Astronomers have discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter, putting the total count at a record-breaking 92. That’s more than any other planet in our solar system. Saturn, the one-time leader, comes in a close second with 83 confirmed moons, AP reports. The Jupiter moons were added recently to a list kept by the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, said ...

Up to 40 countries could boycott the next Olympic Games, making the whole event pointless, said Poland’s sport and tourism minister Kamil Bortniczuk. His comments came after Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia jointly rejected an International Olympic Committee (IOC) plan to allow Russians and Belarusians to compete in 2024. Ukraine has threatened to boycott the Paris Olympics if that occurs. ...

The government on Friday gave directives to the relevant authorities to keep the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Dedicated Covid-19 Hospital ready in the wake of the spread of the Nipah virus in 28 districts of the country. The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) issued the directives asking the hospital authorities to keep 10 beds at the isolation ward ...

The 4th Bangla-India international film festival held at Delhi’s Sri Fort auditorium on Friday (Feb 3). The festival was inaugurated by Chief Guest, Shaban Mahmood, Minister Press, of the Bangladesh High Commission in India. Shaban Mahmood spoke at his discussion moderated by popular film maker Ashish Ranjan Das and said programme like these increase people to people contact and usher ...

Hosts Bangladesh got their campaign off to a winning start beating Nepal 3-1 in their opening fixture of the SAFF U-20 Women’s Championship at the Birshreshtha Shaheed Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur on Friday. Bangladesh took only three minutes to break the deadlock when Aklima Khatun raced on to a long-ball from Shaheda Akter Ripa and beat the Nepal goalkeeper ...

Flight operations at Sylhet Osmani International Airport have resumed three hours into closure of the runway after the wheel of a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight got punctured just before taking off. Bangladesh Biman’s flight (BG-208) took off the runway at the airport at about 4:10pm on Friday (February 3). Earlier, the tyre of the wheel of Dhaka-bound Boeign 737 aircraft ...

A terminally ill peer was cheered as he made his first appearance in the House of Lords for almost two years. Frank Field, 80, arrived in the chamber in a wheelchair and was pushed to the despatch box so he could pledge allegiance to the King. The former minister, known as Lord Field of Birkenhead, waved to colleagues who then ...

China said on Friday that cross border travel between the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau would fully resume from February 6, dropping existing quotas and scrapping a mandatory COVID-19 test that was required before travelling, Hindustan Times reported. Group tours between China and its two special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau would resume, while the number of customs ...

Star-studded action spectacle Pathaan has earned Rs 667 crore gross worldwide in eight days, said production house Yash Raj Films (YRF) on Thursday. Directed by Siddharth Anand, the globetrotting espionage thriller was released globally in Hindi with dubbed versions in Tamil and Telugu on January 25. It stars Shah Rukh Khan, John Abraham and Deepika Padukone. According to YRF, on ...

Two more people were hospitalised with dengue in the 24 hours to Friday morning. The new patients were admitted to hospitals in Dhaka, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Thirty-eight dengue patients, including 22 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country. So far, the DGHS has recorded 578 dengue cases, 534 recoveries, ...