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DHAKA : Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today distributed the Begum Rokeya Padak 2025 among four distinguished women in recognition of their contributions to women's education and rights, human rights and women's awakening. Dr Rubhana Rakib, a physician, received the...

DHAKA : Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Adviser Dr Asif Nazrul has refuted the propaganda being carried out on social media over the mobile phone sets of expatriate workers. “Lying about the interim government or about me is nothing new....

DHAKA : A Dhaka court today set January 13 to submit a probe report in the case lodged over the Bangladesh Bank (BB) reserve heist that took place in 2016. Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Jashita Islam set the new...

DHAKA : Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin today informed Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus that the Election Commission (EC) was fully prepared to hold the national polls and the referendum on the same day in the first...

DHAKA : The prosecution at the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 today pleaded for framing charges against 13 people, including ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in a case filed over enforced disappearances and torture at the Joint Interrogation Cell (JIC)...

DHAKA : Disaster Management and Relief Adviser Faruk E Azam, Bir Protik, today received a cheque of Taka 24 lakh from HDFC, Sinpower Ltd on behalf of the Chief Adviser (CA) to assist people affected by recent floods. The donation...

DHAKA : A total of 2,23,471 Bangladeshi expatriates have so far registered through the Postal Vote BD app to vote in the 13th Jatiya Sangsad Election and the national referendum. Election Commission (EC) released the updated information on its website...

DHAKA : The exhumation of 114 unidentified martyrs of the July Uprising has begun at Rayerbazar Graveyard in the capital this morning, as authorities move forward with post-mortem examinations and DNA testing to confirm their identities. The exhumed bodies will...

LOS ANGELES : A powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Saturday shook a mountainous, sparsely populated area straddling the border of the US state of Alaska and Canada's Yukon territory, seismologists said. The temblor at 2041 GMT was followed by more than...

DHAKA : BNP Chairperson's personal physician and BNP Standing Committee Member Dr AZM Zahid Hossain today said that the transfer of BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia to London by an air ambulance for advanced treatment...