Manchester United will host Liverpool in an FA Cup quarter-final blockbuster after the bitter rivals took contrasting routes to their fifth round victories on Wednesday. United eased the pressure on beleaguered boss Erik ten Hag as they scraped through with a 1-0 win at Nottingham Forest thanks to Casemiro’s late goal, AFP reports. Fresh from their League Cup final triumph ...

Prime Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday (February 28) called upon people to remain vigilant to the market alongside the government monitoring to keep the prices of essential commodities at a tolerable level. “I call upon the country’s people to keep their vigilance (alongside the government monitoring) and it will make the work easy,” she told ...

Members of parliament (MPs) elected to 50 reserved seats for women uncontested have been sworn-in this (Wednesday) afternoon. Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered the oath to MPs-elect uncontested at the oath-taking chamber of Jatiya Sangsad around 3:40pm. At first, 48 Awami League MPs-elect were administered oath, followed by two MPs-elect of the main opposition Jatiya Party. After they ...

Transport workers in Sylhet withdrew their indefinite strike on Wednesday afternoon, after nine and a half hours. The decision came after the transport workers’ leaders held a meeting with Sylhet’s deputy commissioner and the city mayor at the district administration’s conference hall on Wednesday afternoon. They called the indefinite strike from 6am on Wednesday to press home their five-point demand, ...

The government has fixed the office timings of all government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies from 9:00am to 3:30pm during the upcoming holy month of Ramadan. Besides, there will be a break of 15 minutes from 1.15pm to 1.30pm for Zohr prayer. The timings were fixed at a cabinet meeting held on Wednesday (February 28), Cabinet Secretary Mahbub Hossain said ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina unveiled the covers of two books, which are compilations of her speeches given in the United Nations (UN) and to the nation, in the Cabinet meeting today. The books are “Sokoler Tore Sokole Amra” which contains 19 speeches of the Prime Minister given in the UN and their English translation, and “Ahoban”, a collection of her ...

The High Court on Wednesday upheld the former deputy inspector general (DIG) of police Mizanur Rahman’s jail sentence in a graft case. An HC bench of Justice Md Kamrul Hossain Mollah passed the order. Adv Khurshid Alam was present in the court on behalf of the Anti-Corruption commission (ACC). Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-6 Judge Manzurul Islam on June 21 sentenced ...

Mindfulness, group and cognitive behavioural therapy could effectively treat menopause symptoms such as low mood and anxiety, analysis suggests. The University College London research, published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, examined 30 studies involving 3,500 women in 14 countries, including the UK, the US and Australia. Draft NHS guidelines recommend offering CBT alongside or instead of HRT. It could “give ...

A power company that has received £6bn in UK green subsidies has kept burning wood from some of the world’s most precious forests, the BBC has found. Papers obtained by Panorama show Drax took timber from rare forests in Canada it had claimed were “no go areas”. It comes as the government decides whether to give the firm’s Yorkshire site ...

Apple has reportedly cancelled its plans to build electric vehicles (EV) a decade after the iPhone maker was rumoured to be working on the project. The firm has never publicly acknowledged the project, which involves around two thousand people. Many employees from the project will be moved to the iPhone maker’s artificial intelligence (AI) division, according to Bloomberg News. Apple ...