WASHINGTON, Mar 28 (AFP): The United States updated rules Wednesday which it said would reduce the waste of natural gas, citing economic and environmental motives for the move.The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said modernizing the more than 40-year-old regulations...
KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 28 (Reuters): Malaysia will submit an request to India to procure an additional 500,000 metric tons of white rice, its agriculture minister said.The request would be in addition to the 170,000 tons of white rice India has...
On the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan, Janata Bank Independence Officers Parishad distributed Iftar items among destitute people at the bank's head office premises in the capital on Wednesday. President of the organization Mohammad Mehedi Hasan presided over...
Oil prices will gain some momentum this year as demand picks up and output curbs by the OPEC+ producer group continue to squeeze supply that is already being pressured by military conflicts, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday.A survey of...
PARIS, March 28 (AFP): Chelsea reached the semi-finals of the Women's Champions League (CL) on Wednesday despite a 1-1 draw at home to Ajax, while Lyon also progressed after brushing aside Benfica in France.Mayra Ramirez put Chelsea into a first-half...
Rajasthan Royals' Yashasvi Jaiswal walks back to the pavilion after his dismissal during the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket match between Delhi Capitals and Rajasthan Royals at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on Thursday — AFP
BEIJING, March 28 (AFP): Former China coach and ex-Everton midfielder Li Tie went on trial Thursday on allegations of bribery, state media said, part of a broader crackdown on corruption in football in the country.His former boss, the fallen Chinese...
Fakirerpool Young Mens Club thrashed BFF Elite Football Academy team by 6-0 goals in a match of the Bangladesh Championship League football that resumed on Thursday at Birshreshtha Shaheed Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium, reports BSS.In the day's match, Dalim...
Kasun Rajitha has been ruled out of the second Test against Bangladesh set to begin tomorrow (Saturday), Sri Lanka Cricket has confirmed, with Asitha Fernando to swap in as his replacement, reports espncricinfo.com.Rajitha is understood to have injured his back...
Title aspirant Abahani Limited registered their eighth successive victories in the Green Delta Insurance Premier Division Hockey League beating Bangladesh Sporting Club by 6-2 goals in the second match of the day held at Maulana Bhashani National Hockey Stadium on...
Sharfuddoula Ibne Shahid said on Thursday it was a "great honour" to be named the first Bangladeshi to join the International Cricket Council's Elite Panel of umpires, reports AFP.Sharfuddoula, 47, who last year became the first umpire from Bangladesh to...
KYIV, Mar 28 (AFP): Ukraine downed 26 drones overnight as Russia launched its latest salvo of aerial attacks, a senior Ukrainian military official said on Thursday."On the night of March 28, 2024, the enemy launched a missile air strike against...
NEW DELHI, Mar 28 (Reuters): An Indian court extended the custody of opposition leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal until April 1 on Thursday in a graft case related to the national capital territory's liquor policy, local media said.India's...
NAIROBI, Mar 28 (AP): The world wasted an estimated 19% of the food produced globally in 2022, or about 1.05 billion metric tons, according to a new United Nations report.The U.N. Environment Programme's Food Waste Index Report, published Wednesday, tracks...
PARÍS, Mar 28 (BBC): France's prime minister says a teenage girl will be sued by the state for falsely accusing her headteacher of striking her in a heated exchange over her wearing an Islamic head-covering.The headteacher insisted that the pupil...
MANILA, Mar 28 (Reuters): The Philippines will implement countermeasures against "illegal, coercive, aggressive, and dangerous attacks" by China's coastguard, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Thursday, upping the stakes in an escalating row in the South China Sea.The Philippines is...
GAZA, Mar 28 (BBC/AFP/AP): After months of warnings, a recent UN-backed report offered hard statistical evidence that the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is turning into a man-made famine.It has increased the pressure on Israel to fulfil its legal responsibilities to...
ROCKFORD, Mar 28 (AP): Four people were killed and seven were hurt when a man went on a stabbing rampage Wednesday across multiple locations in a northern Illinois community, authorities said.A 22-year-old man is in police custody and was being...
Greater Rangpur Bidi Workers Union formed a human chain on Thursday to press for their four-point demand, including a cut in tax on bidis in the upcoming budget.About 1,000 workers took part in the demonstration held in front of Rangpur...
Three passengers were killed and four others injured in a collision between a bus and a CNG-run autorickshaw on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Ujanpara in Trishal upazila on Thursday, reports UNB.The dead are Rubaiya Tasnim (2), daughter of Shamim Ahmed of...
FARIDPUR, Mar 28 (UNB): Around hundreds of houses were damaged while a number of trees were uprooted during a nor'wester in Faridpur district early Thursday.Twenty villages under Pachuria and Bana unions in Alfadanga upazila of the district were battered by...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-03-29 00:00:00
GOPALGANJ, MAR 28: Farmers of Muksudpur Upazila in the district are highly benefitting from their WMRI-2 and BARI-32 wheat varieties this year as their harvest is going on in full swing.A total of 3,655 hectares of land has been brought...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-03-29 00:00:00
COX'S BAZAR, Mar 28: Cox's Bazar beach, the longest natural sea beach in the world, is now experiencing a severe dearth of tourists for the holy month of Ramadan, reflecting dull business in the tourism industry here. During a recent...
Akhtar Husain Khan | 2024-03-29 00:00:00
The celebrated prosaist and founder of the Bloomsbury Group in London, Lytton Strachey, in the preface to his book 'Eminent Victorians' started with a customary amazing line: "The history of the Victorian age will never be written; we know too...
In Bangladesh, the labyrinth of bureaucratic hurdles, delays, and inefficiencies collectively known as red tapism has long been a thorn in the side of businesses. While the country boasts a thriving entrepreneurial spirit and a growing economy, the pervasive influence...
Banshkhali in Chattogram is a unique township nestled amidst hills and seas. The canal flowing through the heart of this upazila is known as Jalkadar canal, encompassing a significant part of the heritage of this 150-square-mile area. Towards the northern...
Zahid Huq | 2024-03-29 00:00:00
It is not at all surprising that the stock market has been on a decline since the day the securities regulator announced the withdrawal of the floor price restriction mechanism in phases.The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) feared a...
Nilratan Halder | 2024-03-29 00:00:00
One of the most crucial yet neglected services in urban conundrum is that of helping hands in households. According to a report, the total number of such workers in the world is 70.60 million. In Bangladesh, the figure of such...
With the inclusion of LNG-fired electricity generating plants in the capacity payment scheme for unsold power, the strain on public funds is increasingly proving overwhelming. Over the years, the government has been disbursing capacity charges to independent power producers (IPPs),...
David Fielding, Selim Raihan, Katushi Imai, Upasak Das, and Mahtab Uddin | 2024-03-29 00:00:00
Bangladesh has witnessed remarkable economic growth and development in the last three decades. However, the Covid-19 pandemic, followed by the Russia-Ukraine war and the global energy crisis, has put Bangladesh to the test on several frontiers. There is a growing...
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