- Rains cripple life across country
- Fallen tree halts traffic between Dhaka and northern region
- President off to London for medical checkup
- Steady hand: how to do open-heart surgery in a quake
- IS claims responsibility for Afghan mosque attack
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Rohingya crisis: Foreign interference doesn't work, says China official
Experience shows that foreign interference in crises does not work and China supports the Myanmar government's efforts to protect stability,…
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Rains cripple life across country
Incessant rains across the country triggered by depression in the Bay disrupted people’s lives in the capital and most parts of the country.…
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Fallen tree halts traffic between Dhaka and northern region
Vehicular movement on Dhaka-Rangpur highway has remained halted since Saturday morning as a big tree fallen on the road at Palashbari due to…
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President off to London for medical checkup
President Abdul Hamid left here for London on Saturday for health checkup and treatment of eyes. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines…
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IS claims responsibility for Afghan mosque attack
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in the capital as Afghan officials on Saturday raised…
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Suicide bombers struck two mosques in Afghanistan during Friday prayers, a Shiite… 
BRUSSELS: The EU is to consider stepping up measures aimed at punishing North Korea… 
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy… 
The people exposed to arsenic in Bangladesh may be at higher risk of childhood respiratory tract infection and diarrhoea, says a new study of icddr,b,… 
Even before the completion of the scrutiny of freedom fighters, the Jatiya Muktijoddha Council (Jamuka) has been flooded with appeals from deprived candidates… 
An activist of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti (PCJSS, MN group) was shot dead by some miscreants in Kamolchhari Christianpara area in Sadar upazila on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Samayun Chakma, 45. Major Mujahedul Islam, staff officer of Khagrachhari region, said Samayun… 
A suspected robber was killed and four police officials were injured in a reported gunfight between his cohorts and police at Tigharia village in Kashba upazila early Saturday. The identity of the deceased is yet to be known. Police said some 15/20 masked robbers attacked a patrol team of… 
BNP yesterday termed unconducive the Awami League’s 11-point proposal placed before the Election Commission to fair polls as the party thinks those are framed with a motive to control the election and manipulate its results, reports UNB. “Awami-League’s proposals are not conducive… 
The Awami League (AL) general secretary, Obaidul Quader, has said that BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has been hampering the work of the judiciary by repeatedly seeking time from the court. “It's not true that the court is harassing her [Khaleda], rather she is harassing the court by seeking… 
Ending all speculations, Nazmul Hassan Papon who is all but certain to be elected as the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president for the second… 
A judge on Friday tossed out a $417 million jury award to a woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer by using Johnson &…
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Daylong heavy rain disrupts regular life in the capital yesterday, affecting people from every… 
ROAD, NOT A RIVER: Vehicles slowly wade through a lane of Begum Rokeya Sarani while three… 
The photo taken yesterday in front of the Ideal School and College in the capital’s Motijheel… 
Growers busy nursing chilli plants at a village in Jhenidah yesterday. INDEPENDENT PHOTO 
Pollution linked to one in six deaths
Pollution has been linked to nine million deaths worldwide in 2015, a report in The Lancet has found. Almost all of these deaths occurred in low- and middle-income countries, where pollution could account…
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