News Category: Bangladesh
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BNP Standing Committee member and Prime Minister’s Adviser Mirza Abbas is set to return home next Wednesday after receiving medical treatment in Singapore and Malaysia for several months.BNP Media Cell member Shayrul Kabir Khan confirmed the matter o…
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Rakhine State in Myanmar, once known as Arakan, is much more than a neighbouring border region for Bangladesh. History, people, trade, security, displacement and geopolitics have connected this land with Bangladesh in many ways. Over the past two dec…
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Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has said enforced disappearance is one of the most heinous crimes in the world and the gravest violation of human rights. The current government has launched investigations and legal proceedings into every case of enforc…
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A private-sector employee went to a bank branch in Karwan Bazar in the capital to urgently send money home to cover a relative’s medical expenses. At the branch, customers must use a Cash Recycling Machine (CRM) for transactions involving deposits of…
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Alongside demands for implementing reforms, the opposition has adopted a strategy of taking an aggressive stance in parliament on issues that directly affect people, including gas and electricity shortages and the law-and-order situation.This became …
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Questions have arisen over how a force can be identified as the accused at the very outset of an enforced disappearance investigation.The international convention on enforced disappearance calls for full and impartial investigations.There has been no…
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Prime Minister Tarique Rahman today asked for measures to shift Fulbaria Bus Terminal to Keraniganj, relocate the Kawran Bazar kitchen market to Gabtoli and introduce Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) on the expressway toll plazas to ease traffic cong…
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The cost of constructing metro rail on two routes in Dhaka is set to more than double. The initial estimated cost of the two projects was Tk 938 billion. A new proposal has now been prepared with a cost of Tk 2.13985 trillion. The proposal for the ad…
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The schedule for the Union Parishad (UP) elections has not yet been announced. However, potential BNP candidates have already begun preparing for the polls. Even before receiving instructions from the party’s central leadership, they have started cam…
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A rather old, dilapidated building standing in Mugda, Dhaka. Worn down at the edges, the kind of place where paint peels quietly and nobody rushes to fix it.The ground floor is a maze of narrow, dark alleys of dimly lit rooms and the air there feels …