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Home advisor sees no security threat in Dhaka this Eid

Dhaka, March 29 -- Home Affairs Advisor Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has ruled out any security threat in Dhaka surrounding this year's Eid-ul-Fitr holidays. Speaking to reporters on Saturday after an ins... Read More


Trump administration moves to fire remaining USAID staff

Dhaka, March 29 -- Staff at the US Agency for International Development were told on Friday that all positions not required by law would be eliminated, after the State Department notified Congress it ... Read More


Vance accuses Denmark of not keeping Greenland safe from Russia, China

Dhaka, March 29 -- US Vice President JD Vance on Friday accused Denmark of not doing a good job keeping Greenland safe and suggested the United States would better protect the semi-autonomous Danish t... Read More


US judge halts deportation of Turkish student at Tufts

Dhaka, March 29 -- A federal judge in Massachusetts on Friday temporarily barred the deportation of a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, who voiced support for Palestinians in Israel's war ... Read More


Myanmar quake death toll passes 1,600, as junta lets in foreign rescuers

Dhaka, March 29 -- Myanmar's military rulers let in hundreds of foreign rescue personnel on Saturday after an earthquake killed more than 1,600 people, the deadliest natural disaster to hit the impove... Read More


Israel conducts first strike on Beirut's southern suburbs since truce

Dhaka, March 29 -- Israel on Friday carried out its first major airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs in months, retaliating for an earlier rocket launch from Lebanon in the most serious test of a sh... Read More


WHO proposing to cut jobs and slash budget by a fifth, memo shows

Dhaka, March 29 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) is proposing to reduce staff numbers and the scale of its work as it slashes its budget by just over one fifth due to the impact of US funding cu... Read More


At Peking University, Yunus urges students to dream big and change the world

Dhaka, March 29 -- Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus has called on students to dream big and aspire to change the world. "A university or educational institution is not only a place to learn what happens,... Read More


Detective Branch ramps up surveillance in Dhaka ahead of Eid

Dhaka, March 29 -- Rezaul Karim Mallick, chief of the Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), has said that security measures across Dhaka have been intensified with increased po... Read More


A festival's flavour, wrapped and repackaged: The rise of 'corporate vermicelli'

Dhaka, March 29 -- For Bengalis, Eid without vermicelli, or semai, lacks its customary warmth. Once a staple of neighbourhood shops, open or unpackaged vermicelli was a familiar sight, though its pre... Read More