Even amidst the most bizarre realities in football, it just does not get any more bizarre than this. With the world watching, the press conference that transpired at the Camp Nou yesterday, was about to puncture hopes -- the last shred of it anyway -- and leave Barcelona fans with a gaping vacuum with nowhere to escape.

The police headquarters has formed a three-member probe body to investigate Additional Deputy Commissioner (DB Gulshan Division) Golam Saklain’s alleged unprofessional conduct with actress Pori Moni.

India’s counterterrorism group National Investigation Agency (NIA) said it has carried out searches in Bengaluru at the premises linked to a suspect who is involved in making fake identity documents for Bangladeshi human traffickers.

The first day of the Mass Vaccination programme has turned into another chaotic carnival of unrestrained mass cross-infection -- with hundreds of under-informed expectants waiting in lines just to get refused, disproportionate vaccine shortage, people fighting to get vaccine, political leaders halting vaccination and posing as vaccine administrators only for photoshoot.

The commerce ministry and representatives from some government bodies will sit on Wednesday to decide whether they would provide six months to Evaly after the digital platform sought the time to respond in detail to the show-cause notice it received recently.

Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury today said that Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatun Nesa Mujib had played a unique role in establishing the rights of the nation.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayor Md Atiqul Islam said all the officials, employees, and councilors of DNCC will remain active until Aedes mosquitoes — carrier of dengue and Chikungunya -- are eradicated.

The budget for this fiscal has not taken proper steps to mitigate the crisis of the disadvantaged people who have been hit hard by the ongoing economic crisis, analysts said today.

The government has decided to allow all public transport to operate at full capacity across the country from August 11.

At least 224 people with dengue fever were admitted to hospitals in the country in 24 hours till 8 am today. Of them, only 13 are from outside Dhaka.

A virtual court in Dhaka will decide, on August 17, whether to accept the probe report of the case filed over abetting the suicide of a college student.

Customs Intelligence officials detained a man with foreign currencies equivalent to Tk 22.55 lakh at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport early today.

Lionel Messi will travel to Paris on Sunday for medical tests with Paris Saint-Germain either later in the evening or early on Monday, the L’Equipe newspaper reported.

Taliban fighters have seized key government buildings in the northeastern Afghan city of Kunduz, leaving government forces hanging onto control of the airport and their own base, a provincial assembly lawmaker said on Sunday.

The Department of Environment (DoE) in Chattogram (Metro) fined four people Tk 6,90,000 for cutting hills in the port city.

A tearful Lionel Messi confirmed on Sunday he was leaving FC Barcelona after the club said it could no longer afford paying the Argentine's high wages, adding he was in negotiations with French club Paris St Germain over a possible move.

Thousands of homes have been damaged in Sudan after torrential rains caused heavy flooding, with many streets in the capital Khartoum deep in water, AFP correspondents said Sunday.

Bangladesh is keen to intensify political, trade, economic and cultural ties with the ASEAN countries, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib had contributed to taking right and timely political decisions for the country alongside managing her home and family.

Six people died and five were injured as a small truck fell into a roadside ditch in Gurudaspur upazila of Natore today.