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UK-EU medical team in Sylhet to provide free treatment

Sylhet, Sept. 29 -- A team of doctors from the United Kingdom and several European Union countries has arrived in Sylhet to provide free medical treatment, as part of a humanitarian initiative by the ... Read More


Islami Bank faces mayhem over competency test amid recruitment allegations

, Sept. 29 -- Islami Bank Bangladesh is currently facing an internal crisis following a mandatory special competency assessment examination for a large number of its employees, most of whom were alleg... Read More


Hilsa catching, sales banned for 22 days from Oct 4

, Sept. 29 -- The government has announced a nationwide 22-day ban, effective from October 4 to 25 this year, on catching, transporting, marketing, and storing hilsa, aiming to protect brood fish duri... Read More


India decline Asia Cup trophy from ACC chief

Dhaka, Sept. 29 -- India defeated Pakistan to retain their Asia Cup crown but declined to accept the trophy from Pakistan's interior minister and Asian Cricket Council (ACC) President Mohsin Naqvi, br... Read More


MJF event takes stock of progress towards gender equality

, Sept. 29 -- The working women will get legal rights to take their children to the workplace, said Planning Adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud on Monday. "The working women will soon have the legal right to ... Read More


Farakka Committee urges alarm over successive floods,drought in the Teesta Basin

Dhaka, Sept. 29 -- The International Farakka Committee on Monday urged the government of Bangladesh to raise alarm over the issue of repeated floods and drought in the Teesta basin in Bangladesh due t... Read More


114 bank accounts of ex-law minister's PS frozen

Dhaka, Sept. 29 -- A Dhaka court on Monday ordered the freezing of 114 bank accounts held in the name of Taufika Karim, former personal secretary to jailed ex-Law Minister Anisul Huq. Senior Special ... Read More


Bus torched after running over teenager in Sirajganj

Sirajganj, Sept. 29 -- A bus was set on fire on Monday in Kazipur upazila of Sirajganj district following the death of a 15-year-old cyclist under its wheels. The accident occurred around 12:45pm in ... Read More


Central Bank mandates banks to report private sector foreign loans at CIB database

Dhaka, Sept. 29 -- Bangladesh Bank (BB) has made it mandatory for all banks and financial institutions to report private sector foreign loans, including suppliers' credit, to the central bank's Credit... Read More


UP member lynched over alleged extortion in N'ganj

, Sept. 29 -- A member of local Union Parishad, was reportedly killed in lynch-mob attack while allegedly collecting extortion at Baliapara Bazar in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj district on Monday... Read More