Napoli are out of the Champions League after a 3-2 loss at home to Chelsea on Wednesday, with Joao Pedro scoring twice in the second half to seal the visitors a place in the last 16. Chelsea’s first away win of the campaign gives them a sixth-place finish in the league phase standings with 16 points, while Serie A champions ...

Tottenham Hotspur forgot their domestic woes to qualify for the Champions League knockout rounds with a comfortable 2-0 victory at already-eliminated Eintracht Frankfurt on Wednesday. Randal Kolo Muani put the London club ahead just after halftime from close range and Dominic Solanke sealed the win when he drove in his side’s second in the 77th minute. The win completed an ...

With gold hitting a new record in the local market, prices of the precious metal have reached a fresh high of Tk286,001 per bhori, breaking all previous records. Jewellers increased the price of each bhori gold by Tk16,213 due to a hike in the prices of pure gold in the international market. The decision was taken at a meeting of ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has said that the repatriation of more than one million Rohingya refugees to their homeland in Myanmar’s Rakhine State remains the only viable and sustainable solution to the crisis. He urged the UN refugee agency to continue its active engagement to facilitate their safe return. The Chief Adviser made the remarks late Wednesday when the ...

A plane crash in northeast Colombia on Wednesday killed all 15 people on board, including a local lawmaker, state-run airline Satena said. The Beechcraft 1900 twin-engined turboprop plane took off before noon from Cucuta, on the border with Venezuela, for a short flight to the town of Ocana, Satena said. Air traffic control lost contact with the plane 12 minutes ...

Md Kafi Khan : In the high-stakes landscape of Bangladeshi finance, a quiet revolution is underway. For years, the industry’s digital North Star was simple: traffic. We measured success by app downloads, monthly active users (MAU), and the sheer frequency of logins. But as we move deeper into 2026, the goalposts have shifted. The market is no longer satisfied with ...

US Ambassador in Dhaka Brent T Christensen paid a courtesy call on Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman on Thursday morning. The courtesy meeting between Jamaat Ameer and US Ambassador was held at 8:00am at the party’s Bashundhara office in Dhaka. The meeting was held in a highly cordial and warm atmosphere. The US ambassador was accompanied by senior officials ...

The Spanish government is about to kick off a mass regularisation of more than 500,000 irregular migrants. The Council of Ministers approved a Royal Decree on Tuesday creating a fast-track path to legal residence for foreign nationals who can prove at least five months of continuous stay in the country prior to the end of December 2025. In order to ...

Iran said that it maintains “complete control” over the land, underwater and airspace of the Strait of Hormuz amid fears of a possible US strike against Tehran. “Iran is not seeking war, but it is fully prepared,” Mohammad Akbarzadeh, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander, said in comments carried by the Fars News Agency. “If war breaks out, there ...

Candidates in the six parliamentary constituencies of Sylhet are significanty dependeing on donations and loans from expatriates and relatives to carry out their election campaigns in the 13th national election shcheduled for February 12, reveal their nomination papers and expenditure data. Upon being an expatriate-dominated region, Sylhet has many expatriate candidates naturally. When elections come, even those who are not ...