There was a time when England players threw around phrases like “the more the better”, such was their confidence in the chase. But tasked with knocking off a world record 435 runs to stop Australia winning this Ashes series at the earliest opportunity, one suspects similar words were not uttered on Saturday. Instead, having picked up six cheap wickets first ...

Have you ever wondered why some people eat small meals to control their weight, still gain it, while others eat without any portion control and manage to stay lean? Dr Saurabh Sethi revealed the reason behind this phenomenon in a recent Instagram post. On 9 December, Dr Sethi, a gastroenterologist and hepatologist trained at AIIMS, Stanford, and Harvard Universities, highlighted ...

The Christmas Day lunch, as even the most inattentive viewer of Eastenders will have grasped, is an emotionally charged occasion with the potential to escalate into an Armageddon of insults more explosive than a shoddily made Christmas cracker. Far safer to remove what is possibly the biggest point of contention — the lunch itself — and allow someone else to ...

Two Bangladeshi youths were shot dead by Indian Khasis near Sylhet border on Friday, according to local administration, police and Border Guard Bangladesh officials. The incident occurred around 12:00 PM at Damdama border under Uttar Ranikai Union of Companiganj upazila in Sylhet. The victims were identified as Ashiqur Rahman, 19, son of Buran Uddin, and Moshaeed Ali, 22, son of ...

Dr Zubaida Rahman, wife of BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman, left Dhaka for London on Saturday morning, spending nearly two weeks by the side of party Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia. She departed around 8:48AM by a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. This flight will reach London’s Heathrow Airport directly via Sylhet. BNP Media ...

Retail sales dipped unexpectedly last month as cautious shoppers prevailed and Black Friday discounts failed to boost spending in the run-up to Christmas, official figures show. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the total volume of retail sales is estimated to have fallen by 0.1% in November. This follows a 0.9% drop in October, and was a surprise decline ...

The body of Inquilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi arrived in Dhaka on Friday evening, days after his death while undergoing treatment in Singapore, triggering widespread political unrest across the country. According to a statement from the Chief Adviser’s Press Wing, the Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight BG-585 carrying Hadi’s body landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 5:48 PM Bangladesh ...

BNP Chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia, who is currently undergoing treatment at Evercare hospital in Dhaka, is now in a stable condition, her personal physician Dr AZM Zahid Hossain said on Friday. Speaking to reporters in front of Evercare Hospital on Friday afternoon, Dr Zahid; also a member of BNP Standing Committee, said Khaleda Zia’s health has remained ...

There’s a story about a whisper network operating among New York’s rich and powerful, who are leveraging their connections to get their hands — and ears — on a revolutionary piece of tech. It’s an AI-powered hearing aid that uses an algorithm to filter and refine sound in real time. Those lucky enough to beta-test one were brought to tears ...

President Donald Trump signed a sweeping defense policy bill into law Thursday that signaled strong bipartisan support for Europe and defied the US leader’s increasingly hostile posture toward NATO and America’s closest allies. The annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), one the few remaining rituals of cross-party cooperation in Congress even as divisions sharpen elsewhere in Washington, sets out the ...