A US-owned capital venture fund and an Indian tycoon on Monday bid more than $1.6 billion dollars between them to set up two new teams in the Indian Premier League, the world’s richest cricket tournament, officials said. Sanjiv Goenka, whose RPSG con…
Spinner Mujeeb Ur Rahman took five wickets in Afghanistan’s record 130-run rout of Scotland in their opening Super 12s match of the Twenty20 World Cup on Monday. Chasing a daunting 191 for victory, Scotland were bowled out for 60 in 10.2 overs with f…
Talismanic all-rounder Ben Stokes has beenadded to the England squad for the tour of Australia later this year,delivering a huge boost in their bid to reclaim the Ashes. The 30-year-old said he is refreshed after taking time out from the gameboth for…
Prime suspects of Pirganj violence, SaikatMandal and Rabiul Islam, gave confessional statements under Section 164 ofthe Code of Criminal Procedure as they were produced before a court here lastnight. “They have given confessional statements separately…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has requestedall concerned departments to verify any recommendation or Demi-Official (DO)letter issued in the name of foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen before takingstep regarding any of those. Recently, two fake recom…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said SouthAsian nations should work to eliminate the curse of hunger, poverty andilliteracy and for the well-being of the people in the region. She said this while newly-appointed Pakistan High Commissioner toBangla…
Unvaccinated players will be allowed tocompete at the Australian Open but must complete 14 days in hotel quarantine,according to a leaked WTA email Monday, although a government officialinsisted the matter was not yet settled. The rules would also lik…
Nine more people have tested positive forCovid-19 in five districts of the division on Sunday, taking the caseload to98,865 since the pandemic began in March last year. However, the new positive figure is almost half compared to the previousday’s fig…
Bangladesh today reported 289 Covid-19 cases while the coronavirus claimed overnight five lives. “The country reported 1.39 percent Covid-19 positive cases as 20,773 samples were tested in the past 24 hours, ” Directorate General of Health Services (D…
The British government will provide anextra £6 billion to its National Health Service to tackle backlogs built upduring the pandemic, finance minister Rishi Sunak will announce in thisweek’s budget. All eyes will be on Sunak Wednesday as he outlines t…
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