A BRTC staff bus of Agrani Bank was set on fire in the capital’s Khilgaon area on Wednesday morning, when the opposition parties’ 48-hour blockade for the 10th phase is underway. Receiving information, two fire-fighting units went to Khilgaon Taltola area. But before their reaching, locals managed to douse the fire, said Fire Service Headquarters acting official (media cell) Md ...

Seventeen people, including a Kenyan national, died when a passenger bus careered off a road on a “killer curve” and plunged down a mountain in the central Philippines, officials said Wednesday. The bus was travelling in Hamtic municipality in Antique province when the crash happened Tuesday afternoon, provincial disaster agency head Roderick Train told AFP. Four Kenyan nationals were among ...

New Zealand’s spinners ran circles around Bangladesh’s batsmen and bowled out them for 172 in the final session of the first day of the second Test at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka Wednesday. The hosts went into the final session with just two wickets in hand and it didn’t take long for the visitors to wrap up the ...

A total of 156 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been deployed across the country to maintain law and order as the latest 48-hour countrywide blockade of road, rail and waterways called by the BNP and like-minded opposition parties is underway. Shariful Islam, public relations officer (PRO) at BGB headquarters, shared the information on Wednesday morning. Along with the ...

Bangladesh have won the toss and chose to bat first in the Dhaka Test against New Zealand. Bangladesh fielded an unchanged XI in this match, maintaining the lineup from the previous Test in Sylhet. In the first Test, Bangladesh secured a victory by 150 runs, propelled by a second-innings century from Najmul Hossain Shanto, who leads Bangladesh in this series ...

Election Commissioner Md Alamgir has said that army will be deployed during the upcoming national parliamentary election to ensure security. Besides, he said there is no foreign pressure on the Election Commission regarding the national election. “They (foreigners) wanted to know what steps we have taken to ensure a peaceful, fair, and free election,” he told reporters after holding an ...

Britain signed a new treaty with Rwanda on Tuesday which it said would overcome a court decision blocking its plan to deport asylum seekers to the East African country, a ruling that dealt a huge blow to the government’s immigration policy. The Rwanda scheme is at the centre of the government’s strategy to stop illegal migration and is being watched ...

Campaigners warn that the government will be “on the wrong side of history” if it rejects a new compensation scheme for NHS infected blood scandal victims. Thousands died after being treated with contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s. MPs backed plans to set up a new compensation scheme, following a rebellion on Monday by Tory MPs. The Haemophilia ...

Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD-Inu) president Hasanul Huq Inu has said that the Awami League led 14-party alliance has decided to contest in the 12th parliamentary elections with AL’s election symbol ‘Boat’. The decision was taken at a meeting of the 14-party alliance meeting held at its coordinator and spokesperson Amir Hossain Amu’s Eskaton residence in the city Tuesday afternoon. Inu ...

Teenagers’ mathematics and reading skills are in an unprecedented decline across dozens of countries and COVID school closures are only partly to be blamed, the OECD said on Tuesday in its latest survey of global learning standards. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said it had seen some of the steepest drops in performance since 2000 when it ...