Just like in the World Cup final, Paris Saint-Germain teammates Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe go up against one another for The Best FIFA Men’s Player prize for 2022 on Monday, with Ballon d’Or Karim Benzema the other contender. The ceremony takes place in Paris, and Messi appears as the favourite to add another individual gong to his collection after ...

Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated 43 development projects and laid foundation stones of five other projects at a cost of Tk 329 crore to ensure overall development of her home district Gopalganj. She inaugurated the projects on Saturday after unveiling a plaque by pressing a button at a grand public rally organised by Kotalipara ...

President Abdul Hamid on Saturday said common people are not responsible for even one percent of defaulted loans from banks while big businessmen and industrialists willfully take loans with an intention of not paying back. “They take loans (with an intention) not to pay. Of course, some bankers are also involved with it,” he said at the sixth convocation of ...

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has reiterated his proposal to create a ministerial forum on South-South Cooperation to explore potentials and share lessons on priorities and concerns of the Global South. “It is a high time to establish a forum comprising the Foreign and Finance or Development Cooperation Ministers of the Global South for them to regularly meet and exchange ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has alleged that the Pilkhana carnage aimed at demoralising the Army. He made the remarks on Saturday after placing wreaths at a monument set up at Banani Army Graveyard in memory of the army officials killed in the Pilkhana Carnage, marking the 14th anniversary of the incident. Fakhrul said the conspirators had committed ...

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has shaken the central Anatolian Turkish province of Nigde, the Kandilli earthquake monitoring centre said, just over two weeks after two devastating earthquakes that killed more than 50,000 people in Turkey and Syria. Saturday’s earthquake had a depth of 7km (4.34 miles) and hit the Bor district at 1:27pm (10:27 GMT), the Turkish disaster management agency ...

Researchers have discovered that dipeptides containing 2-oxo-imidazole (2-oxo-IDPs) have extremely significant antioxidant activity. Also, they developed a technique to specifically and sensitively detect very minute concentrations of 2-oxo-IDPs and discovered for the first time that several forms of 2-oxo-IDPs are contained in meat, including beef, pork, and chicken. Imidazole dipeptides (IDPs), which are abundant in meat and fish, are substances ...

Organ damage persisted in 59 per cent of long Covid patients a year after initial symptoms, even in those not severely affected when first diagnosed with the virus, according to researchers, led by one of an Indian-origin. The findings, published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, confirmed that 29 per cent of patients with long Covid had ...

Moulvibazar Correspondent : A young man allegedly committed suicide at Kamolganj upazila in Moulvibazar district on Thursday evening. Deceased Md Mosobbir Hossain, 22, was son of Shafiq Miah, a resident of Noagaon village under Madhobpur union of the upazila. According to locals, Mosobbir was mentally imbalanced, for this reason his younger brother Motassir took him to a kabiraj. He drink ...

Manchester United will aim to end their six-year trophy drought when Erik ten Hag’s resurgent side face Newcastle in Sunday’s League Cup final, while the Magpies’ Saudi-funded revolution could produce the club’s first major prize since 1969. As underachieving members of English football’s aristocracy in recent years, United hope the showpiece at Wembley can serve as a long-awaited rebirth. However, ...