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AL starts sale of nomination forms for reserved seats

The ruling Awami League (AL) has stared the sale of forms for reserved seats for women in the parliament. It will be continued till Thursday (February 8). According to a media release, the aspirants will be able to collect and submit the forms between 10 am and 4 pm every day during this period. Forms for all divisions will have ...

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114 more Myanmar border guards fled to Bangladesh

One hundred and fourteen more members of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) and army personnel took shelter in Bangladesh on Tuesday morning amid ongoing conflict in their country. With the new members, the number of Myanmar force, who have taken refuge in Bangladesh, rose to 229. Shariful Islam, public relations officer of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), said they have been ...

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4 killed being hit by BRTC bus in Dinajpur

At least four people were killed when a BRTC bus ran over an auto van in Dinajpur’s Chirirbandar upazila on Tuesday morning. The accident happened around 7:30 am in Ranirbandar area under the upazila. The deceased were van driver Nazrul Islam Naju, 45, a resident o Plan Bazar area under Khansama Upazila in Dinajpur, Abdul Majid, 50, of Plan Bazar ...

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PM Sheikh Hasina for taking action against extortionists to keep commodity prices stable

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has instructed Secretaries to take stern action against extortionists to keep the price of essential commodities under control in the upcoming Holy Ramadan. The premier made the instruction after the meeting with Secretaries at the Prime Minister’s Office on Monday as well as sought cooperation from them in implementing the election manifesto of the Awami League ...

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New DG of BGB takes charge

Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui on Monday joined as Director General (DG) of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB). He took the charge from outgoing BGB chief Major General AKM Nazmul Hasan in the afternoon, said a press release here. Siddiqui served as director of Military Training and chairman of Army Sports Control Board prior to his new assignment. The government ...

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Won’t put steps into any trap: Quader says on Myanmar issue

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has said Bangladesh will not put steps into any trap, no matter how much provocation comes from Myanmar. “No matter how much provocation comes from Myanmar, Bangladesh will not put steps into any trap. We do not want any war. Bangladesh wants to bring solutions through discussion,”  he said at a press conference held ...

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Education Minister decides not to visit SSC exams centre

Education Minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury has decided that considering the mental state of the students he will not visit the examination centres during the Secondary School Certificate examinations, which is scheduled to begin on February 15. A statement published on Monday stated that the minister said when authorities visited the examinations centres a stressful situation is created for the students ...

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Mirza Abbas gets bail in 6 cases

A Dhaka court has granted bail to BNP Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas in six separate cases. Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Md Sultan Sohag Uddin on Monday passed the order after a hearing, said Mohiuddin Chowdhury, a lawyer of Mirza Abbas. Meanwhile, on Thursday, the BNP leader was shown arrested in nine separate cases filed with Ramna and Paltan Model ...

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SC upholds HC order on ex-Hefazat leader Mamunul’s bail

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday upheld a High Court’s order granting bail to Mamunul Haque, the former Joint Secretary General of Hefazat-e-Islam, in two cases over vandalism of an Awami League office in Narayanganj’s Sonargaon upazila about three years ago. A six member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan passed the ...

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‘Process underway to send back BGP men to Myanmar’

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Monday said process to send back 14 Border Guard Police (BGP) of Myanmar are underway who fled their country due to heavy gunfights there. “They are now in the custody of Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) and process is underway to send them back to Myanmar through foreign ministry, but none should come here,” he ...

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