| Dhaka, Sunday, 19 May 2024

Dialogue with city dwellers soon: DSCC mayor

Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sayeed Khokon will hold a dialogue with the city dwellers soon, to listen about their problems.

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India’s upper house passes bill paving way for ratification of land boundary deal with Bangladesh

In a rare display of unanimity, India's Rajya Sabha yesterday passed the landmark constitution amendment bill to ratify the long-pending Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh. 

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3 city mayors sworn-in

The newly elected mayors and councillors of three city corporations in Dhaka and Chittagong were sworn-in this morning.

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BJP, RSS leaders discuss LBA with Bangladesh

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) brass on Monday met at the residence of party chief Amit Shah to discuss matters related to Assam, including the contentious Land Boundary Agreement with ...

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Families forced to pay ransom for Bangladeshis stuck in jungle camps

Promising jobs in Malaysia, a gang of human traffickers held about 250,000 Bangladeshis captive in Thailand for ransom over the past eight years and made millions of taka (a million ...

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India cabinet approves bill to operationalise land boundary deal with Bangladesh

Indian cabinet today approved a constitution amendment bill to operationalise Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh that includes its north-eastern state of Assam.

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2 killed in ‘gunfight’

Two persons were killed in a ‘shootout’ with police at Panchbibi in Joypurhat on Monday night.

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2 Shibir leaders face contempt proceedings

A tribunal in Dhaka today initiated contempt of court proceedings against Abdul Jabbar and Atiqur Rahman, president and secretary general of Islami Chhatra Shibir, for their statements about a war ...

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Twaki Mancha demands Azmeri Osman's arrest

Santrash Nirmul Twaki Mancha, a platform of socio-cultural-political activists protesting at the murder of Tanvir Muhammad Twaki of Narayanganj, demanded arrest of Ajmeri Osman, son of late Jatiya Party leader ...

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Summit Group and GE start joint power plant

A joint venture of Summit Group, Bangladesh’s leading power producer, and a unit of General Electric Co has started a plant initially supplying up to 240 megawatts (MW) of electricity ...

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Cabinet approves draft of Nuclear Power Plant Law

  The cabinet on Monday approved the draft of ‘The Nuclear Power Plant Law, 2015’ aimed at constructing the Nuclear Power Plant at Rooppur in Iswardi, Pabna.

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Al-Qaeda admits responsibility for killing Rajib, Lilon

Al-Qaeda in Indian Sub-Continent (AQIS) admitted their involvement in killing blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider and Rajshahi University professor Shafiul Islam Lilon.A top AQIS leader Asim Umar on Saturday released a ...

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Mass grave of Bangladeshi migrants found in Thailand

At least 32 shallow graves believed to belong to trafficked migrants were discovered yesterday on a remote and rugged mountain in border district Sadao, in Songkhla. 

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BD urges US to repatriate Mujib’s killer

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali has called upon the United State (US) to extend necessary support to repatriate the convicted killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who is now reportedly ...

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BD urges US to repatriate Mujib’s killer

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali has called upon the United State (US) to extend necessary support to repatriate the convicted killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who is now reportedly ...

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UN, EU for probe into election anomalies

The United Nations has called for a probe into the allegations of irregularities in Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation polls by the competent authorities.

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Bus plunge kills 5 in Kushtia

Five people were killed and 30 injured as a bus plunged into a roadside ditch in Mirpur upazila of Kushtia early today.

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It was a free, fair city polls: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said that the just concluded elections to Chittagong and Dhaka cities were conducted in a free and fair fashion.  

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UN for probing city polls ‘allegations’

In view of the freshly concluded dodgy mayor elections in Bangladesh, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for probe into those allegations

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Voters can know polling centre info by SMS

Voters in the upcoming three city corporation elections could know the name of polling stations through short message service (SMS).

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