NARSINGDI, Nov 20 (UNB): A Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader was attacked while arriving at Narsingdi Judge Court on Thursday.Siam Bhuiyan Abir (28), joint convener of Chhatra Dal in Ghorashal Municipality and son of Emran Mia of Darihaolapara in Palash...
The Election Commission (EC) will hold a meeting on November 27 to plan, coordinate and provide guidance on the deployment of law enforcement agencies to maintain law and order in polling stations and constituencies ahead of the upcoming 13th national...
OUR CORRESPONDENTKHULNA, Nov 20: Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, a distinguished fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), has urged the government, the administration, and the Election Commission (EC) to take stronger and more transparent steps to restore public trust ahead...
BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has said Bangladesh cannot move forward unless women feel safe both online and offline, calling for urgent national actions to protect and empower women in the digital age, reports UNB."Women must feel safe --both online...
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The government's tax revenue collection grew by nearly 16 per cent in the first four months of the current fiscal year, mainly riding on hefty growth in VAT collection.However, tax revenue collection lagged behind its target by Tk 172.19 billion...
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Police recovered the body of a student of private university in the city on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Mushfiq Uz Zaman, a student of the Department of Mathematics and Physical Sciences at East West University.According to the police,...
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The country's national gas grid is set to receive an additional 5.0 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) of natural gas from Kailashtila gas field starting next week. This increase in gas supply follows a successful workover of the Kailashtila-1...
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Bangladesh has urged member-states of the Colombo Security Conclave (CSC) to accelerate collective action on cyberthreats, misinformation and regional security, warning that individual national measures are no longer sufficient to counter rapidly evolving digital risks.Addressing the seventh meeting of National...
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A much-sought-after ordinance for establishing separate secretariat for the Supreme Court is endorsed now, in a move hailed by legal experts and reform advocates as a decisive step toward securing full judicial independence.The Supreme Court Secretariat Ordinance 2025 received its...
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CHATTOGRAM, Nov 20: A man was killed and five others were injured on Thursday afternoon when a vehicle skidded off an expressway and fell onto a busy road in Chattogram's Nimtala area. The incident occurred around 4:30 pm and caused...
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The High Court on Thursday directed the government not to proceed with any further activities related to the container-handling contract for the New Mooring Container Terminal (NCT) at Chattogram seaport until the writ petition challenging the initiative is resolved.The bench...
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Development activities remain in disarray as government ministries and agencies struggle to recover from last year's disruptions caused by the July uprising, officials said on Thursday.The sluggish execution of development projects has persisted into the first four months of the...
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Bhutan's Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay will arrive in Dhaka tomorrow (Saturday) on a three-day official visit that is expected to deepen bilateral cooperation and lay the groundwork for new economic and regional partnerships between the two Himalayan neighbours.Tobgay will meet...
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The Bangladesh Bank (BB) plans to implement risk-based supervision (RBS) from January 2026 and has asked the country's commercial banks to take necessary measures in this regard. As part of the shift from the decades-old compliance-based inspections, the central bankers...
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Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Adviser Prof Dr Asif Nazrul on Thursday said after the ICT verdict against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, India now carried "an additional responsibility" under the bilateral extradition treaty to return her.He was addressing a...
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M Matiul Islam, the country's first finance secretary and a pioneering figure in the financial and banking sector, passed away early Thursday at the age of 95.His namaz-e-janaza will be held at Azad Mosque in Gulshan after Jumma prayers today...
MIRPUR, Nov 20 (AFP): Mushfiqur Rahim joined an elite club on Thursday by scoring a century in his 100th Test, achieving the feat against Ireland in Mirpur.Resuming on 99 overnight, Mushfiqur reached his hundred with a single in the second...
The Armed Forces Day will be celebrated today (Friday) with various programmes amid festivity and enthusiasm to mark the establishment of army, navy and air force during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, reports BSS.The day's programmes will begin with the...
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The UN General Assembly's Third Committee has adopted by consensus a resolution urging renewed international efforts to resolve the protracted Rohingya crisis and ensure the safe return of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, said a foreign ministry spokesman on Thursday. The...
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Election-time neutral caretaker government revives, with prospective effect, in a reversal of a previous Supreme Court verdict contentiously rescinding the system under the then divisive political circumstances. The resurrected system of neutral government of 90-day tenure stays in animated suspension...
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Bangladesh begins a critical gap analysis of its economic strengths for aligning its trade policies with protocols of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) for joining the world's largest trade bloc.The comprehensive analysis aims to assess where Bangladesh currently stands...
ORLANS, Nov 20 (AFP): Inside a lab in the French city of Orleans, scientists are testing out the limits of molecules in our body called messenger RNA -- best known for being used in Covid-19 vaccines -- in the hopes...
TAIPEI, Nov 20 (Reuters): Taiwan President Lai Ching-te showed his support for Japan on Thursday with a lunch of Japanese-sourced sushi, after China indicated it would halt all imports of the country's seafood in an escalating dispute over the Chinese-claimed...
GAZA, Nov 20 (AFP): Israeli air strikes on Gaza killed 27 people Wednesday, officials in the Strip said, with Israel and Hamas each accusing the other of violating the fragile ceasefire in the Palestinian territory.The strikes were among the deadliest...
KATHMANDU, Nov 20 (AFP): A curfew was in force Thursday in a Nepalese town following clashes between young activists and loyalists of the former ruling party that was overthrown in a deadly September uprising.The measure was imposed for a second...
SYDNEY, Nov 20 (AFP): Australia framed its ceding of next year's COP to Turkey as a "big win", but the loss sparked disappointment on Thursday in the Pacific islands, which had been slated to co-host the climate meet.Canberra pulled the...
WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (AFP): US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would start "working" to end the war in Sudan, after visiting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman asked him to help solve the devastating conflict.Trump has until now barely...
KYIV, Nov 20 (BBC/AFP): Senior Pentagon officials have arrived in Ukraine to "discuss efforts to end the war" with Russia, the US military has said.The team, led by US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, held talks with Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia...
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