AFP, Brisbane : World record-holder Kaylee McKeown ramped up preparations for the defence of her Olympic 100m backstroke crown with the second-fastest swim of all time on Tuesday. The 22-year-old blitzed home at the Australian Olympic trials in 57.41secs, just shy of her world-record 57.33 and ahead of Mollie O’Callaghan who became only the fourth swimmer ever to dip below 58. O’Callaghan’s 57.88 in Brisbane was enough to also easily qualify, but she may not swim the event in Paris...
Day: June 12, 2024
Agency : Former India batter Virender Sehwag slammed Shakib Al Hasan for his poor performance in the ongoing T20 World...
Staff Reporter : The main opposition party-BNP on Tuesday alleged that the ruling Awami League now depends on corrupt elements, plunderers, and some police officers. “The ruling Awami League now leans on looters, corrupting elements, and on some police officers and those who grab the property and loot money of poor people, including minorities. This party has already have been abandoned by the country’s people,” BNP Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said while speaking at a press conference at...
Staff Reporter : Dhaka Metropolitan Police Additional Police Commissioner (DB Chief) Harun Or Rashid announced that an investigation is underway to determine who shared information about the murder of Jhenaidah-4 Constituency Member of Parliament, Anwarul Azim Anar, and who financially benefited from it. Speaking at the DB office on Minto Road in the capital on Tuesday afternoon, DB Chief Harun stated that those involved in the killing mission are being investigated for sharing the picture of slain MP Anar from...
Staff Reporter : The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against Saidul Islam, system analyst and Saiful Islam, assistant...
World Cup (WC)-winning striker Miroslav Klose was named coach of second division German side Nuremberg on Tuesday. Klose, who scored 71 goals in 137 games for Germany and won the 2014 World Cup, started his coaching career as an assistant to Hansi Flick at Bayern Munich before taking over as manager of Austrian first division team Altach in 2022. “The values that the club stand for match my expectations. I usually go with my gut and immediately I had a...
Business Report : Investors are losing confidence in the stock market due to a number of factors including the lack...
City Desk : Five Eid-ul-Azha congregations will be held at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque, starting from 7am on Eid day. The first Eid jamaat will be administered by Hafez Maulana Ehsanul Haque, said a press release of Islamic, reports media. The second one will be held at 8am while the next three jamaats will be held at 9am, 10am and 10:45am, respectively....
City Desk : Local Government and Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Md Tajul Islam on Tuesday said the government will install a total of 10,65,000 arsenic-free water sources in rural areas of the country by 2025 under different projects. “The local government and rural development division has undertaken various initiatives to ensure arsenic-free water at rural areas,” he told the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) while responding to a question from a treasury bench member Morshed Alam of Noakhali-2 constituency in the...
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