Cumilla’s Brahmanpara upazila is now submerged by flood water. At least 30 villages of the upazila have been flooded since Saturday evening to Sunday morning as the embankment of the Gumti River has broke down. The water began to rise on Saturday afternoon and the houses in the upazila were completely submerged by evening. According to the upazila administration, around ...

Luis Suarez struck twice as ten-man Inter Miami became the first team to book their place in this season’s Major League Soccer playoffs after beating Cincinnati 2-0 at Chase Stadium on Saturday. Uruguayan veteran Suarez scored just 32 seconds into the game and added a second five minutes later as Miami, without injured superstar Lionel Messi, secured their place in ...

Former Textile and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi was arrested from a house in the capital’s Shantinagar area early Sunday. A team of Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested him at about 3AM from a house of Dastagir’s relative. Confirming the arrest news, Paltan Police Station OC Mollah Mohammad Khalid Hussain said Golam Dastagir Gazi, also the chairman of Gazi ...

Sixteen gates of the spillway of Kaptai Dam in Rangamati have been opened at a height of six inches at 8:10AM on Sunday. Now the water, which has reached near the danger level, is being released through these 16 gates. The Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) confirmed the matter this morning. ATM Abduzzaher, manager of Kaptai Hydropower Plant, said it ...

Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was reportedly arrested on Saturday evening at Bourget Airport near Paris, according to unnamed sources cited by the French media outlets TF1 TV and BFM TV. Telegram, particularly influential in Russia, Ukraine and the republics of the former Soviet Union, is ranked as one of the major social ...

Metro rail resumed operations on Sunday after remaining suspended for over a month. But Kazipara and Mirpur-10 stations, which were damaged during the recent unrest, will remain closed. The first train started from Uttara North Metro Station at 7:10am and the first train from Motijheel departed at 7:30am. The regular commuters of metro rail, especially the office commuters, were relieved ...

Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik, who was attacked and beaten by unruly people while being produced before a Sylhet court, has been admitted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital with critical injuries. Manik, a retired judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, was sent to the hospital by the authorities of Sylhet Central Jail this evening, said ...

Chief Adviser to the interim government Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus has urged the country’s people to come forward to addressing the ongoing devastating flood. “With the initiatives and encouragement of the youth, the country’s people should jump into addressing the flood together. We must tackle the flood unitedly,” he said after a meeting with the representatives of non-government organisations (NGOs) ...

A US campaign group has accused Boeing of concealing information about electrical problems on a plane that later crashed. The Foundation for Aviation Safety claimed the aircraft, which went down in Ethiopia in 2019, had suffered a number of issues, including an “uncommanded roll” at low altitude. The organisation said more than 1,000 planes currently flying could potentially be at ...

Icelandic supermarkets have been left in a pickle, after a viral TikTok trend saw an unprecedented surge in demand for cucumbers – leaving suppliers racing to keep up. It comes after social media influencers in the small Nordic country began sharing a salad recipe of grated cucumbers, sesame oil, garlic, rice vinegar and chilli oil. The recipe has been such ...