The government plans to create a blue network using the canals in Dhaka that are still possible to be recovered. Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser of Ministry of Water Resources and the Ministry of environment, forest and climate change, told this while speaking at a workshop as a chief guest at the Forest Department in the capital on Saturday. The Centre ...

A total of 633 traffic cases were filed and around Tk 23 lakh in fine were imposed for violating traffic rules in Dhaka metropolitan area on Friday. Jahangir Kabir, assistant commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), in a media release on Saturday said the traffic division of DMP conducted the drives against breaching the traffic rules. Besides, 161 vehicles ...

Tropical Depression Helene brought life-threatening flooding on Friday to wide sections of the US Southeast, where at least 43 people have been killed by a storm that swamped neighborhoods, triggered mudslides, threatened dams and left more than 3.5 million homes and businesses without power. Before moving north through Georgia and into Tennessee and the Carolinas, Helene hit Florida’s Big Bend ...

Wrapping up very engaging stay and series of meetings with global leaders, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus left for Dhaka on Friday night. Prof Yunus and his delegation members left JFK International Airport at 9:30pm (NY time) and are scheduled to reach Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 2:15am (Dhaka time) on Sunday. The Chief Adviser attended around 40 big events ...

India on Friday lifted the ban on the export of non-basmati white rice with immediate effect after 14 months. The country imposed the ban in July last year to ensure the domestic supply of rice and keep prices under control. Besides, the country also reduced export duty on parboiled rice to 10 per cent from 20 per cent earlier as ...

Argentina’s soccer association (AFA) said on Friday that FIFA suspended goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez for two matches of South American World Cup qualifying in October. The decision rules out the 32-year-old from official games in the round-robin competition against Venezuela and Bolivia on Oct. 10 and 15, reports AP. AFA said in a statement that FIFA’s disciplinary commission sanctioned Martinez due ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Friday urged the international community to continue and deepen engagements with Bangladesh to help meet its people’s quest for democracy, rule of law, equality and prosperity so that it can emerge as a just and inclusive democratic society. “I call upon the international community to engage with ‘new Bangladesh’ anew that aims to realise ...

Shafiqur Rahman, Ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, has condemned Awami League, accusing it of commiting genocide asserting that such actions disqualify any party from participating in national politics. He made this statement while addressing a gathering at the Rukon Conference organised by Khulna Metropolitan Jamaat at the Al Faruq Society in Sonadanga on Friday. “Those who commit genocide have no right ...

Biman Bangladesh Airlines, the national flag carrier, marked International Tourism Day on Friday by welcoming passengers with flowers upon their arrival at Sylhet’s MAG Osmani International Airport. The special ceremony, led by Biman’s Sylhet District Manager MD Shahnewaz Mazumder and Airport Director Hafiz Ahmed, took place as Flight BG-601, carrying 74 passengers from Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, landed at ...

There are some people who can’t get enough when it comes to exercise — the ones who are up at the crack of dawn for a jog, who squeeze in a class during their lunch break and prioritize boot camps over brunch on the weekends. And then there are the rest of us. We know we need to exercise — ...