BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that they will hold their Saturday’s grand rally in front of the party’s Nayapaltan central office in a peaceful manner. If it is obstructed, the government will have to take full responsibility. Fakhrul made the statement in a press conference held at the party office on Friday morning ahead of Saturday’s ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has returned home after wrapping up her three-day official visit to Belgium. A commercial flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the premier and her entourage members, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 11:51am on Friday. On board her return flight, the prime minister exchanged pleasantries with the passengers going from one seat to another. She ...

“Leave the World Behind,” an acclaimed novel about ordinary people struggling to cope as a slow and mysterious disaster shuts down the world, felt topical when it was published during the unfurling pandemic of 2020. So the world premiere of its star-studded Netflix film adaptation at AFI Fest in Los Angeles this week, at a time when the world is ...

The business end of the ODI World Cup 2023 is approaching steadily. South Africa (SA) have been a dominant force thus far, bagging four wins in the five games they have played. Meanwhile, the Pakistan (PAK) players need to pull up their socks as they have lost three matches on the trot after starting their campaign with two consecutive wins. ...

Former Chinese premier Li Keqiang, a reform-minded bureaucrat once tipped as the country’s future leader only to be eclipsed by President Xi Jinping, died Friday. He was 68. He had a heart attack on Thursday and passed away in Shanghai just after midnight, state-run news agency Xinhua said. During his 10-year tenure as premier under Xi, Li cultivated an image ...

Sylhet Office : Sylhet City Corporation has announced a Tk 925.4 crore budget for fiscal 2023-24. Mayor Ariful Haque Choudhury announced the budget at a press conference at the city’s Arambagh yesterday. This is Ariful’s last budget as he did not participate in the recent city polls and the newly-elected mayor will take over next month. In the budget, SCC ...

Hamas on Thursday released a list of almost 7,000 names of Gazans it said had been killed in Israeli strikes after the US president cast doubt on its toll figures. The Palestinian Islamist group says that 7,028 people have now been killed in Gaza since its October 7 attacks which Israel says left 1,400 dead, mainly civilians. The Hamas list ...

With the death of two more people, Khawja Tower, a high rise building in Mohakhali’s Amtoli, fire death toll rose to three. The deceased were Rafiqul Islam, 63, Aklima Rahman, 33, and Hasna Ranu, 27. Rafiqul Islam was the engineer of a company housed at the fire-ravaged 13-storeyed building. He fell sick due to huge smoke inside the office after ...

Cricket World Cup standings after Thursday’s match (played, won, lost, tied, no result, points, net run rate):   India           5 5 0 0 0 10   1.353 South Africa    5 4 1 0 0  8   2.370 New Zealand     5 4 1 0 0  8   1.481 Australia       5 3 2 0 0  6   1.142 ———————————— Sri Lanka       5 2 3 0 0  ...

Three specialist doctors who came from the United States on Thursday conducted the surgical operation of the liver of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday night. They were accompanied by Dr FM Siddiqui, Dr AZM Zahid Hossain, Dr Abdullah Al Mamun and Dr Nuruddin Ahmed. The operation was going on at an operation theatre of Evercare Hospital at Gulshan in ...