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The Bangladesh Army has arrested 2,500 individuals and seized more than 6,000 illegal weapons in ongoing operations aimed at stabilising law enforcement across the country, following its recent granting of magistracy powers.Colonel Intekhab Haider Khan, Colonel Staff of the Military Operations Direc...
The United States has called for upholding and protecting "freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, and association" for all, including dissenting and opposition voices in Bangladesh."Upholding and protecting these freedoms for all Bangladeshis is necessary to ensure a true democrati...
A writ petition has been filed with the High Court, challenging the legality of the power deal signed between the Bangladesh government and the Adani Group of India.A Supreme Court lawyer on Wednesday (November 13) filed the writ petition, seeking directive of the higher court on the government to r...
Shipping, labour and employment adviser Brig Gen (retd) Dr M Sakhawat Hussain on Wednesday laid emphasis on ensuring better working environment for the workers engaged in the country’s shipbuilding industry as he visited Karnaphuli Shipyard in Narayanganj port.He also stressed the necessity of...
Attorney General Md Asaduzzaman at a hearing at the High Court on Wednesday said the 15th amendment that scrapped the provision of caretaker government system, was the direct blow on the constitution.The chief state counsel came up with the comments while taking part in the hearing on a rule issued ...
City
The 2024 UN climate conference, commonly known as COP29, is being held in Baku of Azerbaijan from November 11, but any representatives from many of the world’s biggest polluters are still absent in the climate summit. The world summit will continue till November 22. Professor Dr. Ahmad Ka...
Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; has that the government is actively working to ensure the coexistence of wild elephants and humans. As part of this effort, a plan is being developed to promote peaceful coexistence between elephants and hum...
The World Diabetes Day-2024 will be observed today (November 14) in the country with the globe aimed at building public awareness on the chronic metabolic disease.This year’s theme of the day is “Diabetes: Our Commitment to Good Health”.In 1991, International Diabetes Federation (I...
A Dhaka court has exempted 66 pro-BNP lawyers, including president of Supreme Court Bar Association Barrister AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon, from the charges of a case filed over attacking policemen from a procession in the capital in 2023.CMM court's Kotwali Police Station general registration officer...
The Annual Commanders Conference of the Corps of Signals of the Bangladesh Army was held at the Signal Training Centre and School (STC&S) in Jashore Cantonment on Wednesday.Chief of Army Staff General Waker-Uz-Zaman was the chief guest at the conference.In his address, the Chief of Army Staff ca...
Five more deaths were reported from dengue in the 24 hours till Wednesday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in the country to 372 this year.Among the dead, three were reported in the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), one in the Dhaka Division (outside the c...
Business & Commerce
Speakers at a roundtable discussion observed that the next five years will be crucial for the garments industries of Bangladesh. They said under the EU strategies for sustainable and circular textiles, the garments producing countries must transition from linear to circular production model.The...
Kanaighat Association UK, a platform of people of Sylhet’s Kanaighat upazila living in the United Kingdom, strongly protested and condemned the killing of six-year-old child Muntaha Akhter Jerin. The London-based organisation in its EC meeting held on Monday demanded exemplary punishment ...
Jagannath University (JnU) became a full-fledged public university in 2005 from Jagannath College, but the university is still functioning on the earlier small-scale college campus. The government had announced plans to build a new campus with residential halls for the university at Taghoria in...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir urged the interim government to complete reforms quickly and hold elections, which are the only path to restoring democracy.He said patience is needed to allow the interim government to complete the reform processes. Besides, all issues should be res...
The Chief Prosecutor’s Office of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) sent a letter to Interpol on Sunday, seeking red alert for the arrest of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina on charges of crimes against humanity.ICT Chief Prosecutor Tajul Islam confirmed the matter to reporters on Tues...
National,Back Page
Thousands of workers of four separate readymade garment (RMG) factories at Konabari in Gazipur staged demonstrations on Tuesday morning, hours after workers of TNZ Apparels Limited Group lifted their three-day long blockade on Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway on Monday night.Now the traffic movement on Dhak...
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus passed a busy day on Tuesday, the opening day of the COP29 global climate summit, in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.The head of Bangladesh interim government and the 2006 Nobel Peace laureate met at least 20 top leaders of different countries and heads of inte...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said that the previous caretaker government and the current government are not the same. This government has come at a critical moment, through the movement of students and mass people.As a result, this government has to make reforms in va...
Hours after criticising the government for removing Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s portrait from Bangabhaban, Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Tuesday apologised for his unwarranted remark.“I had thought Sheikh Mujib's photo was taken down fro...
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