- Adilur barred from entering Malaysia
- Tahsan–Mithila to get divorced
- Students clash with police at Shahbagh demanding exam dates
- Ram Nath Kovind elected new President of India with 65% votes
- 5 members of ‘rapist gang’ held in city
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BTRC issues Order of Merger of Licence
The telecom regulator Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has issued the Order of Merger of Licence for Robi and Airtel…
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608 in jails sans trial for more than 5 yrs
The numbers of under-trial prisoners are on the rise with a total of 608 prisoners languishing in 60 jails for over five years across the country…
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PDB negligence delays work, says report
Although three years have passed since its approval, implementation of the main project of the 1,200MW Matarbari Ultra Super Critical Coal-based…
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Central, southern regions at risk of fresh floods
The improving flood situation in the northern region may spell fresh floods in the central region and even in some southern spots as the receding…
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Hajj agencies buy low-quality trolley bags for pilgrims
Over Tk. 16 crore of pilgrims’ money is likely to go to waste this year as the Hajj agencies are buying low-quality trolley bags, despite…
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India’s stand in its border dispute with China is supported by other countries,… 
At least 33 people were killed in clashes between cattle herders and farmers… 
US Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war and the maverick 2008 Republican… 
Further treatment of Muktamoni, suffering from a mysterious disease, would depend on normal ‘platelet’ level in her blood cell, reports BSS.… 
A female councilor of Barisal City Corporation (BCC) was arrested by Kotwali thana police from her house in the city yesterday. She was identified as… 
Adilur Rahman Khan, the secretary of Odhikar, a human rights organisation was barred from entering Malaysia. According to the Press release issued by Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM), a civil society organisation in the country, Adilur was detained by Malaysian Immigration at Kuala Lumpur International… 
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Shipping Ministry on Thursday recommended the government to establish separate court against river pollution and encroachment. It also asked the government to take necessary measures so that the Department of Environment can shut down the companies that pollute… 
BNP chairperson's adviser Joynal Abedin Farroque was freed from jail on bail on Thursday. Farroque walked out of Dhaka Central Jail, Keraniganj around 12:40pm after the bail order reached the jail authorities. BNP leaders and activists received him at the jail gate, Farroque himself told UNB. On… 
Accusing the government of continuing its repressive acts to eliminate its opponents, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said the ruling party has even 'outshined German dictator Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party in carrying out brutalities'. "The ruling party men… 
The BCB will not extend Thilan Samaraweera's contract as Bangladesh's batting consultant beyond the Champions Trophy, the board's… 
Preliminary government economic growth estimates in Bangladesh for FY2017 (ended June 30, 2017) beat the forecasts of Asian Development…
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Professor Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled
Three weeks into the fire that devastated the Gabtoli cattle market in the capital, the authorities… 
Nourin Jahan Nodi, the employer of young housemaid Aduri who was brutally tortured in 2013,… 
Workers seen busy in the development of a road in Jurain area of the capital yesterday. INDEPENDENT… 
Students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) continue their hunger strike yesterday demanding… 
Earth is becoming 'Planet Plastic'
US scientists have calculated the total amount of plastic ever made and put the number at 8.3 billion tonnes. It is an astonishing mass of material that has essentially been created only in the last 65…
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