Hop Lun launches campaign for working parents
Global apparel company Hop Lun has recently introduced its new cross-market CSR initiative, 鈥楶lay It Forward鈥�, under the company鈥檚 #SheCan platform...
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HONOR Play10 now available at Tk 10,999
Global AI device ecosystem company HONOR has recently launched HONOR Play10 on the Bangladesh market...
Ridoy, Khoi Khoi win singles titles
Muhtasin Ahmed Ridoy and Khoi Khoi Marma won the men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 singles titles of the Federation Cup Table Tennis Championship, which concluded at the Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Indoor Stadium in the city on Monday...
Barnstorming Bayern face acid test at PSG
Bayern Munich鈥檚 trip to holders Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League on Tuesday is a test to determine where they stand among the European elite this season...
Alonso shaping new Real Madrid on Liverpool return
Real Madrid coach Xabi Alonso returns to Anfield to face his former side Liverpool in the Champions League on Tuesday after a nearly immaculate start to life in the Spanish capital...
BCB adds strict clauses for Dhaka leagues
Bangladesh Cricket Board on Monday endorsed a non-participation and withdrawal clause in the rules, regulations, and playing conditions of all leagues under the jurisdiction of the Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolis amid the call for a boycott from various clubs...
Habibur, bowlers guide Rajshahi to win
Habibur Rahman鈥檚 steady 62 led Rajshahi to a seven-wicket victory over Khulna at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on the third day of their second-round fixture of the ongoing National Cricket League on Monday...
Khamenei won鈥檛 cooperate with US while it backs Israel
Iran鈥檚 supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Tehran would only consider cooperation with the United States if it changed its policy in the region including supporting Israel...
Thousands evacuated as typhoon bears down on Philippines
Thousands were evacuated in coastal provinces of the Philippines on Monday, ahead of a typhoon due to make landfall in a region hit by some of the country鈥檚 deadliest storms...
Israeli strikes on south Lebanon kill two
Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon killed two people and wounded seven others on Monday, the Lebanese health ministry said, after Israel threatened to expand its attacks against Iran-backed Hezbollah...
Christian, Muslim Nigerians push back on threatened US strikes
Nigerians across the religious spectrum pushed back Monday on US president Donald Trump鈥檚 threats of military intervention over the killing of Christians in the country...
Tanzania president sworn in as opposition says hundreds killed in protests
Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan played down days of bloody protest as she was inaugurated on Monday, with an internet blackout still in place as the opposition says hundreds were killed...
Sole survivor of Air India crash has painful memories
The only survivor of June鈥檚 Air India crash has told UK media of the mental and physical anguish he has endured since surviving the deadly disaster in the Indian city of Ahmedabad...
10 women to compete for 12 seats among 237 nominations by BNP
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Monday nominated 10 women to compete for 12 seats among the 237 for which it announced candidates for the forthcoming Bangladesh national parliamentary elections.
The wolf and the lamb
JUST as George HW Bush 鈥榙iscovered鈥� drug cartels in Panama in 1989 and Ronald Reagan labelled Grenada a 鈥楽ovietCuban colony鈥� in 1983, president Donald Trump has again manufactured a myth 鈥� this time, 鈥榗ocaine factories鈥� in Venezuela...
When nature and humans turn against humanity
THE screams of Melissa are still echoing in the skies over Jamaica. With winds howling at nearly three hundred kilometres per hour, four-metre-high waves swallowing towns, and whole communities flattened into silence 鈥� it felt as if a colossal monster had risen from the sea to avenge its centuries of pain. Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm, was not just another...
Innovation is key to growth
THE 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt for explaining how innovation drives economic growth. Their work shows that progress is not only about having more people or more machines, it is about having better ideas and better ways of doing things. This message matters deeply for Bangladesh. For...
Teacher training should be an education policy priority
ONE of the most alarming crises in the education sector today is the systematic erosion in the percentage and number of trained teachers in secondary schools and madrassahs. This is occurring at a time when the number of students and the number of institutions are increasing every year. The government, however, tends to see the question of the declining number of...
National defence is not a sport
THE interim government鈥檚 decision to provide combat and shooting training to nearly nine thousand young people under a programme taken by the ministry of youth and sports and framed, in the language of the adviser to the ministry, as a move to 鈥榮trengthen national defence鈥� is a misleading initiative. The initiative rests on deeply questionable legal, political and...
ACC sues Salman F Rahman, 33 others over Tk 1,940cr crore embezzlement
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday filed five separate cases against 34 people, including the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 former private industry and investment adviser Salman F Rahman, on charges of embezzling Tk聽1,939.76 crore from...
DSCC gets new administrator
Md Mahmudul Hasan, director general of the Monitoring, Inspection and Evaluation Wing of the Local Government Division, has been appointed as the new administrator of Dhaka South City Corporation.
Shujan seeks permission to appeal against caretaker verdict
Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik, also known as Shujan, on Monday filed a petition with the Appellate Division seeking permission to appeal against a High Court verdict that had restored the election-time caretaker government system by declaring...
Haaland fires City up to second in Premier League
Erling Haaland scored twice to propel Manchester City up to second in the Premier League with a 3-1 win over Bournemouth on Sunday.
Barca beat Elche to recover from Clasico loss
Lamine Yamal and Marcus Rashford struck for Barcelona as they earned a 3-1 win over Elche in La Liga on Sunday to bounce back from last weekend's Clasico defeat.
BNP announces probable candidates for 237 seats
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Monday announced a list of its potential candidates for 237 constituencies in the upcoming 13th Jatiya Sangsad elections announced to be held in the first half of February 2026.
Trent's return with Real reminds Liverpool of what they are missing
Trent Alexander-Arnold returns to Liverpool on Tuesday with both player and his boyhood club struggling to adapt after his emotional departure for Real Madrid.
Shafali Verma: India's World Cup hero who disguised herself as boy
Shafali Verma was initially dropped from India's Women's World Cup squad but the opener returned as an injury replacement to star in the title win and etch her name in history.
'Just the beginning' as India lift first Women's World Cup
India captain Harmanpreet Kaur said her team's breakthrough Women's World Cup triumph on Sunday was 鈥榡ust the beginning鈥� as they beat South Africa by 52 runs to win the tournament for the first time.
鈥楩aulty design, contractor鈥檚 negligence鈥� behind recent metro rail accident: DMTCL MD
Faulty design and negligence by the contractor and consulting firms may had caused the recent Metro route鈥檚 bearing pad fall incident that claimed the life of a pedestrian, said Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited managing director Faruque Ahmed on Monday.
Bangladesh may face 10 coldwaves this winter: Met Office
Bangladesh Meteorological Department has forecast that at least 10 coldwaves including three sever may sweep different regions of the country between November and January...
