Bangladeshi boys make improvement in daily activities: WHO

A recent WHO study found that Bangladeshi boys, aged between 11 and 17 years, made improvement in their daily activities. It noted that countries showing the most improvement in activity levels...

Woman burnt alive at locked house

A garment worker went to mosque to perform prayer locking house door when his wife was in but coming back he witnessed a devastated fire there that claimed her life. Shocked Sumon Mia tried much to unlock the door to save his wife Sompa Akter, 22 but his all efforts went vain due to massiveness of the blaze. Later, fire fighters rushed there and put out the fire but Sompa was found dead...

ICC fears ‘state policy’ to attack Rohingyas: Prosecutor

International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has said the ICC judges feared that Myanmar may have ‘state policy’ to attack its minority Rohingya population in Rakhine. The statement came following the approval of ICC to commence an investigation into crimes committed against Rohingyas...

Bus crash kills 12 in western India

At least 12 people, including one child and five women, died and 10 others injured in a road mishap in India's western state of Rajasthan on Saturday, a local police officer said...

Rohingya youth hacked dead in Teknaf

PM seeks India’s help for dev of cricket

Cricket is the most popular game in Bangladesh as it’s in India. We’ve put in much efforts to improve the game. Hope, India would continue to help Bangladesh develop its cricket,” Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said while addressing a cultural programme at Eden Gardens in Kolkata...

Argentine health chief quits in abortion fight

Argentina’s health secretary resigned on Friday after a protocol he signed the day before, aimed at making abortion more available, was revoked by conservative President Mauricio Macri, less than a month before he is to leave office. “Unfortunately, the repeal of the protocol forces me to resign my position as the nation’s secretary of health,” Adolfo Rubinstein said...

Pakistan set 302-run target for Bangladesh

Pakistan set a target of 302 runs for Bangladesh in the final match of PRAN Frooto Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2019 at Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Saturday...

PM returns home from Kolkata

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home from Kolkata on Friday night, wrapping up her short visit to the West Bengal’s capital to inaugurate the historic day-night Test match between Bangladesh and India at the Eden Gardens. She reached Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) at 12:00am (BST)...

Kolkata Test: India take charge straightway

India took charge of the second Test of the series straightway at the packed Eden Gardens on Friday after bowling out Bangladesh for 106 in 30.3 overs on the first day of the pink-ball Test...

West Bengal keen to import bicycles from Bangladesh, Mamata tells PM

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banarjee on Friday showed interest to import bicycles from Bangladesh for mutual benefits. After the meeting, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen briefed reporters...

Bangladesh suffer batting collapse in first day-night Test

Bangladesh suffered batting collapse once again as they lost four wickets just in 26 runs in their first day-night Test against India at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on November 22. Mominul Haque, the Bangladesh captain, won the toss and opted to bat first. But the Bangladeshi top-order batsmen failed to prove their mettle to bat against pink balls as they lost four wickets in just 26 runs...

Fatal road crash in Munshiganj leaves 8 dead

Within a few weeks of enforcement of a new Transport Act to bring discipline on roads and highways, a fatal road crash in Sologhar area of Sreenagar upazila of Munshiganj claimed lives of eight people on Friday. The deceased included two children and two women but their identities could not be known yet...

Villain to transport workers, real hero to people

Noted actor Ilias Kanchan's relentless road safety movement for long 26 years though has turned him into a villain, sometimes, to the transport owners and workers but simaltenously he is the real hero to the country people who always support him. Zahanara Begum, wife of Ilias Kanchan, met her tragic end in a fatal road accident in 1993. Wife's death left the road safety campaigner heartbroken...

Bangladesh bat first in historic day-night Test against India

Bangladesh won the toss in their first pink-ball Test against India at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata and opted to bat first. The Tigers overlooked Taijul Islam and Mehidy Hasan Miraz to pave the way for Nayeem Hasan and Al Amin Hossain. Bangladesh went with a three-man pace attack in this game.

Hasina, Mamata open historic day-night Test match at Eden Gardens

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee on Friday rang the ceremonial bell for the opening of the historic day-night Test match between Bangladesh and India at the Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata...

PM arrives in Kolkata to watch day-night Test match

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in Kolkata of India on Friday morning to watch the second Test match of a two-match Test series between Bangladesh and India that will begin at Eden Gardens on Friday. The Prime Minister was received by president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Sourav Ganguly and others at the airport...

PM flies to Kolkata to watch day-night Test match

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka for Kolkata on Friday morning to watch the second Test match of a two-match Test series between Bangladesh and India that will begin at Eden Gardens in Kolkata today. A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage departed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) at 10:15am.

More than 80% of adolescents not active enough

Bikers storm hospital to get baby's body