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Madrid (AP/UNB) — A 16-year-old forward born in Guinea-Bissau has become the next promising soccer star in Spain. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 17 – FIFA President Gianni Infantino has insisted that football remains the number one sport in Bangladesh, and is hopeful of a bright future for ‘the beautiful game’ in the country that matches up to its enormous popularity. Read More »

Dhaka – Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) Football runners-up Dhaka Abahani Limited have surprisingly withdrawn from the ensuing Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup Football Tournament in the dying moment. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 17 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday unveiled the cover of an 11-volume compilation of book titled “Ninth Jatiya Sangsad: Prime Minister’s Question-Answer” at her office here. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 17 – Highlighting the negative effects of genetically modified (GM) food on human body, speakers at a convention on Thursday urged the government and other stakeholders to stop the commercial production of GM golden rice being marketed as an ‘healthier alternative’ to regular rice. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 17 – Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Thursday said its members were forced to fire back in self-defence after being attacked by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along the Rajshahi border on Thursday that led to the death of a BSF man. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 17 (UNB) – Former leaders of the Dhaka University Central Students Union (Ducsu) on Thursday voiced a strong opposition against imposing any ban on student politics, and urged the government to quit paving the path for ‘restoration’ of democracy and people’s rights. Read More »

Lahore, Oct 17 (AP/UNB) — Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate are touring Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, where they will visit a cancer hospital previously visited by William’s mother, the late Princess Diana. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 17 (UNB) — A muscle strain on the right side of the rib forced Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal out of the second round of the National Cricket League (NCL). Read More »

Beijing, Oct 17 (AP/UNB) — China appealed to Washington for a quick end to their tariff war but gave no indication Thursday what more Beijing might want before it carries out what President Donald Trump says is a promise to buy up to $50 billion of American farm goods. Read More »

Brussels, Oct 17 (AP/UNB) — Britain and the European Union said Thursday that they have struck an outline Brexit deal after days of intense see-saw negotiations — though it must still be formally approved by the bloc and ratified by the European and U.K. Parliaments. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 17 (UNB) – Saudi Arabia on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bangladesh to set up a 3,600 MW LNG-based power plant. Read More »

The new head of Alaska’s Iditarod plans to meet with a leader of an animal welfare group that’s devoted to ending the world’s most famous sled dog race, which it sees as a cruel, deadly event for its canine participants. Read More »

Drawing on his own Jewish heritage and experiences growing up surrounded by prejudice, writer-director-actor Taika Waititi was excited to make a movie against hate through a satire of the Nazi culture at the height of WWII, until he saw himself dressed as Adolf Hitler for the first time. Read More »

Kashmir’s apple orchards, a backbone of the economy that supports nearly half the people living there, are deserted with fruit rotting on the trees at a time when they should be bustling with harvesters. Read More »

Pakistan’s foreign minister says Iran and Saudi Arabia have indicated a willingness to pursue diplomacy to end their disputes after Pakistan’s prime minister traveled to both countries to try and ease tensions. Read More »

Three policemen were suspended on Wednesday night for transporting mother Hilsa defying a government ban. Read More »

The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested three suspected members of banned militant group ‘Neo JMB’ from Gabtoli area on Wednesday night. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 16 (UNB)- Banglalink, has expanded its strong 4G network across the country to provide customers with seamless connectivity and quality digital services. Along with the upgrading of nearly 1000 sites to 4G, Banglalink has expanded its coverage to another 400 locations. Read More »

President Donald Trump has said Turkey’s incursion into Syria is “not our border”, and called the former US allies the Kurds “no angels”. The US is facing intense criticism for withdrawing its forces from Syria, which some say gave Turkey the green light to launch a cross-border offensive against Kurdish-led forces. Read More »

Narail, Oct 17 (UNB) – A seven-year-old boy was found dead at a water body at Singa village in Lohagara upazila on Wednesday night. Read More »

Rangpur, Oct 16 (UNB) – An elderly man is said to have killed himself at a police outpost in Pirganj Upazila here on Wednesday. Responding the incident, five policemen was withdrawn to the district police lines. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 16 (UNB) – Jatiya Oikyafront, led by Dr Kamal Hossain, on Wednesday decided to hold a public rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in the city on October 22, protesting the murder of Buet student Abrar Fahad. Read More »

Changsha, Oct. 16 (Xinhua/UNB) — A Chinese company unveiled a series of sanitation robots Tuesday in the city of Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province. Read More »

Boxer Patrick Day has died aged 27 – four days after suffering a brain injury in a fight against Charles Conwell. The American was put into a coma on Saturday after he was knocked out in the 10th round of his super welterweight bout in Chicago. Read More »

Dubai, Oct 17 (AP/UNB) — The energy-rich nation of Qatar is pledging to fully eliminate a labor system that ties foreign workers to their employer and requires them to have their company’s permission to leave the country. Read More »

Los Angeles – The crowd cheered as Emily Zamourka took the stage.”I didn’t have much time to practice,” she confided in an audience gathered to celebrate the designation of Los Angeles’ new Little Italy on Saturday. “So I’m just gonna sing the same song I sang on the subway…That ok with you?” Zamourka launched into Italian composer Giacomo Puccini’s aria, ... Read More »

By Jonathan Cook If there is an upside to Brexit, it is this: it has made it increasingly hard to present Jeremy Corbyn, contrary to everything the corporate media has been telling us for the past four years, as anything but a political moderate. In truth, he is one of the few moderates left in British – or maybe that ... Read More »

KHULNA – Climate vulnerable households in the country’s costal region are showing interest in adopting soilless hydroponic farming system to grow vegetables to meet their nutritional demand. “We have already introduced the hydroponic agriculture in our locality as arable land is not adequate here to cultivate vegetables through conventional farming…salinity also affects vegetable farming here,” Ripon Kumar Mondal, chairman of ... Read More »

Geneva, Oct (Kanaga Raja) – The medical humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has launched a global campaign on 10 October that calls on pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to lower the price of its life-saving anti-tuberculosis (TB) drug bedaquiline to no more than US$1 per day for everyone who needs it. Read More »