A Dhaka court yesterday appointed administrators to look after some of the immovable properties of Benazir Ahmed and his family members.
The Indian Border Security Force yesterday seized 41.49kg gold worth Rs 21.22 crore from five bags left behind by suspected smugglers near Benapole, reportedly the biggest gold haul by Indian security forces along the Indo-Bangladesh border.
Bangladeshis were found to be the highest number of irregular migrants reaching the shores of Italy in the first six months of this year.
Police in Manikganj are trying to arrest five men accused of raping a schoolgirl.
A 25-year-old tourist drowned and two others were injured while bathing in the Nikli haor in Kishoreganj yesterday morning.
Two patients with Covid-19 died and at least 620 new Covid-19 cases were recorded by the health directorate in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.
The Indian Border Security Force yesterday seized 41.49kg gold worth Rs 21.22 crore from five bags left behind by suspected smugglers near Benapole, reportedly the biggest gold haul by Indian security forces along the Indo-Bangladesh border.
Sri Lankan security forces raided and partially cleared the main protest camp occupying government grounds in Colombo early yesterday, fuelling fears that President Ranil Wickremesinghe had launched a crackdown a day after being sworn in.
BNP National Executive Committee member and former lawmaker KM Hemayet Ullah Auranga and five others were killed when his car collided head-on with a bus on Dhaka-Mawa highway in Louhajang yesterday.
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The festivity of Eid-ul-Fitr is likely to be marred this year because of political instability as Jamaat has called two-day countrywide shutdown immediately after the Muslims' biggest festival.
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Despite government efforts to improve the overall standard of education in the country, rural institutions still lag far behind their urban counterparts in terms of results in public examinations.
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday blamed the opposition political parties for what she termed "poor" and "unexpected" results of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations this year.
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Limon Hossain scored GPA 4.0 in his HSC exams, despite suffering trauma from an amputated leg for being shot wrongly by Rab men and battling false cases against them for the past two years.
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Salon owner Shizuka Bernstein gives what she calls a Geisha Facial to Mari Miyoshi at Shizuka New York skin care in New York. Photo: AP
Cambodia's opposition party has agreed to work with the government to probe alleged election fraud, the party said yesterday, in an apparent step towards ending a political impasse since last week's disputed poll.
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A Zimbabwean election commissioner has resigned, citing doubts about the integrity of results showing a big win for President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party but dismissed as a fraud-riddled farce by his main challenger.
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