Cristiano Ronaldo’s former teammate, Brazil winger Douglas Costa, has signed a two-year deal to play in Australia with Sydney FC, the A-League side said Monday. The acquisition of the 33-year-old, who won three Italian Serie A titles for Juventus where he played alongside Ronaldo, is a coup for his new club before the Australian season kicks off in October, reports ...

Coordinator Hasnat Abdullah was critically injured after clashes broke out between students and Ansar personnel near the Secretariat in the capital on Sunday night. He is currently receiving treatment at the emergency department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). Eye witness said at least 40 people were injured during a chase and counter-chase between the students and the ansar members. ...

Janmashtami, one of the major festivals of the Hindu community commemorating the birth of Lord Sri Krishna, is being celebrated countrywide on Monday with due religious fervour and gaiety. According to Hindu mythology, Lord Vishnu incarnated in this world as Sri Krishna in the prison of Raja Kangsa on this day — the eighth day of the dark fortnight in ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said the ousted prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, is trying to create confusion among the countrymen by staying in India. “The works of building new Bangladesh have been started after fleeing the ousted prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on August 5 through student-people movement. Works are going on to build a real humanitarian Bangladesh by ensuring justice and ...

Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus has said a free, fair and participatory election will be held in the country after necessary reforms to administration, judiciary, the Election Commission (EC), electoral system and law-order sector. “A free, fair and participatory election will be held after necessary reforms to administration, judiciary, the Election Commission, electoral system, law-order sector and free flow ...

Finance Adviser Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed urged investors from the United States to invest more in Bangladesh’s agriculture, energy, climate change-related and other sectors. He made this call to the US while talking with reporters after a meeting with Helen LaFave, Chargé D’affaires of the US Embassy, Dhaka at the Bangladesh Secretariat on Sunday (August 25), reports UNB. “The US is ...

A Nigerian professor who alerted the world to the re-emergence of mpox in his home country has warned that experts are working “blind” on the viral disease’s latest surge in Africa because of a lack of adequate surveillance systems. Dimie Ogoina, chair of the World Health Organization’s emergency committee of independent experts on mpox, said case numbers in an outbreak ...

Sir Keir Starmer is set to warn that “things will get worse” in the UK before they get better. In a speech on Tuesday, the prime minister is likely to say there are no quick fixes to remedy what he will call the “rubble and ruin” left by the Conservatives. He will also continue to argue that the last government ...

Steel pans heralded the return of one the largest annual street parties in the world this weekend. Held in west London, about one million people are expected to attend this year’s Notting Hill Carnival, which runs across Sunday and Monday. The party got started on Saturday night with a steel band competition and continues across Sunday and Monday. The celebration ...

The waste food going to landfills is an invisible but important part of greenhouse gas emissions. Could discarded scraps be turned into new food instead? In a two-storey building on the harbour at Refshaleøen, Copenhagen, there is chocolate being tempered in the kitchen; upstairs, plates of tacos and protein bars are being served. This isn’t the opening of the latest ...