Manchester United forward Anthony Martial will miss Saturday’s FA Cup final against Manchester City due to a hamstring problem. The Frenchman sustained the injury after coming off the bench against Fulham on Sunday in United’s final game of the Premier League season, AFP reports. “Anthony Martial is out of Saturday’s FA Cup final against Manchester City due to injury,” United ...

Considering the office goers’ facilitation, the metro rail will operate from 8am-till 8pm from Wednesday (May 31). Meanwhile, train services will remain closed on Friday instead of Tuesday. This schedule will remain effective from Uttara’s north station to Agargaon. As per the new timing, the trains will run every 10 minutes from 8am-11pm (peak hours), every 15 minutes from 11:01am-3pm ...

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md. Shahriar Alam on Tuesday (May 30) said the friendship between Bangladesh and the United States has deepened and broadened to the length that allows the two countries to frankly debate on their differences. Addressing a special photo exhibition styled, “Roots of Friendship: 50 Years of US-Bangladesh Relations”, he said the growing engagement between the ...

Pyari Begum, the lead female actress of the first ever Bangla feature film ‘Mukh O Mukhosh’, passed away on Tuesday. She breathed her last in the afternoon at her Uttara residence. She was 87. Pyari Begum’s son Rabiul Amin confirmed her death news to the media. Pyari Begum’s demise follows the passing of Zahrat Ara, her co-actress in ‘Mukh O ...

Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA) on Tuesday urged the woven and knit garment makers to open back-to-back letters of credit (LCs) and buy yarn from the local market to reduce stockpiling of unsold yarn and save US dollar. The textile millers also demanded the government for increasing the allocation from the Export Development Fund (EDF) to US$30 million from $20 ...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday filed a case against Chairman of Grameen Communications Dr Muhammad Yunus and 12 others on charge of misappropriating about Tk 25 crore of Grameen Telecom’s Workers Profit Participation Fund. Gulshan Anowar Prodhan, deputy director of the ACC, filed the case with its integrated district office. The top officials of the anti-graft body confirmed it. ...

■ Sunil Singha ■ As part of the long-standing cooperation between India and Bangladesh in the field of Science & Technology, the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) hosted a Joint Scientific Symposium in partnership with India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Dhaka on 30 May 2023. The subject of the Symposium was “Advanced Functional ...

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal will place a national budget of over Tk 7.61 lakh crore for the next fiscal year (FY24) at the Jatiya Sangsad on Thursday (June 1) with a major focus on containing inflation, generating jobs, efforts towards building a ‘Smart Bangladesh’ and addressing the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). The budget size of Tk ...

A highway gun attack on security forces in northern Mexico left 10 people dead on Monday, authorities said. “Civil Force personnel were attacked with bullets by subjects who were traveling aboard three armored trucks,” Nuevo Leon Public Security Secretary Gerardo Palacios wrote on Facebook. Ten criminal suspects were killed and four officers injured, he added. The attack took place along ...

Shootings across the U.S. left at least 16 people dead and dozens more injured over Memorial Day weekend. The gun violence occurred at beaches, high schools and motorcycle rallies, among other locations, across at least eight states. The victims were teenagers to people in their 60s. The weekend concluded as it began — with gunfire. Nine people were injured in ...