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A brick kiln was fined Tk 50,000 for damaging a road by carrying bricks at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Friday morning. The upazila administration conducted a drive, led by the Assistant Commissioner (land) and Upazila Nirbahi Magistrate Shah Jahrul Hossain, in the Duloipara area in the upazila and fined Surma Brikfiled. Shah Jahrul Hossain said that the fine ...

The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) has laid off over 1,000 employees after the United States government decided to halt funding for foreign programs. AKM Tariful Islam Khan, senior manager of communications at icddr,b, confirmed the layoffs on Friday, stating that the affected employees were working on various research projects funded by the US Agency for International ...

BNP leader and former state minister Lutfozzaman Babar has been admitted to a hospital in Dubai after falling critically ill and experiencing breathing difficulties during his Umrah flight. Zakir Hossain, the convener of United Arab Emirates BNP unit, confirmed the information. “Babar along with his wife and three children left Dhaka on Thursday afternoon to perform umrah in Saudi Arabia. ...

President Donald Trump said his 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico are coming on Saturday, but he’s still considering whether to include oil from those countries as part of his import taxes. “We may or may not,” Trump told reporters Thursday in the Oval Office about tariffing oil from Canada and Mexico. “We’re going to make that determination probably tonight.” ...

Chief Adviser’s Press Wing has said the news story of Indian daily Ananda Bazar published today is false one. “Its (Ananda Bazar) story about the Bangladesh army has no more basis in reality than a Bollywood romcom,” the press wing said in a statement posted on its verified Facebook account – CA Press Wing Facts – today. Indian media is ...

A devotee, who came to participate in the Biswa Ijtema, died at the Ijtema venue on Friday. The dead was identified as Abdul Kuddus Gazi, 60, a resident of Dumuria Bazar in Khulna district. Bishwa Ijtema’s coordinator for media cell Habibullah Raihan confirmed the matter and said that Gazi died due to his old age complications.

The students of Government Titumir College have been continuing their hunger strike in front of the college’s main entrance in Mohakhali for the third consecutive day on Friday, demanding university status along with six other demands. Some students from different departments joined the hunger strike on Thursday night with the five students who started the strike on Wednesday afternoon. Joint ...

An allegation has been received against Debashish Chakrabarty Shipon, member of Madhabpur Union Parishad’s ward no-7 under Kamalganj upazila in Moulvibazar district, for taking money from local people in pretext of providing government houses to them. The victim, Rekha Chouhan, a resident of the union, lodged a written complaint with Kamalganj Upazila Nirbahi Officer and Officer-in-Charge of Kamalganj Police Station ...

The first phase of the Bishwa Ijtema has begun with Aam Bayan on the banks of the Turag River in Gazipur’s Tongi. The formalities of the Ijtema began after dawn on Friday (January 31). In the meantime, lakhs of devotees from home and abroad have arrived at the main pandal of the Ijtema ground on the banks of Turag. According ...