific plans implemented to recover the learning loss created by the pandemic. If we want to change our future and achieve the goals set...
Unofficial estimates say that there are more than 200,000 vendors doing business on the footpaths of Dhaka city. They sell several kinds of items from dawn to dusk. And their roadside presence often causes inconvenience to pedestrians as well as...
Nursing is undoubtedly a noble profession. However, nurses in Bangladesh often feel undervalued. The physician to nurse ratio is 2:1, while that for patient to nurse is about 8000:1 in the country. This is deplorable. If nurses get their due...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-05-10 00:00:00
As the reports go, hundreds of thousands of visitors have flooded the major tourist spots of the country. In Cox's Bazar, accommodation in most of the hotels, motels, guest houses and cottages was booked before the Eid. The tourism operators...
Shihab Sarkar | 2022-05-10 00:00:00
Even a few years ago, the number of people setting out for Eid-time home trips on motorbikes was just a handful. This unconventional travel was not for everyone, as it required a lot of courage as well as enough physical...
In the early years, making a digital Bangladesh sounded more like a political hype than a reality as it still does to the uninitiated. But the country's transition to the desired goal is taking a shape slowly but surely. The...
Yasir Wardad | 2022-05-09 12:00:00
Except a few big shops in the essential commodity markets, most of the city groceries were still out of soybean oil on Sunday, although the government raised its price by a record high of Tk 38 a litre to Tk...
Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity (JKS) on Sunday demanded resignation of Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan for allowing unethical interference of his wife in his ministry's affairs, reports UNB. Mozammel Haque Chowdhury, general secretary of JKS, placed the demand in a...
GOALANDA, May 8 (UNB): As Eid-ul-Fitr holiday came to an end people from south-western districts started returning to their workstations in the capital but the journey is taking several hours more due to gridlock at Daulatdia ferry terminal.Shariful Islam, a...
The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection has seized more than 3,000 litres of soybean oil of different brands from the storage of a retail shop and the house of a retailer in Chattogram, reports bdnews24.com.Officials recovered the bottles as...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-09 00:00:00
Twenty-three new Covid-19 cases and zero death from the virus were reported in Bangladesh on Sunday.The figures were 10 and zero respectively on Saturday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).With the latest daily counts, the total fatalities...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-09 00:00:00
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has observed that a court cannot pass an order to absorb the employees or officers of a project who have been appointed on contract basis under the revenue budget unless there is any...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-09 00:00:00
The suspension order against Bangladesh Railway's travelling ticket examiner (TTE) Md Shafiqul Islam was withdrawn on Sunday following widespread criticism on the social media and protests from different quarters. At the same time, the railway authorities have formed a three-member...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-09 00:00:00
Onshore Kailashtila gas field started supplying around 19 million cubic feet of gas per day (mmcfd) to the country's national gas grid from Saturday night.The new gas source was found following workover on Kailashtila-7 well by state-run oil and gas...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-09 00:00:00
Until now there is no possibility of cyclone ‘Ashani’ hitting Bangla-desh, State Minister for Relief and Disaster Management Dr Enamur Rahman said on Sunday."The meteorologists and international weather office thought that the cyclone will become a low pressure after touching...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-09 00:00:00
The country's largest seaport in Chittagong is procuring sophisticated equipment to enhance its capacity. In the latest development, as of Sunday, two key gantry cranes and three rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes have reached the port. Another consignment carrying a similar...
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