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Liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply to the national grid has been increased amid the severe gas crisis that has been continuing for more than one and a half months. LNG supply has been raised to 98 crore cubic feet per day after a new cargo started arriving from 10pm on Monday (September 14).
The Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate has seized 223 cartons of foreign cigarettes, 44 vapes and 144 mobile displays from passengers on three international routes at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. The estimated market value of the recovered goods is around Tk 17.45 lakh.
A young man was shot in the right leg after assailants entered a house in North Badda in Dhaka on Saturday night (Setember 12).
Marriage marks the beginning of a new chapter in life. Divorce, on the other hand, can bring that chapter to an abrupt end. Both are deeply significant events in a person's life. Yet for years, official records of such events have largely remained confined to paper registers and handwritten documents.
A social media account named @BanglaExpatSharjah has been surfaced. Initially, it seemed to represent a Bangladeshi expatriate residing in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. However, this individual was nonexistent. The entire persona was created through the use of artificial intelligence, or AI.
“Definitely corrupt and unskilled authorities ”
The England cricket team is set to tour Bangladesh next February to play a two-match Test series. Part of the World Test Championship cycle, the first match of the series will be held at Mirpur in Dhaka, while the second will take place in Sylhet.
Saudi Pro League club Al Nassr has created new history by breaking a long-standing unique record in world football. The club has made the record of scoring in the most consecutive matches in the domestic top league its own. After a 1-1 draw with Al Khaleej on Saturday, Cristiano Ronaldo’s team broke the record that had remained intact for 87 years and created new history.
Kent has been left disappointed after Bangladesh Cricket Board decided not to release Hasan Mahmud for the final two matches of the County Championship. The Bangladesh pacer, who was in fine form, will not be available for Division Two’s last two games, dealing a major blow to Kent’s promotion hopes.
Bangladesh’s women suffered their heaviest defeat in international football after being thrashed 10-0 by North Korea in their opening Asian Games group-stage match in Osaka on Monday (September 14).
Defender Bishwanath Ghosh has been ruled out of the FIFA ASEAN Cup after suffering a hamstring injury that is expected to keep him sidelined for three to four weeks.
Alexander Zverev ended a six-year wait for US Open glory by beating home favourite Ben Shelton 6–3, 7–6 (7–2), 5–7, 6–2 in the final in New York to claim his second Grand Slam title.
A DNA test has revealed that two Dutch women who became close friends as teenagers are actually biological sisters, separated in infancy after being adopted from two different orphanages in Mumbai.
US President Donald Trump has said that the United States (US) could remain in Iran even after the war ends and potentially retain control of the country’s oil.
A planned meeting between Iran and Gulf Arab states on the Strait of Hormuz has been suspended, intensifying concerns over global oil supplies amid attacks and disruptions along key energy routes.
Jamaat-e-Islami has declared Mohammad Selim Uddin, Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Dhaka Metropolitan North, as the mayoral candidate for Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Sadiq Kayem, VP of DUCSU, as the mayoral candidate for Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC).
Prime Minister's Political Assistant (Secretary rank) Rashed Khan has said, regarding the corruption allegations raised against National Citizen Party (NCP) spokesperson and former adviser Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan, that Asif Mahmud joined the Jamaat alliance to secure immunity from various corruption allegations and political pressure and to protect himself.
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal has condemned and protested the display of a controversial 1948 photograph of Muhammad Ali Jinnah at the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) museum. The organisation believes this is a direct insult to the heritage of the language and independence movements.
Police have arrested SM Shahinuzzaman Shahin, a member of the Jamalpur district Awami League and an independent candidate in the 2024 parliamentary election, from Uttara in Dhaka.
Marriage marks the beginning of a new chapter in life. Divorce, on the other hand, can bring that chapter to an abrupt end. Both are deeply significant events in a person's life. Yet for years, official records of such events have largely remained confined to paper registers and handwritten documents.
On August 16, 2021, the Taliban captured Kabul just a day prior. The last stage of the US military's withdrawal was still in progress. At Hamid Karzai International Airport, events transpired that day which appeared to challenge any straightforward characterization of disorder.
Bangladesh does not need to win the global race for computing power. It needs to rediscover its own strength: organising people so that technology creates shared prosperity.
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Humayun Kabir has said Bangladesh will support the Maldives' candidate in the future election for the regional chief of the World Health Organization's (WHO) South-East Asia region.
Bangladesh has strongly condemned Israel's plan to expand settlements in the E-1 area of the occupied West Bank.
The New York Bangla Film Festival has invited submissions of films for its second edition to be held in New York early next year. In this edition, Bangla language films will be screened in four categories — short film, documentary, web film and feature film. There will be awards for selected and winning filmmakers in each category.
Positive Thinking Day is observed each year to encourage optimism and remind people that while life does not always go as planned, the way we respond to difficult situations can shape our emotional wellbeing.
Bangladesh Bank data show that the number of bank accounts holding deposits of more than Tk 1 crore has increased by 5,077 in just three months. According to the central bank's latest statistics, the number of such accounts stood at 141,562 at the end of June this year, up from 136,485 at the end of March.
