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Pakistan pushes new South Asian bloc without India. Can it succeed?

Dhaka, Dec. 6 -- Pakistan has proposed expanding an emerging trilateral initiative with Bangladesh and China into a wider regional bloc that excludes India, a move it has pitched as a fresh model of c... Read More


Zubaida arrives at Evercare Hospital to see Khaleda

Dhaka, Dec. 5 -- Zubaida Rahman has arrived at Dhaka's Evercare Hospital to see her ailing mother-in-law, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. The convoy carrying Zubaida arrived at the hospital in the Bashu... Read More


Zubaida Rahman visits Khaleda Zia in hospital, goes to family home

Dhaka, Dec. 5 -- Zubaida Rahman has gone to her family home in Dhanmondi after arriving in Dhaka from London and visiting her mother-in-law BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in hospital. She left Evercare ... Read More


Costlier cooking oil hits Dhaka markets despite government warning

Dhaka, Dec. 5 -- Soybean oil is being sold at higher prices in Dhaka markets despite traders receiving a show-cause notice from the authorities after announcing new rates without government approval. ... Read More


BNP leaders, activists wait outside Evercare Hospital to welcome Zubaida Rahman

Dhaka, Dec. 5 -- BNP leaders and activists have gathered in front of Evercare Hospital to welcome Zubaida Rahman, who has travelled to Dhaka to accompany her mother-in-law and BNP Chairperson Khaleda ... Read More


No more running after international lenders if BNP elected, says Khosru

Dhaka, Dec. 5 -- BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury has said if elected, a BNP government will introduce a new economic and financing model to create 10 million jobs within 18 ... Read More


CU student's hanging body recovered from Ctg flat

Dhaka, Dec. 5 -- A student of Chittagong University has been found dead at a flat in the port city in an apparent suicide. Omar Faruk Sumon, a student in the university's Arabic Department from the 2... Read More


Zubaida Rahman arrives in Dhaka

Dhaka, Dec. 5 -- Zubaida Rahman, the wife of Tarique Rahman and daughter-in-law of BNP chief Khaleda Zia, has arrived in Dhaka. She landed at Dhaka's Shahjalal International Airport on board a Biman ... Read More


Khaleda Zia's condition unchanged, Zubaida back at hospital

Dhaka, Dec. 5 -- BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's health remains unchanged, according to doctors. Her daughter-in-law Zubaida Rahman again visited her at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka on Friday night after... Read More


NCP again pushes EC to factor Khaleda's illness into election timeline

Dhaka, Dec. 5 -- The National Citizen Party (NCP) has renewed calls for the Election Commission to factor in the critical illness of BNP chief Khaleda Zia when finalising the schedule for the general ... Read More