January 23, 2024

Nahida in ICC Women’s ODI team of the year

DHAKA, Bangladesh left-arm spinner Nahida Akter found a place in the ICC Women’s ODI Team of the Year for her stupendous performance in the last year. The Bangladesh spinner took 20 wickets in 11 matches in the year in ODIs, the second-highest for a…

Historic Mass Upsurge Day tomorrow

DHAKA, The historic ‘Mass Upsurge Day’, commemorating the 1969’s movement for autonomy from the then East Pakistan that eventually led to the Liberation War and the emergence of Bangladesh in 1971, will be observed tomorrow in a befitting manner. On…

Bangladesh reports zero Covid-19 death, 35 positive cases

DHAKA, Bangladesh today recorded zero Covid-19 death while it reported 35 coronavirus positive cases. “Bangladesh reported 8.62 percent Covid-19 positive cases as 406 samples were tested during the last 24 hours,” a daily statement of the Directora…

Obaidul Quader off to Singapore for health checkup

DHAKA, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader left Dhaka for Singapore this morning as part of routine health check- up. Quader also General Secretary of the ruling Awami League left the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 8:30 …

3 killed in Jhenaidah road accident

JHENAIDAH, Three people were killed and four others injured as a truck collided head-on with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on the Maheshpur-Khalishpur road in Balaipur area under Maheshpur upazila of the district today. The deceased were identified as Kas…

Measures to be taken to attract foreign tourists: Faruk

DHAKA, Civil aviation and tourism minister Muhammad Faruk Khan today said measures will be taken to attract more foreign tourists. “The number of local tourists has increased because of improved living-standard of people of the country and now we ha…

PM seeks more investments from Saudi Arabia

DHAKA, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought more investments from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) in Bangladesh to march ahead the measures taken by her government for socio-economic advancement of the countrymen. “Make more investment in Bangl…