Chaitra is the last month of the year in Bengali calendar. It is also the second and last month of spring season. Chaitra month has started from Wednesday (March 15). And Sylhet is under the grip of the storm at the beginning of Chaitra. On Wednesday night, there was rain in different parts of Sylhet along with storm. The weather ...

Erling Haaland equalled a Champions League record with a five-goal haul to ease Manchester City into the quarter-finals at RB Leipzig’s expense as a 7-0 win for the English champions secured an 8-1 aggregate victory on Tuesday. Haaland also set a new club record for goals in a season of 39 in the process as Pep Guardiola’s men reached the ...

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is willing to give a surety bond that he will appear in court on Saturday, he said in a video address as clashes continued between his supporters and law enforcers. A lower trial court in capital Islamabad had issued a arrest warrant for Khan for not appearing before it despite several summons. Khan is ...

The expanded World Cup in North America got even more supersized on Tuesday. The governing body of soccer increased the size of the 2026 tournament for the second time — six years after the first — by approving a bigger group stage for the inaugural 48-team event, AP reports. By retaining groups of four teams instead of moving to three, ...

Voting in Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) election has been suspended as pro-BNP lawyers started demonstrations soon after the polls began. Awami League-backed white panel lawyers started gathering in a queue from 8am to cast their votes. And some have cast their votes. But, later, authorities suspended the voting due to BNP-backed lawyers’ protest in the polling centre. A tense ...

First-day voting of the two-day Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) election began on Wednesday morning amid some tense situations. As some 3,000 ballot papers were torn on Tuesday night, uncertainty loomed whether the election to the SCBA will be held or not. The voting began at 10am. Only Awami League-backed lawyers were seen.

Two other metro rail stations–Kazipara and Mirpur-11–were opened for commuters from Wednesday morning. Now, the passengers can get into and down at these stations. The two stations were opened at 8:30am. The trains at all the stations run from 8:30am to 12:30pm every day of the week except Tuesday. The metro rail will now stop at Uttara North, Uttara Center, ...

Bangladesh and Thailand have agreed to seriously explore the prospects of an FTA (free trade agreement) to further enhance the bilateral trade between the two countries. Bangladesh also apprised the Thai side that a qualitative feasibility study is being undertaken by the Ministry of Commerce in this regard, UNB reports. Bangladesh and Thailand agreed to hold the Joint Trade Committee ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday sought more cooperation from Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the development of Bangladesh mainly its education, skill enhancement and infrastructures. She called for the support when a visiting delegation of ADB led by its President Masatsugu Asakawa paid a courtesy call on her at Hotel Intercontinental Dhaka. Prime Minister’s Speech Writer Md Nazrul Islam ...

To celebrate the astonishing contribution of women leaders in the Bangladeshi Health sector, USAID’s AUHC activity and Surjer Hashi Network (SHN) jointly organised a discussion to celebrate female champions in the health sector and discuss the healthcare sector’s contribution to empowering women in Bangladesh. The panel discussion took place in the Ball Room of The Amari Hotel on Tuesday (March ...