National,Sports,Cricket
A general diary (GD) has been filed against Bangladesh National Team cricketer Taskin Ahmed for allegedly assaulting and threatening an individual named Sifatur Rahman Sourav in Mirpur area of the capital.Sifatur Rahman filed the general diary with Mirpur Model Police Station on Sunday."We have...
National,Politics
The National Consensus Commission (NCC) will seek formal commitments from political parties to fully implement the ‘July National Charter 2025’ within two years.The NCC on Monday sent the draft parts of the July National Charter (Reform Charter) to the political parties to review it.Acco...
National,Bank & Insurance,Politics
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has frozen over Tk 17.39 crore in 53 accounts of 17 banks of former lawmaker of Cumilla-6 constituency and his daughter Tahsin Bahar Suchona, former mayor of the Cumilla City Corporation. The CID has frozen the money following an order of the Senior S...
Home Adviser Lieutenant General Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (Retd.) has reiterated that no extortionist will be spared.“No extortionist will be spared, no matter how powerful he might be or which identity he holds,” he said referring to the action taken against the extortionists at Gulsha...
World
A landslide triggered by unusually heavy rain has killed four people and left eight others missing in northern China’s Hebei province, state media report, as authorities issue flood warnings in capital Beijing and at least 11 provinces.The landslide in a village near Chengde city was “du...
The United Nations Human Rights Mission in Dhaka will organise a ‘commemoration and dialogue event’ on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the July 2024 events.Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus is scheduled to preside over the session to be held at a city hotel in the afternoon.The event ...
National,Politics,City
The National Consensus Commission (NCC) has requested an investigation into a fire alarm incident that disrupted Monday's proceedings in its second round of talks with political parties.The incident occurred at the Shapla Hall of the main building of the Foreign Service Academy in the capital.Fo...
National,Business,Politics
The government is hopeful of a positive outcome from the third round of talks between a Bangladeshi delegation and the United States Trade Representative (USTR) aimed at reducing the increased tariffs on Bangladeshi exports to the US, said Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam.“W...
National
The Cabinet Division has issued seven precautionary directives aimed at safeguarding government officials from falling victim to fraudulent schemes, including potential threats posed by vested groups and foreign intelligence agencies.In a recent letter addressed to the senior secretaries and secreta...
National,Politics,Education & Culture
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami’s Nayeb-e-Ameer Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher on Monday demanded a transparent, merit-based and impartial Public Service Commission (PSC) to keep ‘authoritarian ghosts’ at bay from the country’s bureaucracy.“We want a PSC that is transparent, m...
Reuters, New Delhi: India's defence minister said on Monday that New Delhi had ended its military conflict with Pakistan in May as it had met all its objectives and had not responded to pressure, rejecting U.S. President Donald Trump's claim that he brokered the truce.Defence Minister Rajnat...
Reuters, Athens: Firefighters battled to put out wildfires on Monday in three separate provinces in Turkey and near a tourist resort in Albania, stoked by strong winds after days of searing heat across the Mediterranean region.Smoke billowed over the mountainous Black Sea province of Karabuk, some 2...
Reuters, Sydney: The national congress of Palau has said it "cannot accept" a United States proposal for the Pacific Islands nation to accept asylum seekers from third countries, as its president holds annual funding talks in Washington.Palau's national congress wrote to President Sura...
World,Business
Reuters, Turnberry, Scotland: The U.S. struck a framework trade agreement with the European Union on Sunday, imposing a 15% import tariff on most EU goods - half the threatened rate - and averting a bigger trade war between the two allies that account for almost a third of global trade.U.S. Presiden...
Reuters, Edinburgh/Turnberry, Scotland: U.S. President Donald Trump will host British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at his golf resort in western Scotland on Monday for talks ranging from their recent bilateral trade deal to the worsening hunger crisis in Gaza, the two governments said.Trump, riding h...
Israeli pressure groups B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights warned in a joint statement on Monday of what they called the development of a "genocidal regime in Israel, working to destroy Palestinian society in Gaza"."Nothing prepares you for the realisation that you are part ...
National,Politics,Country
National Citizen Party (NCP) convener Nahid Islam on Monday said if there had not been a mass uprising on August 5, none would even have dreamt of an election.He also said, "Under fascist Hasina, you would have had to wait another four years for an election. We want justice for all the crimes c...
National,Health
Two more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Monday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 78 this year.The fatalities occurred in the Barishal and Chattogram divisions, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DG...
AFP, SRINAGAR, India: Indian security forces killed three suspected armed rebels in Indian-administered Kashmir on Monday during a clash in a wildlife reserve, the army said.The incident occurred in the mountains of Dachigam, around 30 kilometres (18 miles) from the disputed region's main city o...
AFP, GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Gaza's civil defence agency said 16 people were killed by Israeli fire Monday in the Palestinian territory devastated by more than 21 months of war.Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP the dead included five people killed in an overnight strike on a re...
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