Sylhet Strikers have won the toss and elected to field first against Cumilla Victorians in their third match of Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka. The match kicks off at 1:30 pm, Monday. Sylhet are currently occupying the top spot of the league table after winning the first two matches clinically while Cumilla remain in the sixth ...

Thirty-nine people were killed and more than 100 others injured when two buses crashed in a head-on collision overnight on an arterial road in Senegal’s central Kaffrine region, President Macky Sall told reporters Sunday. Images of the incident showed the completely mangled front end of a white bus, with blood-flecked seats, personal items and a shoe strewn around the tree-lined ...

Pakistan and New Zealand will face off in the first of three one-day internationals in Karachi Monday, with an eye on this year’s World Cup in India. The preceding Test series between the two teams failed to produce a result in either of the two Tests — both in Karachi — ending a miserable season for both teams. Pakistan failed ...

The Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) has made a proposal to Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) seeking electricity supply at low price for metro rail. The DMTCL made the proposal to the power distribution company concerned during a public hearing for power tariff hike held at the Shaheed AKM Shamsul Huque Khan Auditorium of BIAM  in the capital on ...

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Sunday said Bangladesh is a democratic country and urged those, who have confusion about the next national election, to read Bangladesh’s history. “Awami League has always formed government through election. We will surely welcome international observers. We have nothing to hide,” he told reporters after the inauguration of the e-gates at Sylhet Airport, ...

In the constant rut of life, our mental and emotional health often gets compromised. While a healthy diet and stress-free lifestyle are crucial for your overall well-being, you also need to go the extra mile to release the emotional burden that’s constantly bothering you. Did you know that yoga can help a great deal in keeping your emotional health in ...

You may be putting in every effort to make sure your food is clean and healthy, but even the slightest mistakes or oversights in cooking can result in a loss of nutrients in the food. As such, how you cook, for how long you cook, the cookware you use, and the ingredients you use all play a major role in ...

Law enforcers surrounding a house at Jagannathpur in Sunamganj district have found huge quantity of explosive making equipment. Special teams of the Bangladesh Army and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) carried out a drive into the house on Sunday morning. It is learnt that one Afzal, son of Akhlakur Rahman, of village Digholbak Atghar under Jagannathpur upazila fled witnessing a police ...

Total Fitness Day was observed in various parts of the country for the first time amid enthusiasm among people to be fit physically, mentally, socially and spiritually. Several hundreds people from different professional groups and common people including artists, journalists and students celebrated the day joining in more than 120 parks in Dhaka and other district towns Friday. The Quantum ...

Bangladesh is now the 35th largest economy in the world, according to a report titled ‘The Top Heavy Global Economy’, published by ‘Visual Capitalist’. Bangladesh and India were the only two South Asian countries considered to be part of the 50 largest economies in this list based on International Monetary Fund (IMF) statistics. Citing IMF statistics, Canadian online publication ‘Visual ...