Australia were 377 for six at tea on the third day of the fifth Ashes test at Sydney Cricket Ground on Tuesday, closing on England’s first-innings tally of 384. * Australia skipper Steve Smith was unbeaten on 65 at the break alongside Cameron Green, who was eight not out. * Travis Head earlier scored his third century of the series, ...

A section of media is attempting to defame individuals who were at the forefront of the mass uprising, said National Citizen Party (NCP) Convener Nahid Islam. Tahrima Jannat Surovi’s incident was part of that continued effort to malign such individuals. Nahid made this allegation while visiting residence of Tahrima, who was granted bail and released from jail on Monday night. ...

Supporters and activists of Inqilab Moncho have started their pre-announced ‘March for Insaaf’ from Shahbaghin the capital for their four-point demands, including justice for their slain leader Sharif Osman Hadi. The march started around 11:30AM on Tuesday, chanting different slogans like– Delhi Na Dhaka, Dhaka Dhaka; Rokto Bonyay, Veshe Jabe Onnay. The platform’s aim to mobilise public opinion demanding justice. ...

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-9) recovered four air guns along with ammunition from Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar district early Sunday. Acting on a tip-off, a RAB-9 operational team conducted a search in a bamboo grove inside a mahogany garden around 1:15 AM in the Kamudpur area under Alinagar union in the upazila. During the search, they found four air guns wrapped ...

A condolence message from Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on the death of BNP Chairperson and former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia was formally handed over to BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Monday. The message was delivered by the Chief Adviser’s Private Secretary, Shazeeb M Khairul Islam, at the BNP Chairperson’s office in Gulshan, according to party sources. In ...

A court has granted bail to a prominent July uprising activist Tahrima Jannat Surovi, who was arrested on allegations of blackmail, case trading and fraud. Anti-Discrimination Student Movement confirmed the development in a Facebook post on Monday evening, stating that Surovi’s bail had been granted. Earlier in the day, the Gazipur Metropolitan Magistrate Court had produced Surovi before the court ...

Sylhet Titans registered a comfortable six-wicket victory over Noakhali Express on Monday in Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), powered by a stunning five-wicket haul from left-arm spinner Nasum Ahmed at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Monday. Winning the toss, Noakhali Express opted to bat, with newly arrived Soumya Sarkar and Habibur Rahman Sohan opening the innings. However, their batting line-up ...

Sir Keir Starmer has said the UK should move towards closer alignment with EU markets “if it’s in our national interest”. The prime minister told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg it would be “better looking to the single market rather than the customs union for our further alignment”, in order to protect trade deals with India and the US. But he ...

The US military action in Venezuela breaches international law and the UK should make clear it is “unacceptable”, the chair of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee has said. Dame Emily Thornberry is the most senior Labour MP so far to criticise Donald Trump’s strikes on the country over the weekend, which saw President Nicolas Maduro and his wife seized. The ...

Six firefighters have been injured after two fire engines they were travelling in collided in central London, the London Fire Brigade (LFB) has said. The incident happened at about 22:17 GMT on Saturday at the junction of Farringdon Road on Clerkenwell Road. LFB assistant commissioner Pat Goulbourne said the fire engines were both responding to an incident in Islington which ...