The 43rd annual general meeting (AGM) of Sylhet Gas Fields Limited, a gas and petroleum products producing company under Petrobangla, was held on December 18. The meeting took place at Petrocentre, the company’s Dhaka liaison office, according to a press release. The meeting was presided over by the chairman of the board of directors, Abul Mansur Md Faizullah, and attended ...

Myanmar’s dominant pro-military party is “winning a majority” in the first phase of junta-run elections, a party source told AFP on Monday, after democracy watchdogs warned the poll would entrench military rule. The armed forces snatched power in a 2021 coup, but on Sunday opened voting in a phased month-long election they pledge will return power to the people. The ...

The price of gold has reached an all-time high in the country, hitting over Tk 2.29 lakh per bhori (11.664 grammes). Jewellers have increased the price of the precious yellow metal by Tk 1,575 to Tk 2,29,431 following a hike in the pure gold price in the local market. The Standing Committee on Pricing and Price Monitoring of the Bangladesh ...

England pace spearhead Gus Atkinson was Monday ruled out of the fifth and final Ashes Test against Australia with a hamstring injury, their third fast bowler to head home early during the series. The Surrey right-armer hobbled off early on day two of the fourth Test in Melbourne clutching his left leg and took no further part. “Gus Atkinson has ...

The deadline for the submission of nomination papers in the upcoming national election sets to expire at 5PM on Monday (December 29). After the deadline, all nomination papers received by Assistant Returning Officers (AROs) must be forwarded immediately to the respective ROs along with the required security deposits. According to the EC schedule, scrutiny of nomination papers will be conducted ...

Pakistan High Commissioner to Bangladesh Imran Haider on Sunday paid a courtesy call on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna. During the meeting, both sides discussed ways to expand cooperation in trade, investment and aviation, as well as scaling up cultural, educational, and medical exchanges to further strengthen bilateral relations between the two South Asian ...

On a crisp Friday morning in early December, Abington Street in Northampton is starting to stir. Despite having lost high street stalwarts like Marks & Spencer, Moss Bros and H&M in recent years, it is drawing in locals for one end-of-week errand: banking. Along the pedestrianised road, customers are streaming in and out of HSBC, Barclays, Metro Bank and the ...

A leading surgeon behind a clinical trial of transplanting pig kidneys into living humans has said they could one day be superior to those from human donors. Dr Robert Montgomery, the director of NYU Langone’s Transplant Institute, said the first transplant of the trial had already been carried out, with another expected to take place in January. Six patients are ...

Former Newcastle United, Liverpool and England striker Andy Carroll is due to appear in court on Tuesday after he was charged with breaching a non-molestation order. Carroll, 36, who now plays for National League South side Dagenham and Redbridge, was arrested in April with the alleged offence said to have been committed a month earlier. The 36-year-old, who has nine ...

A south London food hall that is due to make way for new homes will remain open until late 2026, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS). Mercato Metropolitano, which has operated from a former paper-making factory in Elephant & Castle for nine years, is to be demolished after plans for the Borough Triangle development were approved by Southwark ...