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Sprinter Jahir handed six-month ban

The Bangladesh Athletics Federation on Wednesday handed a six-month ban to gold medal winner in the 400-metre sprint at the last National Athletics Championships, Jahir Rayhan, from domestic and international competitions for providing misleading information to the media following his dismal exit from the men’s 400-metre event of the World Athletics Indoor Championships 2025 in Nanjing, China, on March 21.

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Bangladesh presses Pakistan for apology over 1971, asset share

Dhaka on Thursday in a meeting with Islamabad once again called for a formal apology for atrocities perpetrated by the Pakistani occupation forces during the War of Independence in 1971 and return of Bangladesh’s due share of its pre-independence assets and...

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Bangladesh to ratify 1992 Water Convention

Bangladesh has decided to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention) 1992.

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Luna urges interim govt to reveal fate of her husband Ilias Ali

Tahsina Rushdir Luna, the wife of missing Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader M Ilias Ali, on Thursday urged the interim government to clearly inform her family about the fate of her husband after being subjected to enforced disappearance 13 years ago....

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Dhaka urges Delhi to take steps to protect minority Muslims

Chief adviser’s press secretary Shafiqul Alam on Thursday said that the interim government strongly protested India’s attempts to involve Bangladesh in communal violence in Murshidabad, West Bengal, and urged the neighbouring country...

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Mujibnagar Govt internationally recognised, constitutional: adviser

Liberation war affairs adviser Faruk-e-Azam has said that the Mujibnagar government is an internationally recognised and constitutional government as it has organised the country’s liberation war and helped establish relations with international communities. ..

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BNP for neither secularism nor pluralism

Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed on Thursday reaffirmed his party’s opposition to ‘secularism’ — a fundamental principle in the existing constitution — and rejected the proposed inclusion of...

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Meghna Alam shown arrested in fraud case

Model and chairperson of Miss Bangladesh Foundation Meghna Alam on Thursday was shown arrested in a fraud case filed with Dhanmondi police station...

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Shabnam Huq’s 25th death anniv today

Today is the 25th death anniversary of Shabnam Huq, wife of Arham Masudul Huq, former chief executive officer of Dhaka Bank Foundation, said a press release...

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BSF kills Bangladeshi youth

A Bangladeshi national was killed allegedly by the Indian Border Security Force at Madhya Singimari border under Hatibandha upazila in Lalmonirhat district on Wednesday...

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Premier Bank fined as Iqbal withdraws fund

The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit has fined Premier Bank for allowing its former chairman, HBM Iqbal, to illegally withdraw Tk 1.11 crore and $30,000 from frozen accounts, according to BFIU officials...

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Parties discuss polls, reforms with US team

Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and National Citizen Party leaders in separate meetings with a visiting United States delegation discussed next national elections and reform issues on Wednesday in Dhaka city...

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Mujibnagar Day today

Historic Mujibnagar Day will be observed today, marking the oath-taking ceremony of Bangladesh’s first government on April 17, 1971...

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IMF wraps up discussion on positive notes

The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday concluded its discussions with the government of Bangladesh on the disbursement of $1 billion under a $4.7 billion loan programme...

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Govt’s bank borrowing jumps to Tk 51,981cr

The net government borrowing from the country’s banking sector surged in the July–March period of the 2024–25 financial year compared with that in the same period a year earlier, as it ramped up borrowing to address budget deficit ahead of the financial year’s end...

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Election by June 2026, Yunus assures BNP

Chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday assured the Bangladesh Nationalist Party that the next general election would be held by June 2026 as the party urged the government to clarify the actual issue behind the ongoing discussions about the interim government’s five-year term in office...

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Business Case Competition 2025 by HSBC, BRACU concludes

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited in Bangladesh in partnership with BRAC Business School, BRAC University recently organised the finale and award-giving ceremony of the ‘Business Case Competition 2025’, says a press release.

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BIDA urges BERC to revise gas price hike

The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority has urged the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission to revise the recently announced gas price hike, saying that otherwise, it would affect the economic momentum. ..

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Bay Dev to use Anwar Group’s building materials

A memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Construction Materials Division of Anwar Group of Industries, the country’s leading local industrial conglomerate, and Bay Developments Limited, a renowned name in Bangladesh’s real estate sector...

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