Lionel Messi scored a 95th-minute free-kick to give Paris Saint-Germain a 4-3 win over Lille in an extraordinary Ligue 1 game on Sunday in which Kylian Mbappe scored twice but Neymar was taken off on a stretcher with an ankle injury. Messi’s late winner came after PSG had squandered a two-goal lead and fallen 3-2 behind, with Mbappe grabbing a ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was admitted to United Hospital on Monday due to respiratory problem. The party media cell member Shayrul Kabir Khan confirmed the matter at 12:30pm. Earlier this morning, the senior BNP leader came to BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office. There he fell sick at 11:30am and was taken to the hospital. He is now under ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today conferred ‘Ekushey Padak 2023’ to 19 eminent personalities and two organizations in recognition of their contributions to various fields. She handed over the Ekushey Padak, the country’s second highest civilian award, at a ceremony at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in Dhaka. The Cultural Affairs Ministry organised the event on the occasion of ‘Amar Ekushey’ and International ...

The countrywide vitamin A plus campaign began at 10am on Monday with a target to provide the capsule to 2.20 crore children. Following health rules, one blue colour capsule will be given to each of the 25 lakh children aged six months to 11 months, while 1.95 crore children aged between 12 to 59 months will be fed red colour ...

Former communications minister and BNP’s former influential leader Barrister Nazul Huda died at about 10:00pm on Sunday (February 19, 2023) at Square Hospital in Dhaka, his wife Sigma Huda said. He was 80. Nazmul Huda was suffering from various complicated diseases over the last several years. He recently returned home from the hospital. Last week, his new party Trinamool BNP ...

A man, aged around 30 years old, was killed after a fire quickly tore through a residential building in the capital’s Gulshan Sunday evening, the fire service said. He was declared dead at 10:25pm after being rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of the hospital’s police outpost, said. Twenty-two people have been rescued so far from ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the goal of her government is to promote democracy and uplift people’s living standard. “Our goal is to preserve democracy and improve the fate of the people,” she said while inaugurating the Mirpur-Kalshi flyover for vehicular movement. The prime minister opened the 2.34 km flyover at a function at Kalshi intersection near Balur ...

No Covid-19 death was reported in 24 hours in the 24 hours till Sunday morning. The official death toll from the disease remained unchanged at 29,445. However, seven new Covid-19 cases were reported in the country, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), with the new numbers, the country’s total caseload rose to 2,037,750. The daily case test ...

The United Kingdom on Sunday underlined the importance of maintaining a level-playing field for foreign companies interested in investing and operating in Bangladesh. The UK invited Bangladesh to engage with the UK private sector to pursue a commercial dispute resolution system to unlock the full potential of Foreign Direct Investment into Bangladesh. At the Bangladesh-UK Trade and Investment Dialogue 2023 ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will not be able to contest in the next general election because of her conviction for corruption, Law Minister Anisul Huq said on Sunday. However, it is her personal matter whether she will take part in politics or not. The government will not interfere in this regard, he said. The law minister was talking to reporters ...