Australia opener David Warner made Bangladesh pay for an early drop with a big hundred as the reigning champions piled on the runs in a World Cup match at Trent Bridge in Nottingham yesterday.

Expressing concern over inadequate help for farmers, leading agricultural economists yesterday suggested formation of a special fund from where the growers would receive price support during harvesting period.

Former agriculture minister Matia Chowdhury yesterday blasted Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal for his budgetary proposal to increase tax at source on family savings certificate from five percent to 10 percent.

Top-ranked ODI bowler Jasprit Bumrah said yesterday that the pitches in England used for white ball cricket are the “flattest tracks” he has ever bowled on, adding that there is barely any movement either in the air or off the pitch.

Police found Syed Iftekhar Alam Sourav, nephew of former state minister for home Sohel Taj, in Mymensingh yesterday, 11 days after he went missing from Chattogram.

Kane Williamson anchored New Zealand to a tense four-wicket victory at Edgbaston on Wednesday after an astonishing stroke of luck when South Africa failed to review an edge from the Kiwi captain.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other senior Saudi officials should be investigated over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi since there is credible evidence they are liable for his death, a UN rights investigator said yesterday.

With the Rohingya repatriation nowhere in sight, their leaders say they feel ignored both by the international community and the Bangladesh government in the process of making decisions about their fate.

At a ground steeped in history, Bangladesh will attempt to create a bit of history of their own by beating Australia for the first time in a World Cup match today in Trent Bridge.

England captain Eoin Morgan set a new world record of 17 sixes in an individual one-day international innings as the World Cup hosts thrashed Afghanistan by 150 runs on Tuesday.

To strengthen security further, the government is going to install two more explosive detection systems to screen export-oriented cargo at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka.

The High Court yesterday granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia for six months in two defamation cases.

The morning after serving notice of their prowess by completely outclassing West Indies, a happy Bangladesh squad boarded the bus from their team hotel in Taunton towards Nottingham at 11:00 am yesterday. The next challenge for Bangladesh in their World Cup campaign is facing five-time champions Australia on June 20 at Trent Bridge.

Expressing grave concern at the storing and sale of expired medicines, the High Court yesterday directed the government to confiscate all expired medicines from pharmacies across the country and destroy those within a month.

A tribunal in Dhaka yesterday rejected the bail petition of former Sonagazi Police Station OC Moazzem Hossain and sent him to jail over recording Nusrat Jahan Rafi’s statement on his phone and circulating the video clip on social media without her consent.

Three sixes off three successive balls, two of them hooked off bouncers delivered by a genuinely fast bowler. 15 minutes later, the score read 305 for three after 40 overs. Nine balls later, a total of 321 was chased down in just 41.3 overs.

In the end it was an easy seven-wicket victory for the Tigers against the West Indies that keeps them in contention for something significant at this World Cup after an amalgamation of improvement in every cricketing department.

Practising cover drives in the shower is just one manifestation of Steve Smith’s batting obsession but the Australian has assured his anxious team at the World Cup that he is not overdoing it.

The 64 Bangladeshi migrants who have been stranded in the Mediterranean Sea off Tunisian coast of Zarzis for 17 days have finally agreed to return home.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said there is enough money in banks but that’s not for looting.