Dependable centre-back Tapu Barman has been offered to play in the Indian Super League’s (ISL) for NorthEast United FC, which finished third among 11 teams in India’s top-flight football last season. However, the Bangladesh national team defender is seemingly in hesitation over the offer.

A goalkeeper in the Northern Ireland league was sent off Saturday for hitting one of his own players.

The trophy and logo of the DNCC Mayor Cup was unveiled in a colourful programme at the Hotel InterContinental in Dhaka on Saturday evening.

Protests denouncing the communal attacks on Hindu temples, idols and properties during the Durga Puja celebrations gained momentum as the call for punishing the perpetrators got louder yesterday.

The attacks on religious minorities, their temples, houses and businesses are parts of a blueprint to force them to leave the country, said Rana Dasgupta, general secretary of Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Oikya Parishad.

The poor, pummelled the most by the pandemic, just can’t catch a break, it seems.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged all to stop wasting food as many countries in the world are going to face a famine-like situation.

A social system underestimating the value of teaching harmony; an inequitable education system that does not economically

The New York Times today reported, “From a disorganized, confused band of freedom fighters that moved into action when the Pakistani Army struck in late March to try to crush the Bengali autonomy movement,

The 131st death anniversary programme of philosopher-poet-song composer Fakir Lalon Shah, attended by thousands on October 17 each year, will not be organised this year at his shrine in Chheuria of Kushtia.

He was a member of the special squad that shook the confidence of the Pakistan occupation army and unnerved them using clandestine commando attacks during the 1971 Liberation War.

A five-day long Butthan Martial art training camp, organised by Satyapon Janaa Shikshasram, was held from October 10 to 14 in Panchagarh.

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Out of a population of over 160 million in Bangladesh, approximately 107 million people live in rural areas. Of them, at least 50 million are women and girls.

The world should now be more aware of the likely Covid-19 devastation unless urgently checked. Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a USD 8 billion plan to quickly vaccinate many more people to expedite the end of the pandemic.

Bureaucratic foot-dragging appears to be what Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC) has done most of the time during the pandemic.

After 11 hours of outage, 3G and 4G mobile data services resumed across the country yesterday evening.

The five-day Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Bangalee Hindu community, ended yesterday with the immersion of the idols of Goddess Durga and her children in water bodies across the country amid festivity.

Pakistan President Yahya Khan returned today from Tehran after cutting short his stay for the Iranian anniversary celebration.

Saying that repatriation is the only solution to the Rohingya crisis, academicians in a webinar yesterday urged the international community to mount pressure on Myanmar so that it takes back its nationals stuck in Bangladesh.