Agency : The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has announced the itinerary for the five-match T20I series against Zimbabwe ahead of...
Day: March 17, 2024
Agency : China’s top-ranked mixed doubles pair Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha reasserted their dominance as they claimed their third...
Staff Reporter : The upcoming budget for 2024-25 should focus on bringing stability to the country’s micro-economy as the overall...
BBC : Like millions of other Ukrainians, in the early weeks of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Nataliia (not her...
Al Jazeera : An armed group attacked a military post in northwestern Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan using a vehicle laden with explosives as well as suicide bombs, killing seven security force members, Pakistan’s military said. Troops responding to the attack on Saturday in North Waziristan, a district in the restive province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killed six attackers, some of who were wearing suicide vests, according to the military statement. While the military’s media wing did not say who...
The series was greenlit on the sidelines of an International Cricket Council meeting in Dubai, according to Pakistan’s board. International cricket only fully returned to Pakistan in 2020, following attacks on the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore in 2009. Pakistan was stripped of its right to co-host the World Cup two years later, with security concerns lingering in the aftermath of those attacks. The country last hosted a tri-series in 2004, which involved Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. Newly elected...
City Desk : Detectives in a drive arrested three associates of a ‘Chinese syndicate’ in connection with fraud after opening sites of gambling, product selling and marketing, from different parts of the capital on Friday. The arrestees were identified as Ratul, Raju and Mamun, reports UNB. Chief of DB police and also the Additional Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Harun-or-Rashid disclosed the information while speaking at a press briefing held at DB office on Saturday. When briefing, the DB chief...
Reuters : A Hong Kong court on Saturday sentenced 12 people to jail terms from more than four years to nearly seven years in a high-profile rioting case linked to the storming of the city legislature during a pro-democracy protest in 2019. The incident was a pivotal moment in the months-long protests that embroiled the China-ruled city in the boldest populist uprising against Chinese Communist Party rule since the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing. Protesters broke into Hong Kong’s...
CNN : Do you know your Gearóid from your Gobnait? Your Fearghal from your Muirgheal? To the untrained eye, Irish...
BSS : Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) predicted that rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at one or two places in Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna and Barishal divisions in the next 24 hours from 9am on Saturday. “Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky elsewhere over the country,” a BMD bulletin said. Day and night temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country, it added. Country’s maximum temperature on Friday was recorded 36.0...
Sylhet Bureau : The sale and purchase of land in Bianibazar sub-registry office has decreased alarmingly. Deeds are registered here only two days a week. However, sources have confirmed that it is not more than 50 in the entire month. Deed writers are also worried about the decrease in the rate of deed registry in the upazila since the last two months. The local deed writers said that due to the abnormal increase in tax at the source of the...