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The Rapid Action Battalion on early Saturday rescued an eight-month-old baby girl named Zaifa, abducted by robbers after looting money and gold ornaments from a house at Azimpur Medical Staff Quarters in the capital. A team of the RAB recused the baby from Mohammadpur area in the city and arres...
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Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, distinguished fellow of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), has alleged that people with vested interests had been strategically placed within Bangladesh Bank (BB) to serve the interest of particular groups.“They printed money, showed fake reserves. A person who is...
The government has extended the executive magisterial power of all commissioned officers from the Army, Navy, and Air Force by an additional 60 days.According to a notification issued by the Ministry of Public Administration on Saturday, commissioned officers of the Bangladesh Armed Forces, ranked C...
Country’s people, especially farmers living in the rural area, on Saturday, celebrated the ‘Nabanna Utsab’, a Bengali festival of harvesting new crops amid festivity and fervour.With the ray of sunshine of the first day of Agrahayon (Bangla month), the farmers, the integral part of...
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The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims 2024 will be observed in Bangladesh as elsewhere in the world today (Sunday) in memory of those injured or killed in road crashes. It is a global event dedicated to honouring the millions of lives lost or severely affected by road crashes. T...
The Ministry of Religious Affairs on Saturday has issued cautionary alert over fraudulence on hajj refund, as several groups of fraudsters are active in the country in the name of returning Hajj's refund money. The Ministry requested all to be careful against such fraudulent circles," ...
Bangladesh Navy will keep its ships in Dhaka, Chattogram, Khulna, Barishal and Chandpur open for all to visit on the occasion of the Armed Forces Day on November 21.Bangladesh Naval vessels will remain open at the selected river ports from 12:00pm until the sun sets on Thursday, said an Inter-Servic...
Restriction has been imposed on vehicular movement inside the Dhaka cantonment on November 21, marking the Armed Forces Day, according to a press release of Inter-Serviced of Public Relations (ISPR).It said various events will take place inside Dhaka Cantonment marking the day.The movement will be r...
A gang of robbers kidnapped an eight-month-old baby girl after looting money and gold ornaments from a house at Azimpur Medical Staff Quarters in the capital on Friday morning. Several teams of police are hunting down the robbers who decamped with Tk 1.5 lakh in cash and four bhoris of gold orn...
Members of the Tablighi Jamaat faction led by Indian preacher Saad Kandhlawi have gathered at Kakrail Mosque in the capital for a two-week stay.On Friday, Saad's disciples entered the mosque and took over management duties from its rival faction, led by senior cleric Zubair Ahmed, reportedly on ...
The capital Dhaka has ranked the third on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 226 on Friday morning.On Friday’s air was classified as 'very unhealthy’ and an unhealthy air quality continued for the past few days, according to the AQI index.When th...
Bangladeshi CSOs at the ongoing COP29 in Baku of Azerbaijan demanded for fossil fuel phase out, revision of the current power master plan, adequate and sustainable climate finance and a rapid transition to renewable energy. WaterKeepers Bangladesh, YouthNet, Friends of the Earth, 350.org, Don&r...
Speakers at an event stressed creating public awareness to substantially reduce the death rate of women with breast cancer in the country. The mass media can play a significant role in raising public awareness about prevention and treatment of the disease, they observed. They made the observati...
The Climate Debt Risk Index 2024 (CDRI), introduced by Bangladeshi non-government organisation Change Initiative (CI), called for a complete overhaul in the global climate finance framework. The report advocates for grant-based financing, 100 per cent debt relief, and a nature-based economy as ...
An expatriate physician, who lived in the United Kingdom, was killed and his wife injured at their house by the attack of suspected robbers at Dhanmondi of Dhaka early Friday.The deceased was AKM Abdur Rashid, 80, and his injured Sufira Rashid, both are doctors, live in the UK.Rashid was fatally sta...
The High Court (HC) on Thursday declared the immunity provision in Section 9 of the Quick Enhancement of Electricity and Energy Supply (Special Provision) Act-2010 as “illegal and unconstitutional.”The HC bench of Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Debashish Roy Chowdhury passed the rule. ...
Bangladesh has expressed sheer dissatisfaction over ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s frequent political statements from India, and urged the Indian government to refrain her from doing so. A spokesperson of the foreign ministry of Bangladesh told a press briefing in the capital on Th...
The interim government on Thursday decided to provide a lifetime free medical services to the injured during the July-August movement.The decision was taken during a meeting between the interim government's six advisers, a special assistant to the chief adviser and over a hundred individuals inj...
Under its credit guarantee scheme, Bangladesh Bank (BB) has provided Tk 6,585 crore in liquidity assistance to help meet the short-term funding requirements of financial institutions.Husneara Shikha, Executive Director and spokesperson of the central bank, shared the information with reporters on Th...
The government has asked the private sector to import 327,000 tonnes of rice within one month, aiming to further control the price of the food grain in the retail market in the country.A total of 59 rice importers have already got government approval to import the aforesaid amount of rice.Of the tot...
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