DHAKA -  This year's Miss Universe will have the first Muslim model hailing from Bangladesh. Shirin Akter Shela was crowned in the inaugural edition of Miss Universe Bangladesh and has been selected to represent the country at the renowned beauty pageant.  Shirin was crowned last week by ...

LAHORE – Pakistan women made history on Saturday by beating Bangladesh women by 14 runs in the first of the three-match T20I series at Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium. Playing their first-ever international match at the home of Pakistan cricket, Pakistan elected to bat after winning the toss. Captain ...

LAHORE - The first T-20 of three-match series between Pakistan and Bangladesh Women teams is being played at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore today (Saturday). The second T-20 of the series will be played on Monday while 3rd T-20 will be played on Wednesday. The two matches One Day International series ...

ISLAMABAD - Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi informed his Bangladeshi and Iranian counterparts on the latest situation in Indian Occupied Kashmir on Tuesday. Qureshi made a telephone call to Javad Zarif and thanked the Iranian government and its people for supporting the people in the occupied ...

LONDON - Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat first against Bangladesh in their last league match at London in ICC Cricket World Cup today (Friday). The Green Shirts decided to go with the same squad, without any changes with Skipper Sarfraz saying that they would try their level best to ...

 BIRMINGHAM - India defeated Bangladesh by 28 runs in an all-important thriller of ICC World Cup 2019 on Tuesday. Batting first, India posted a 315-run target for Bangladesh at Birmingham as Rohit Sharma scored 104 runs while K.L Rahul contributed 77 in 50 overs; Mustafizur Rahman took 5 ...

DHAKA - A train derailment in northeastern Bangladesh has killed at least four people and injured about 100 people, an official said Monday. The accident took place in Moulvibazar district, some 203 km away from the capital Dhaka. Nurun Nabi, a local fire service official, told Xinhua that the ...

BRISTOL - Heavy overnight and early morning rain continued to delay the start of the World Cup group match between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in Bristol on Tuesday. The umpires were due to hold a further inspection at 12:15 pm (1115 GMT) local time after the weather prevented the match starting as ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Tuesday has lodged a strong protest with Bangladesh over the incident of the burglary at its High Commission in Bangladesh capital. A few days ago, unidentified burglars broke into the consular section of the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka and had stolen some computers, ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi will reach Turkey Thursday to lead Pakistan’s delegation for the 9th D-8 Summit being held in Istanbul on October 20. This is Abbasi’s first visit to Turkey since assuming the PM office. He would be interacting with the leaders of D-8 ...

NEW DELHI - Bangladesh has supported China's One-Belt-One-Road (OBOR) initiative, a day after the Trump administration threw its weight behind India's opposition to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Speaking at the ongoing World Economic Forum in India this week in New Delhi, ...

UNITED NATIONS - Scores of Rohingya women who were aggressively sexually assaulted while fleeing Myanmar's violence-wracked Rakhine State are being treated for injuries consistent with horrific sex attacks, according to UN medics. A total of eight medical professionals working in Bangladesh ...

ISLAMABAD - Thousands of people Friday marched on Islamabad to protest the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, prompting the security forces to seal the most sensitive area of the federal capital, Red Zone. Religious organisations, political parties, students and members of the civil ...

LAHORE - The World XI team is coming to Pakistan next month, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Najam Sethi has confirmed while reaffirming his aim to restore international cricket in the country. Speaking at the development program ceremony held for Lahore Qalandars' players in the Punjab ...

ISLAMABAD - The Saarc summit 2016 has been postponed after four out of eight members - India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Bhutan - pulled out of a regional summit of South Asian leaders in Pakistan. The summit was due in November 2016 in Islamabad. The new date is yet to be announced. Bangladesh, ...

DHAKA (Web Desk) - Bangladesh on Tuesday executed Jamaat-e-Islami leader Motiur Rahman Nizami for '1971 war crimes'. According to media reports, Motiur Rahman Nizami was hanged after the country's highest court rejected his final appeal by upholding his execution order. Read ...