Towhid Hridoy and Jaker Ali Anik created a new record in ICC Champions Trophy during Bangladesh’s opening match against India at Dubai International Cricket Stadium. Although Bangladesh lost the game by six wickets, the 154-run partnership between Towhid Hridoy and Jaker Ali Anik is not only the highest sixth-wicket partnership for Bangladesh, but also the highest for any team against ...

Rome’s finance police have arrested five individuals, including three officials from the Italian Embassy in Dhaka, on charge of bribery and visa trafficking. According to local authorities, among those arrested people, two are Bangladeshis, one of whom–Nazrul Islam– is believed to be the mastermind behind the syndicate. Nazrul, a resident of Rome, has been associated with the Italian chapter of ...

The nation is paying glowing tributes to the language martyrs on the occasion of The Great Martyrs Day and the International Mother Language Day Marking the ‘Amar Ekushey’, people  from all walks of life paid homage to the language movement heroes, the valiant sons of this soil who made supreme sacrifice to establish Bangla as the mother-language in 1952, by ...

The government of Japan has allocated $3.2 million (JPY 500 million) to support WHO’s (World Health Organization) efforts aimed at reducing morbidity and preventable mortality among the Rohingya refugees and host community in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char. An exchange of notes was signed by Saida Shinichi, Ambassador of Japan to Bangladesh, and Dr Ahmed Jamsheed Mohamed, the World Health ...

Police recovered the body of a 50-year-old man from a residential hotel in Sylhet’s sadar upazila on Thursday afternoon. The body of Shamsul Alam, a resident of Mirpur-12 in Dhaka, was recovered from Lalbazar area in the upazila. Confirming the matter, Kotwali Model Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md Ziaul Haque said that Shamsul had arrived in Sylhet for business purposes on ...

The nation remembered the language martyrs with humble respect, solemnity and due dignity in the first hour of Ekushey. Breaking the silence of the night, historic immortal song ‘Amar Vaiyer Rokte Rangano Ekushey February . . . Ami Ki Vulitey Pari?’ played out from the Central Shaheed Minar. After 12midnight on Thursday,  President Mohammed Shahabuddin, marking his second Ekushey as ...

Neymar, Memphis Depay, and Thiago Silva are leading a protest against the use of artificial turf in Brazil’s top football leagues, citing concerns over the increased risk of injuries for players on such surfaces. The three stars voiced their concerns online on Tuesday, expressing dissatisfaction with the growing trend of artificial pitches in the country. Several top Brazilian clubs have ...

A court in Dhaka on Wednesday granted remand for different days for former ministers Anisul, Menon, Inu, Faruk Khan; and former state ministers Dipankar Talukdar and Kamal Majumdar in separate cases. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate MA Azharul Islam issued the remand orders. Former Law Minister Anisul Haque has been granted a five-day remand in a murder case related to the student ...

President of Romania Ilie Bolojan has praised the longstanding Bangladesh-Romania friendship and stressed Romania’s interest in expanding labour recruitment from Bangladesh. He acknowledged Bangladeshi workers’ contributions to Romania’s economy and encouraged stronger business-to-business engagements. The Romanian President assured that necessary actions would be taken to resolve the visa challenges and support smoother access for Bangladeshi workers and students. Earlier, Ambassador ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov decided to appoint teams to negotiate ending Ukraine war after meeting in Riyadh on Tuesday. The US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce confirmed the development, reports BBC. Tammy Bruce said that Rubio and Lavrov agreed to appoint respective high-level teams to begin working on a path to ending ...