Defending champions Canada take on Germany on Saturday in a bid to reach the semi-finals of the Olympic women’s football tournament after they made the knockouts despite a points deduction over a spying scandal. Four-time gold medallists the United States and World Cup holders Spain are also in action in the last eight. Canada’s hopes of repeating their run to ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ordered the release of all detained students in Quota Reform Movement. She made the announcement at a meeting held with the leaders of Peshajibi Samannay Parishad (Professional Coordination Council) at Ganabhaban on Saturday.  

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has cancelled the pension scheme proposed for the employees of the public universities, autonomous and government institutions. The decision came at a meeting with the central leaders of the Professional Coordination Council at Ganabhaban on Saturday, education ministry’s public relation officer MA Khayer confirmed.  

The students of Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology (RUET) are staging demonstration protesting killing and attack on their peaceful procession. They also demanded the government’s resignation. At about 10am on Saturday, the students of RUET took position in front of the entrance of the university on the Dhaka Rajshahi highway, chanting different slogans against government. Students from different schools ...

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina asked the party leaders to sit with the  coordinators of the Quota Reform Movement to calm the country’s situation. The party’s presidium member Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Joint General Secretaries Mahbubul Alam Hanif and AFM Bahauddin Nasim have been assigned the responsibility. The ruling Awami League held an emergency meeting at Ganabhaban on Friday night ...

US Vice President Kamala Harris’s late entry into the White House race has galvanized young Democrats, a group whose participation will be crucial if the party hopes to defeat Donald Trump in November. When President Joe Biden announced on July 21 — with two simple messages on X — that he was withdrawing from the race and endorsing Harris, 28-year-old ...

The Conservatives can win the next general election but need to “confront some hard truths”, Robert Jenrick has said as he launched his campaign to replace Rishi Sunak as the party’s leader. Addressing supporters in his Newark constituency, he said the party should reject “defeatism” but also needed to be “grounded in realism”. He argued that the principle reason the ...

The Anti-Discrimination Students’ Movement has announced nationwide demonstration for Saturday (August 3) and indefinite non-cooperation movement from Sunday in protest against killing attacking their peaceful procession. Asif Mahmud and Rifat Rashid, coordinator and assistant coordinator of the Anti-Discrimination Students’ Movement, announced the programme through Facebook posts and video messages at 8:00pm on Friday (August 2). They also called upon the ...

A police constable was killed and another 25 were injured during clashes between police and protesters in Khulna city on Friday afternoon. The deceased were identified as constable Suman Gharami. Md Mozammel Haque, Khulna Metropolitan Police Commissioner, confirmed the matter. Eyewitnesses said the clash started in front of Khulna University (KU) at around 3:00 PM when police tried to disperse ...

The police have allegedly set barriers to the mass procession brought out by the students, under the platform of Students Against Demonstration, in Sylhet. When the protesting students attempted to march forward pushing the barriers aside, the policemen dispersed them firing tear gas shells, shotgun bullets, and sound grenades. Some seven people were detained from the spot. The incident took ...