Erling Haaland’s hat trick, including two goals in the first five minutes, led Manchester City over Chelsea 4-2 on Saturday in an English club football friendly at Columbus, Ohio. Reigning Premier League champion City scored goals 54 seconds apart in the first half and 71 seconds apart in the second half to dominate the fixture, part of a US pre-season ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held a view-exchange meeting with Vice-Chancellors (VCs) of the public and private universities, college principals and teachers at Ganabhaban on Saturday night. The meeting was held for nearly three hours from 7:30pm to 10:20pm, PM’s Deputy Press Secretray MM Emrul Kayas told BSS. During the meeting, they discussed the overall situation created following the anti-quota movement ...

Police fired sound grenades, rubber bullets and tear shells to disperse protesters during a clash in Sylhet on Saturday. No casualties, however, were reported so far. Witnesses said protesting students gathered in front of the Shaheed Minar in Chawhatta area of the city at 12pm as part of the scheduled programme announced by the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement. They blocked the ...

  Rioters who attacked police and property following the fatal stabbing of three girls in Southport have been accused of promoting an “extreme agenda”. Northumbria’s police and crime commissioner described violence in Sunderland, which left four police officers hospitalised, as sickening. A clean-up operation is under way in the city after a night of violence saw missiles thrown at riot ...

As an average Dhakaite, what does it mean to judge meat lovers? With the rise of trendy diets, technicalities, and jargon from the “plant-based” movement, it’s enough to send an average foodie into a spiral of culinary confusion. This is why most veteran meat lovers, who relish their biriyani and beef bhuna, remain unfazed by such diet wars. Unless, of ...

Climate change is contributing to the global rise of Lyme disease. But many physicians are struggling to recognise its symptoms. Ticks are blood sucking parasites and second only to mosquitos when it comes to transmitting diseases to humans. But when that bite happens, along with the potential risk of infection and serious illness, you may not even feel it. These ...

Stock markets were hit by a global sell-off on Friday as weak US jobs growth stoked fears of a sudden downturn in the world’s largest economy. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index dropped by more than 2.4%, dragged lower by Intel and Amazon, after the companies reported disappointing results. Official data showed employers added 114,000 jobs in July, far fewer than expected, ...

Thousands of young people in the UK were tricked into paying money for non-existent Premier League football tickets last season, according to an estimate by Lloyds Bank. It said that football ticketing fraud against its customers was up by around a third compared with the previous season, and warned fans to be on their guard. Banking industry group UK Finance ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday called upon the agitating students to sit with her at her official Ganabhaban residence to put an end to violence centering the Quota Reform Movement. “The door of Ganabhaban is open. I want to sit with the agitating students of the movement and listen to them. I want no conflict,” she said. The prime ...

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday scrapped a plea agreement with 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, just two days after the announcement of a deal that reportedly would have taken the death penalty off the table, reports AFP. Agreements with Mohammed and two alleged accomplices announced Wednesday had appeared to have moved their long-running cases toward resolution — but ...