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US TAKES NOTE OF CHINESE ENVOY'S COMMENT ON QUAD AND BANGLADESH

The US has taken note of the statement of Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming that Dhaka's relations with Beijing will "substantially get damaged" if it joined Quad, a US-led initiative meant to ensure free and open Indo-Pacific, said Ned Price, US State Department Spokesman, in a media briefing on May 12.

HEFAJAT MAYHEM: EX-JAMAAT MP SHAH JAHAN ON 3-DAY REMAND

Jamaat-e-Islami leader Shah Jahan Chowdhury, also former lawmaker of Chattogram-15, from Satkania upazila of Chattogram has been placed on a three-day remand in a case filed with Hathazari Police Station over Hefajat-e-Islam's mayhem on March 26.

PM says everyone to be brought under vaccine programme

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, while addressing the nation on May 13, assured people that everyone would be brought under the vaccination programme as her government has contacted multiple sources to collect Covid-19 vaccines alongside taking measures to domestically co-produce the jabs.

5 home-goers die after falling ill in the heat

Five people died after they fell sick due to the heat on two overcrowded ferries in Madaripur's Banglabazar on May 12. Eight others fell ill at the same time around yesterday noon, Shibchar Police Station's Officer-in-Charge Miraz Hossain told The Daily Star.