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33 BGB platoons deployed in key industrial hubs

Dhaka, Nov. 8 -- Thirty-three platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been stationed across key industrial corridors in Dhaka, Gazipur, and Narayanganj in the wake of recent unrest in the ready... Read More


Protesters blockade rail, roads in Brahmanbaria

Dhaka, Nov. 8 -- Locals have blocked railway lines and roads in protest against the formation of a new union in Brahmanbaria's Akhaura Upazila from six villages in the Sadar Upazila. Protesters block... Read More


Doctor dies as rickshaw-van overturns in Kuakata

Dhaka, Nov. 8 -- A physician has been killed and her husband injured after a motorised rickshaw-van overturned in Patuakhali's Kuakata. The accident occurred around 6pm on Saturday en route to the Mi... Read More


Cases filed at two police stations over same 'July death'

Dhaka, Nov. 8 -- Following the death of garment worker Nazmul Mia, who was fatally shot in Ashulia during Bangladesh's July Uprising, his family lodged a murder case at Ashulia Police Station. Nearly... Read More


Judge orders Paraguay's ex-president Pena held

Dhaka, Nov. 8 -- A Paraguayan judge on Saturday ordered former President Santiago Peña held in pretrial detention at a military facility while prosecutors investigate his ties to digital lender u... Read More


Poland in shock after 6 die in Krakow mass shooting

Dhaka, Nov. 8 -- A Polish gunman likely influenced by far-right ideology killed six people in the main square of the southern city of Krakow before police shot and arrested him, officials said on Satu... Read More


Daffodil VC MR Kabir elected full member of IAU

Dhaka, Nov. 8 -- Prof MR Kabir, vice-chancellor of Daffodil International University (DIU), has been elected as a full member of the Administrative Board of the International Association of Universiti... Read More


Preacher Farooqi murder: Case against 6 goes to trial

Dhaka, Nov. 8 -- A decade after the killing of Islamic Front leader and Islamic television programme host Nurul Islam Farooqi, a Dhaka court has ordered a case over his murder and robbery to trial. O... Read More


Rail, road blockades lifted in Brahmanbaria after 5 hours

Dhaka, Nov. 8 -- After receiving assurances of a solution, protesters have withdrawn a blockade of the railway tracks and roads in Brahmanbaria's Akhaura Upazila after five hours. They withdrew the b... Read More


Fire on bus at Mohakhali

Dhaka, Nov. 8 -- A Shohag Paribahan bus parked at Dhaka's Mohakhali bus terminal has caught fire, the second such incident in the capital in a single night. The fire broke out shortly before 1am on S... Read More