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Govt to boost manpower at Bangladesh missions: Touhid

Bangladesh foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Friday said the interim government was actively working to increase manpower in Bangladesh’s missions abroad, particularly at consulate general offices, to ensure better services for millions of expatriates.

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Light to moderate rain or thundershowers likely

Bangladesh Meteorological Department on Friday forecasted light to moderate rain or thundershowers with lightning flashes and temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over the country for the next 24 hours, starting from 9:00am today.

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Analysts await Dhaka-Islamabad FOC follow up at political level

Foreign relation analysts in Dhaka have said they would await the follow up developments of the official level foreign office consultation (FOC) between Bangladesh and Pakistan at the political level as the issues of apology for 1971 genocide and asset sharing came up in the talks.

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BNP seeks int’l standard probe commission

Leaders and activists of different units of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in Sylhet on Thursday demanded forming an international standard probe commission to trace out the party’s enforced disappeared leaders and activists, including M Ilias Ali, a former lawmaker and organising secretary of the party...

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Rethinking Bangladesh’s garment exports

SINCE Donald Trump took office once again as the 47th president of the United States, the re-imposition of tariffs on global imports has brought the issue of trade wars back to the forefront of policy and academic debate. While the first Trump presidency initiated the use of tariffs and non-tariff barriers — including the restriction of access to strategic technologies...

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Protection, security for foreign investors

WHILE the government of Bangladesh was busy hosting the Investment Summit, the country witnessed the unfortunate incidents of vandalism at several outlets of Bata, KFC, and Domino’s Pizza under the pretext of the ‘Protest for Palestine’ on April 7, 2025. Although the government acted quickly to arrest the suspects involved in these events, its failure to...

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Bangladesh women to play tri-nation friendlies

Bangladesh national women’s football team will play tri-nation friendlies against Jordan and Indonesia from May 31 to June 3 in Amman, as stated by Mahfuza Akter Kiron, the chief of the women’s wing of the Bangladesh Football Federation, on Thursday.

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Continued border killing further strains relations with India

Yet another death of a Bangladeshi at the hands of India’s Border Security Force shows a continued disregard of Indian guards for laws and border protocols. It also shows the nullity of the pledges that Indian authorities, including the Border Security Force, have made to end border killing and to never use lethal weapons in border management. On April 16, the Bangladeshi...

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Next IMF loan tranche may face further delay

The release of the next tranche of the International Monetary Fund’s $4.7 billion loan to Bangladesh may face further delay, as the IMF has yet to reach a staff-level agreement with the government...

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Professor Yunus for stronger Dhaka-Islamabad ties

Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Thursday emphasised strengthening relations with Pakistan to boost mutual cooperation and explore trade and business potentials.

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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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