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Dhaka  – Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) will hold the much-awaited Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Saturday at Sarah Resort in Gazipur. Read More »

Dhaka, Nov 15- Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan on Friday said it is suspicious how fire from the locomotive spread to air-conditioned compartments immediately after the accident. The authorities are investigating whether there was an act of sabotage, he said after visiting Ullapara Railway Station. Read More »

Dhaka — The sixth and final round of the National Cricket League (NCL), the most prestigious first-class cricket event of Bangladesh, will start on Saturday (November 16). Read More »

Khulna Correspondent Classes of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) resume on November 17 after a 15-day shut down, said a KUET press release last night. Read More »

Oscar-winning actress Mo’Nique on Thursday filed a pay discrimination lawsuit against Netflix, alleging the streaming giant offered her less money than it did to white and male performers because she is a black woman. Read More »

Mayank Agarwal smashed his second double-ton in just seven Tests he played and helped India extend the lead to 343 at the end of day-2 of Indore Test against Bangladesh with four wickets in hand. Read More »

Egyptian President Abel Fattah al-Sisi received on Friday a phone call from German Chancellor Angela Merkel on means of tackling the Libyan crisis, the presidency office said. Read More »

A rickshaw puller set an example of honesty by returning Tk 20 lakh to its owner after finding it in Satmatha area of the town on Friday. Read More »

Police rescued a baby boy from a house at Latifpur Colony in the district town on Thursday, twenty four hours after the boy had been stolen by an unidentified woman from Bogura Shahee ZiaurRahman Medical College Hospital. Read More »

BNP on Friday asked the Home Minister why the government is not conducting drives against onion syndicates as prices of the item – a common ingredient in Bangladeshi cooking – shoot out beyond people’s buying capacity. Read More »

A resolution on situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar has been adopted at the third committee of the 74th UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. Read More »

The cyclone Bulbul that wreaked havoc in the country’s coastal districts in the early hours of Sunday damaged 4,589 trees, including Sundari, in the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest and a Unesco world heritage site. Read More »

Another fatal train crash could have been Friday’s news headline, but this time the lucky passengers of ‘Chattrola Express’ were saved as two young men took quick action after a truck got stuck at Murapara level-crossing in Burichang upazila here on Thursday. Read More »

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave for Dubai on Saturday evening on a four-day official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to attend the Dubai Air Show 2019. Read More »

Twelve years ago, another much stronger cyclone, ‘Sidr’, took a similar path to ‘Bulbul’ that ripped through the coastal districts, including Bagerhat. Read More »

Officials in Cambodia have ordered that elephants that serve as tourist attractions at the country’s famed Angkor temple complex be moved to a new home in a suitable jungle area. Read More »

Dhaka, Nov 14 (UNB)- Bangladesh has been enlisted as the highest bribery threat risk bearing country in South-Asia by Trace, a globally recognised anti-bribery business association based in the United States. Read More »

Taylor Swift said Thursday that she may not perform at the American Music Awards and may have to put other projects including a forthcoming Netflix documentary on hold because the men who own her old recordings won’t allow her to play her songs. Read More »

Dhaka, Nov 14 (UNB)- There is perhaps no debate that folk songs are one of the most vital cornerstones of Bengali music. Similarly every nation in the world has its own folk heritage, each different and unique on the basis of history, geography and experience. Read More »

Oman beat Bangladesh by 4-1 goals in the FIFA World Cup 2022 and AFC Asia Cup 2023 of the joint qualification round for at the Seeb Sports Stadium in Al Seeb city of Oman on Thursday. Read More »

Dhaka, Nov 15 – The Liberation War Museum is holding an international conference on Bangladesh Genocide and Justice along with an exhibition titled ‘Quilt of Memory and Hope’ from 14-16 November at the museum venue in Agargaon, Dhaka. Read More »

Dhaka, Nov 15 – Amazon is protesting the Pentagon’s decision to award a $10 billion cloud-computing contract to Microsoft, citing “unmistakable bias” in the process. Read More »

Danielle Nierenberg The region of Appalachia, which stretches through a dozen states in the eastern U.S., is home to unique agricultural products and food cultures. Food Tank recently joined The Crop Trust in Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky to meet the people working hard to preserve the region’s agricultural diversity Read More »

by Colin Roche on 14th November 2019 @ColinRoche The fossil-fuel industry has been revealed to have invested vast resources in lobbying EU institutions. Greta Thunberg and her fellow school-strikers’ message is resonating across the world—a world that is ready to hear it. Young people and their allies are forcing those in power to face some uncomfortable truths about political inaction ... Read More »

Dhaka, November 14 – The High Court (HC) on Thursday again ordered the government to rename within 90 days streets and installations named after anti-liberation persons across the country. Read More »

Dhaka, Nov 14 – The High Court on Thursday observed that the success of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) will fade if it fails to debunk the mystery behind the murder of journalist couple Sagar and Runi. Read More »