Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney heads to India this week pushing to double trade and mend fractured ties, his first stop on an Asia-Pacific tour that also includes Australia and Japan as he seeks to reduce reliance on the United States. Carney has said that the US-led global order is fading and that Canada should not expect the old system ...

Manchester United’s Benjamin Sesko came off the bench to score a vital goal for the second game in a row as he fired the winner in a 1-0 Premier League win at Everton on Monday. Sesko sealed an uninspiring clash at the Hill Dickinson Stadium in the 71st minute as he swept in a clinical first-time shot from Bryan Mbeumo’s ...

The High Court has issued a rule asking why a job circular published by Ibn Sina Pharmaceutical Industry seeking applications exclusively from practising Muslim men for executive and senior executive posts should not be declared illegal. In the same rule, the court also sought to know why directives should not be issued to formulate and implement non-discriminatory recruitment policies across ...

Abdul Qaiyum Chowdhury is the new administrator of Sylhet City Corporation. He is president of Sylhet district BNP. Former office secretary of the central committee of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, Abdul Qaiyum Chowdhury also served as organising secretary and vice-president of the central Jubo Dal committee. He was political secretary to former finance and planning minister M Saifur Rahman. He was ...

Within a week of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) coming to power, the previous administrators of six city corporations across the country, including Dhaka north and south, were replaced. All those appointed to these posts are leaders of the BNP. Immediately after taking office, local government minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said elections in local government institutions would be arranged ...

Every year on February 21, International Mother Language Day arrives with a quiet yet powerful reminder: language is not only how we speak, but also how we live, dress, and express who we are. Across Bangladesh and beyond, the day is observed with solemn respect, cultural pride, and creative expression. In recent years, one of the most vibrant ways people ...

An awareness meeting on adolescent-friendly sexual and reproductive health and rights (SAY-SRHR) was held at Hakimpur upazila in Dinajpur district on Monday morning. The meeting was organised at 11:00 AM under the chairmanship of Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Ashok Bikram Chakma. The programme was arranged by the GAP Health and Development Programme of LAMB Hospital under the “Supportive Adolescent and ...

Commerce Minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir has said that the overall market situation remains satisfactory and that positive changes in market management will be visible very soon. Speaking to journalists on Monday after conducting a surprise inspection at Mohammadpur Town Hall Kitchen Market in Dhaka, the adviser said the visit was aimed at monitoring whether essential commodities were being sold at ...

New Zealand will embrace their status as Indian cricket fans’ “second favourite team” as they look to navigate a tough Super Eight group and reach the semi-finals of the Twenty20 World Cup, all-rounder Daryl Mitchell said. The 2021 finalists, who were knocked out in the group stage at the last edition, find themselves facing two must-win matches against former champions ...

Supreme Court Senior Advocate Barrister Raghib Rauf Chowdhury has been appointed as the new attorney general, said law ministry sources. Raghib Rauf Chowhdury completed his SSC studies at Kushtia Zilla School and HSC at the Notre Dame College in Dhaka. He graduated in political science from the Aligarh Muslim University in India, and did his master’s studies at the University ...