UNB,Indian Wells Vania King beat qualifier Taylor Townsend 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday in an all-American match in the first round of the BNP Paribas Open at The Indian Wells Tennis Garden. British wild-card Heather Watson rallied from a 5-1 deficit in the first set to beat Galina Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-1. Americans…
Agnieszka Radwanska said she was “shocked, like everyone else” when Maria Sharapova revealed Monday that she failed a drug test in January at the Australian Open. “It was a very sad day for tennis, that’s for sure,” Radwanska said Wednesday at BNP Paribas Open at The Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Petra Kvitova and Simona Halep…
UNB, Dhaka The 10th round Group B matches of the Dhaka Metropolis 2nd Division Cricket League has been deferred by a day due to unavoidable circumstances. The three league matches of Group B will now be held on March 13 instead of March 12. Prantik KC will play Mirpur Cricket Club at BKSP ground-4, Dhaka…
UNB, Dhaka The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Department will arrange a two-day long Hackathon competition titled ‘National Hackathon 2016’ aiming to innovate solutions to the challenges to achieve the 10 selected Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The best young technologists of the country will participate in the competition to be held on April 6 They…
UNB,Chapainawabganj Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two people along with 800 grams of heroin from Rajpara area in Sadar upazila on Wednesday night. Rab said in a press release, acting on a tip-off, a team of the elite force conducted a drive in the area and arrested Shamsuddin,50, son of Altaf Hossain of…
UNB, Dhaka President Abdul Hamid returned home on Thursday morning from London after a 10-day visit for his medical check-up, including eye treatment. A regular flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the President landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 11:10am. On his arrival at the airport, the President was received by Finance Minister AMA…
Lost Years of Life 150,000 people are going to die today, and one of the brutally unfair realities of life is that where you are born can dramatically change how and at what age you die. There’s a really fascinating measurement called ‘years of life lost’ which measures how many years shy of the realistic…
Taiara Farhana Tareque The journey of Futsal Dhaka started with a dream of creating a well organized environment for football in our country. They watched matches on television together and thought of making things better for their own country. A friendly futsal tournament at a local playground was their first time organizing an event. After…
Md Taqi Yasir Born in Vienna, Austria on June 14, 1868, Karl Landsteiner saved the humanity by introducing the modern concept of blood groups, which on later part served as a mean of blood donation concept. Landsteiner was a medical science graduate of University of Vienna in 1891. Before the invention of blood groups people…
Tahsin Rahman Oshin Schizophrenia is a common mind condition found worldwide in people of all social classes, races and cultures. In most of the cases, especially teens, schizophrenia can be mixed up with teenage ‘drama’, aggression or stress. However, these are rather some of the widespread signs of the disorder and overlooking the matter can…