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Joy does not want to hold AL party post right now

Despite calls from Awami League (AL) top brass as well as grassroots leaders, Sheikh Hasina's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy said he is not interested to take up a post in the party's key bodies, report agencies. "It would not be appropriate to hold a designation while being abroad. I want...

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AL council boycott a right decision: BNP

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said on Sunday the party took the right decision by not joining Awami League's national council as there is no democratic atmosphere in the country, report agencies. "Not sending our delegation to their (AL) council, I think, a right decision since there...

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JS team off to Geneva to attend 135th IPU assembly

A parliamentary delegation, led by Deputy Speaker Fazle Rabbi Miah, left Dhaka for Geneva to attend the 135th Assembly of Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), reports UNB. The 14-member delegation left for Geneva on Saturday, said a Parliament Secretariat handout on Sunday. The 135th IPU Assembly is being held with the general...

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Fakhrul greets Hasina, Quader

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir greeted Sheikh Hasina and Obaidul Quader as they were elected president and general secretary of Awami League respectively, reports UNB. "We hope they'll work for the welfare of people and establishing people's voting right," Fakhrul said at a programme organised by Jatiyatabadi Sangskritik...

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Signals in Bengali, Urdu at border raise suspicion

KOLKATA, Oct 23: Suspicious signals in coded Bengali and Urdu languages along the India-Bangladesh border in past few months have raised suspicion over extremists using this unconventional mode of communication, prompting authorities to deploy Ham radio operators on round-the-clock duty, according to a report by India-based economictimes. The incident first...

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Dhaka, Ottawa to discuss ways to extradite Noor Chy

Bangladesh and Canada will further discuss ways for the extradition of Noor Chowdhury, a convicted killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in Ottawa this week, reports UNB. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali was supposed to leave for Ottawa on Sunday night and will have talks with his Canadian counterpart Stéphane...

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Cops claim death of suspect in 14 cases in Savar \'shootout\'

 A suspect charged in 14 criminal cases has been killed in a 'shootout' in Savar, say police. The incident took place in the early hours  of Sunday  in Charigram, said Ashulia thana  officer-in-charge (OC) Muhsinul Kader, reports bdnews24.com. The deceased has been identified as 35-year-old Rasel Dewan, the son of...

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SUST expels Badrul for attack on Khadiza

SYLHET. Oct 23: The authorities of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) expelled on Sunday Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader Badrul Alam for hacking Khadija Aktar Nargis, a student of Sylhet Government Women's College. The decision was taken at a syndicate meeting of SUST after getting report of the...

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Police arrest PCP GS in Khagrachhari over attack on PM\'s motorcade

KHAGRACHHARI, Oct 23 (UNB): Police arrested the general secretary of Pahari Chhatra Parishad (PCP), a United People's Democratic Front (UPDF)-backed organisation of indigenous students, from Mohammadpur area in Paanchhari upazila on Sunday morning. The arrestee was identified as Bipul Chakma (22), an accused in 13 cases, including a case filed...

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Probe report against six Gaibandha war crimes suspects on December 28

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has fixed December 28 for submitting report on probe into six persons for their alleged involvement in the crimes against humanity committed during the War of Liberation in 1971,  reports BSS. The accused Abdul Jabbar Mandal, Jafijar Rahman, Abdul Wahed Mandal, Mamtaz Ali Bepari, Asgar...

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Jail authority takes suspended SCC mayor to jail from hospital

SYLHET, Oct 23 (UNB): Suspended mayor of Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) Ariful Haque, who was undergoing treatment at Osmani Medical College Hospital, was sent back to Sylhet Central jail on Sunday. Jail Super Abdus Sagir Mia said the doctors of the hospital released him as his physical condition got improved...

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