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UK’s Indo-Pacific minister arrives to strengthen ties with Bangladesh

UK’s Indo-Pacific Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan arrived in Dhaka on Friday (March 10, 2023) to discuss security, democracy, human rights, trade and the Rohingya crisis. Trevelyan will meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen as well as hold talks with civil society organisations, humanitarian actors, climate experts, and business groups, report agencies. As Bangladesh continues its development ...

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Decision on affected Gulistan building to be taken after 45 days

The decision on the affected Gulistan building will be taken after 45 days, said a member of the RAJUK probe committee on Friday morning. The rescue operation of Fire Service and Civil Defence has been stopped at the six-storey Gulistan building in the capital on Friday morning. But the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) authority is carrying out propping work at ...

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Medical admission test held without any difficulty: Health Minister

Without any problem, the medical admission test was held, said Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque. Committee was formed involving expert physicians for the examination. They (physicians) have formulated question papers. And the question papers were sent to each examination centre after tracking and using digital system. The minister came up with the information after visiting an exam centre at Dhaka ...

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British academics, journalists hail Bangabandhu’s historic 7 March Speech as ‘Magna Carta’ of Bangladesh Independence

  Bangladesh High Commission, London marked the historic 7 March by hosting a high-profile panel discussion titled “Contemporary Thoughts on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib’s Historic 7 March Speech: A UNESCO Documentary Heritage” at the mission’s Bangabandhu Lounge on Tuesday where speakers observed that the Speech delivered by Bangladesh’s Founding Father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on 7 March 1971 is considered as ...

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Make life-oriented movies to change society: PM Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked the filmmakers to produce life-oriented decent movies to keep the people away from wrongdoings and offenses in the society. “The life-oriented arts and cinemas attract the people much. The reason is that the people get the reflection of their own life from there. A cinema can change the life of a person or ...

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Momen denounces 40 world leaders’ appeal for Prof Yunus

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Thursday questioned intentions of some people who are talking against Bangladesh and its leader Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, noting that to them “grapes are sour.” “It does not matter much. It’s unrealistic and not objective,” he told reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when a reporter sought his comment on an appeal by ...

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No foreign pressure over national election: Law Minister

Law Minister Anisul Huq on Thursday said that there is no foreign pressure on the government about the upcoming national election. “If foreigners want to know (about election), we don’t mind telling them about it as we do not do politics of killings or lies. We don’t hide anything, so we have no objection and no hesitation to let the ...

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Afroza Haque takes oath as MP

Reserved seat MP-elect (Woman seat-50) Afroza Haque took oath as a member of the 11th Parliament today. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered the swearing-in at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. Parliament Secretariat’s Senior Secretary K M Abdus Salam conducted the oath-taking ceremony. Deputy Speaker Shamsul Haque, Whip Iqbalur Rahim and lawmakers Shirin Akhter and Wasika Ayesha Khan were present at ...

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Gulistan blast: Another dies, death toll rises to 22

Gulistan building explosion death toll has risen to 22 as another burn victim succumbed to his injuries on Thursday. Md Yasin Arafat, 26, succumbed at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery while he was undergoing treatment there. With this, the death toll from the explosion has risen to 22. Dr Samanta ...

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Japanese mother can’t take children abroad: SC

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered to maintain the status quo on taking the two Japanese children of Bangladesh-born US citizen Imran Sharif and Japanese national Nakano Erico out of the country. A seven-member bench of the Appellate Division, led by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique, passed the order and asked the authorities concerned to dispose ...

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