Habiganj Correspondent : A primary school teacher has been arrested for allegedly selling new textbooks. Ayesha Akter, daughter of late Abdullah Mia of village Kadamtali under Shayestaganj upazila in Habiganj district, is the headmistress of Kadamtali Non-Government Registered Primary School. The 45-year old teacher was detained by Upazila Education Officer Mohammad Ali along with others from Nasratour on Tuesday (January ...

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Wednesday announced the appointment of David Moore as its head of programmes. The 58-year-old Australian cricket professional has agreed to a two-year term with the BCB which starts next month, reports UNB. Moore will be responsible for planning, devising strategies, and implementing the high performance (HP) and Tigers’ programmes to ensure that they serve the ...

After electricity, now the government has hiked the gas prices for public, private and captive power plants and also for industries and commercial users. The new prices will be effective from February 1, according to a gazette notification issued on Wednesday. As per the gazette notification, the public and private power plants including the IPP and rental power plants will ...

At least 70 people have died in a wave of freezing temperatures sweeping Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday, as extreme weather compounds a humanitarian crisis in the poverty-stricken nation. Since January 10, the mercury has plunged in Kabul and several other provinces, with the central region of Ghor recording the lowest reading of -33°C over the weekend. “This winter is ...

Bangladesh’s economy has been experiencing stress for last couple of months because of the pressure on the foreign exchange reserves, continuous increase in commodity prices, energy crisis, dollar crisis in banks, decrease in expatriate income and collapse in export earnings. As a result, the businessmen are struggling to open letter of credit or LC. But, the money laundering is going ...

Rescuers called off the search Tuesday for victims of the Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, with 20 people still missing and funerals being held in the grief-stricken community. After the carnage, Ukrainians pressed ahead with talks to obtain more Western weapons, and Ukraine’s army chief Valery Zaluzhny met Mark Milley, chairman of ...

The overall number of global Covid-19 cases is gradually nearing 672 million, with the sudden surge of the virus’ Omicron sub-variant in Asia and some other parts of the world. According to the latest global data, the total Covid-19 case count mounted to 671,889,386 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,733,572 this morning, reports AP. The US has ...

Liton Das smashed an impressive 70 off a mere 42 deliveries, leading the Comilla Victorians to an emphatic five-wicket victory over the Sylhet Strikers, who suffered their first loss in the ongoing Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) after winning five matches on the trot. Comilla won the toss and elected to bowl first, restricting Strikers to a moderate total of 133 ...

Nepalese authorities on Tuesday began returning to families the bodies of plane crash victims and were sending the aircraft’s data recorder to France for analysis as they try to determine what caused the country’s deadliest air accident in 30 years. The flight plummeted into a gorge on Sunday while on approach to the newly opened Pokhara International Airport in the ...

The findings of recent research suggest that six minutes of high-intensity exercise could extend the lifespan of a healthy brain and delay the onset of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. New research published in The Journal of Physiology shows that a short but intense bout of cycling increases the production of a specialised protein that is ...