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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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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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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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Tackling emissions, powering growth

angladesh finds itself navigating a delicate balance between rapid economic development and urgent climate action. As the world’s seventh most climate-vulnerable nation, the country contributes a modest 0.4 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, yet its domestic emissions are growing at an alarming 5.6 per cent annual rate. This increase stems from the twin...

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Untangling medicine from marketing

IN BANGLADESH, the culture of gift-giving is deeply embedded in our social fabric. We give as gestures of respect, gratitude, or goodwill. Yet when these exchanges start to influence how doctors treat their patients, we cross into far more troubling territory that demands urgent public scrutiny...

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Worrying signs of arrogance of power

THE attack on a police constable inside the courtroom of the Pabna district and sessions judges court on April 15 by leaders and activists of local units of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party is yet another worrying sign of the arrogance of power. The police constable was beaten allegedly for stopping the BNP activists from recording a video and taking photographs inside the...

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Tigers look to end unusual losing streak

Bangladesh will certainly be looking to get back on the winning track on home soil when they take on Zimbabwe in a two-match Test series that starts at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on April 20...

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Registration opens for Barça Academy soccer camps in Dhaka

FC Barcelona’s official soccer school, Barça Academy, is set to run a football camp in Bangladesh for the second time from June 22 to 26 in association with its local organising partner International School Dhaka (ISD)...

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ERD, IOM sign 5m Euro grant agreement

The Economic Relations Division, finance ministry, signed a grant agreement worth five million Euro with the International Organisation for Migration on Tuesday.

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BNP’s talks with Consensus Commission Thursday

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party will meet with the National Consensus Commission today to discuss key recommendations made by five reform commissions covering the constitution, electoral system, judiciary, public administration and the Anti-Corruption Commission...

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