A stunning 85th-minute equalizer from Eduard Bello earned Venezuela a rare draw at Brazil while world champions Argentina made it three wins out of three in South American World Cup qualifying with a hard-earned 1-0 win over a determined Paraguay on Thursday. Darwin Nunez struck a stoppage time penalty as Uruguay fought back for a 2-2 draw with Colombia in ...

Mentioning various measures of the government to address macroeconomic challenges, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has observed that Bangladesh economy is on the right track. “I think, the economy is on right track in terms of meeting the objective of programme, getting inflation under control and addressing macroeconomic challenges given in difficult global environment,” IMF director for the Asia and ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said, “Saturn’s effect has fallen on the economy of the country. due to this reason, the country’s economy has not been able to stand erect.” “Since the Awami League government grabbed power in 2009, the country’s economy has fallen into a terrible state of anarchy. At present, inflation, declining foreign exchange reserves, ...

Job seekers staged demonstration in front of different centres in the capital protesting postponement of today’s scheduled recruitment examination for two posts of Department of Women Affairs without announcement. Following the protest, vehicular movement on those streets were suspended as the protesters were on the streets till 11:15am. Around 11:30am, the authorities gave a notice of the postponement of the ...

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said BNP’s publicity secretary Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie was not tortured in police custody and he made false allegation to attract the attention of the court. The minister told this while replying to questions from media at ‘Sharat Utsab’ (autumn festival) organised by Satyen Sen Shilpi Gosthi at the Bakultala of fine arts faculty ...

Bangladesh scored 245 with the half-century of Mushfiqur Rahim after another top-order collapse in the 11th game of the World Cup at M Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Friday. Liton Das, Tanzid Hasan Tamim, Mehedi Hasan Miraz and Najmul Hossain Shanto were back at the hut after just 12.1 overs with only 56 runs on the board after the Kiwis ...

Visiting joint pre-election assessment mission is scheduled to visit Awami League’s Dhanmondi political office in the capital on Friday afternoon. The party deputy office secretary Sayem Khan said this to media, adding that, they are busy in cleaning the office to receive them. Earlier on October 9, AL met with the six-member delegation from the International Republican Institute (IRI) and ...

Singapore’s economy grew faster than expected in the third quarter, preliminary government estimates showed Friday, as construction and services made up for a continued slump in manufacturing. Gross domestic product expanded 0.7 percent year-on-year in the three months ending September, beating forecasts of around 0.4 percent, and extending the 0.5 percent growth in the previous quarter, the trade ministry said. ...

The United Nations on Thursday issued an emergency appeal for $294 million to address “the most urgent needs” in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, where more than 400,000 Palestinians have fled their homes in recent days. The funds would be used to help more than 1.2 million people, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said, ...

South Africa sealed a huge victory by 134 runs against Australia in the 10th game of the World Cup at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow on Thursday. A collective bowling craft from the Proteas propel to bowl the five-time world champions out for 177 runs while defending 311 runs. In replying to the challenging ...