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Chittagong Port at a standstill as strike enters fourth day

Dhaka, Feb. 3 -- The strike by Chittagong Port workers and employees in protest against the lease of the New Mooring Container Terminal (NCT) to a foreign company has entered its fourth day. The 24-h... Read More


Bangladesh export earnings fall for sixth consecutive month since August

Dhaka, Feb. 3 -- Bangladesh's earnings from goods and services exports have fallen for the sixth month in a row compared with the same period a year earlier. Latest figures reveal that the country ea... Read More


Bangladesh Bank rolls out redesigned Tk 10 note featuring July Uprising graffiti

Dhaka, Feb. 3 -- Bangladesh Bank has introduced a new design for the Tk 10 banknote, featuring imagery from last year's July Uprising alongside its earlier design of the Baitul Mukarram National Mosqu... Read More


Election code violations lead to 176 cases, over Tk 1.8mn in fines

Dhaka, Feb. 3 -- Field-level officials of the Election Commission (EC) have lodged 176 cases and imposed fines totalling Tk 1.83 million for violations of the electoral code of conduct in the run-up t... Read More


Nearly 465,000 expatriates vote, 195,000 postal ballots reach Bangladesh so far

Dhaka, Feb. 2 -- Almost 465,000 expatriate Bangladeshis have cast their votes by post, with around 195,000 ballots so far reaching Bangladesh, according to the Election Commission (EC). Salim Ahmad K... Read More


Court orders arrest of singer Noble, four others over 'embezzlement'

Dhaka, Feb. 2 -- A Dhaka court has issued an arrest warrant against singer Mainul Ahsan Noble, his mother, wife, and two others in a case that accuses them of embezzling Tk 1.3 million. Dhaka Metropo... Read More


Yunus urges Muslims to illuminate national life by avoiding injustice on Shab-e-Barat

Dhaka, Feb. 2 -- Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus has called on Muslims to embrace Islam's "unique beauty" by avoiding all forms of injustice and wrongdoing, and to illuminate the national life through ri... Read More


TIB reports BNP involvement in majority of political violence over past 1.5 years

Dhaka, Feb. 2 -- Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has reported that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) was involved in 550 of the 600 incidents of political violence recorded during the... Read More


Biman MD, wife sent to jail over 'abusing' domestic child worker

Dhaka, Feb. 2 -- Biman Bangladesh Airlines Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Shafiqur Rahman, his wife, and two others have been arrested in a child domestic worker abuse case and sent to ... Read More


Zubaida inaugurates 'free heart camp' at Mohakhali's Korail slum

Dhaka, Feb. 2 -- Zubaida Rahman, a cardiologist and the wife of BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman, has inaugurated a free heart health camp in the Korail slum area of Dhaka's Mohakhali on Monday. The healt... Read More