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Panicked students of Haji Muhammad Mohsin Hall at Dhaka University on Friday night took over at least 33 empty flats in the 20-storey Swadhinota Bhaban, a residential building meant for third-class staff, after a 5.7-magnitude earthquake shook Bangladesh.The building has 144 flats, but construction ...
World
Israel plans to expropriate large sections of the Sebastia archaeological site in the West Bank, according to a government document obtained by The Associated Press, while settlers overnight established a new outpost near Bethlehem, escalating tensions in the occupied territory.The Israeli Civil Adm...
Iran’s foreign ministry on Friday condemned a resolution by the U.N. atomic watchdog as “anti-Iranian” and warned of unspecified retaliatory actions, state media reported.The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Thursday called on Iran to fully cooperate by providing &ldquo...
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Health Adviser Nurjahan Begum has said that panic across the country particularly in Dhaka, was a major reason for the high number of injuries during the earthquake on Friday.She made the remarks while visiting injured patients at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) around noon.The adviser s...
A powerful boiler explosion at a glue-making factory in eastern Pakistan killed at least 18 people and injured 21 others on Friday, officials said. The blast ripped through the industrial facility in Faisalabad, flattening the building, sparking a massive fire and damaging several nearby homes.Polic...
AP, Dubai: An Indian Air Force pilot was killed on Friday when an Indian-made fighter jet went down during a demonstration at the Dubai Air Show, the Indian Air Force confirmed.The HAL Tejas aircraft, which had made several passes over the venue, crashed at around 2:10 p.m. local time after sud...
AFP, Kabul: Afghanistan is scrambling to diversify its trade partners after a deadly border clash with Pakistan last month brought ties to their lowest point in years, affecting people on both sides of the frontier.The South Asian neighbours have been locked in an increasingly bitter dispute si...
BBC NewsVenezuela's opposition leader will be considered a "fugitive" if she travels to Norway to collect her Nobel Peace Prize, the nation's attorney general has said.Tarik William Saab told news agency AFP that María Corina Machado - who has been living in hiding to avoid ...
National,Politics
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Friday said that the government is committed to building a discrimination-free, exploitation-free and welfare-oriented state as envisioned by the Freedom Fighters (FFs). “We are committed to fulfilling the dream for which the freedom fighters libe...
At least six people were killed and scores of others, including children and the elderly, were injured when a 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck Dhaka and several other parts of the country on Friday morning.Thirteen people were injured after the railing of a building collapsed on them in the Koshaitul...
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At least three people were killed as the railing of a building collapsed on them following a strong earthquake in Koshaituli area of Dhaka on Friday. The identities of the victims could not be confirmed immediately, said Mallik Ahsan Uddin Sami, Deputy Commissioner of the DMP's Lalbagh Divi...
Pakistani troops stormed two Pakistani Taliban hideouts in the country’s northwest near the Afghan frontier, sparking heavy gun battles that resulted in the deaths of 23 militants, the military announced Thursday.The statement provided no information regarding any military casualties. The oper...
South Africa has deployed 3,500 additional police officers and put army units on standby as Johannesburg prepares to host this weekend’s Group of 20 (G20) summit. Authorities conducted a parade Wednesday featuring helicopters, K-9 units, and motorbike officers to display readiness for anticipa...
Israel’s military launched heavy airstrikes across southern Lebanon on Wednesday, targeting what it described as Hezbollah weapons sites, after an earlier drone attack killed one person and injured several others, including schoolchildren traveling on a bus.The latest assault followed an airst...
A massive overnight barrage of Russian drones and missiles struck the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil, killing 19 people and injuring at least 66 others, authorities said on Wednesday, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy travelled to Turkey to seek fresh diplomatic support against Moscow’s inv...
UNB, Gazipur: A massive fire swept through a factory in Bagher Bazar area of Gazipur Sadar upazila on Wednesday, destroying valuables and damaging a nearby printing factory and a house.The fire broke out at the Finix Coil factory around 12:55 pm and spread to the adjacent printing factory and h...
A Lebanese government agency says an Israeli airstrike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed 13 people and injured several others, marking the deadliest attack in Lebanon since the ceasefire that ended last year’s Israel-Hezbollah conflict.According to Lebanon&rsq...
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UNB, Khulna: Despite the plenty supply of vegetables with the arrival of winter, retail prices of most vegetables in Khulna’s kitchen markets continue to rise, adding pressure on household budgets already strained by increased fish and potato prices.Only a few staples, including green chi...
A high-level delegation from the Government of the Netherlands visited the (Proposed) Dhaka Canals Project site at Kallyanpur Pump Station yesterday, 17 November, marking a significant step toward expanding Dutch–Bangladesh cooperation in urban water management through public–private par...
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A two-day long 'Indigenous Food and Crop Fair-2025' is going to be held in the capital city of Dhaka on November 21 and 22 (Friday and Saturday) on the premises of Parbatya Buddhist Sangha Complex in Mirpur-13 area.Under the joint initiative of development organization Nagorik Udyog and Adiv...
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