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UN Human Rights Office to launch OHCHR fact-finding report on July movement

Dhaka, Feb. 10 -- The UN Human Rights Office will launch the OHCHR fact-finding report titled "Human Rights Violations and Abuses" related to the protests of July and August 2024 in Bangladesh on Febr... Read More


MATS students demonstrate outside Press Club

Dhaka, Feb. 10 -- Students from the Medical Assistants Training School (MATS) have gathered in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka to press home several demands, including employment opportuniti... Read More


EC uncovers evidence of NID data leaks

Dhaka, Feb. 10 -- The Election Commission (EC) has uncovered evidence suggesting that five institutions using National Identity Card (NID) services have leaked sensitive information to third parties. ... Read More


'Operation Devil Hunt': 100 arrested in Gazipur on day 2

Dhaka, Feb. 10 -- One hundred people including former MP Chayan Islam and Gazipur Metropolitan Jubo Mohila League general secretary Anowara Sarkar Anu have been arrested in Gazipur on the second day o... Read More


Mahmudur Rahman cleared in Joy murder plot case

Dhaka, Feb. 10 -- Mahmudur Rahman, the editor of the Amar Desh newspaper, has been acquitted following an appeal against his seven-year sentence in a case involving the alleged "kidnapping and murder"... Read More


Salman, Anisul put on fresh remand

Dhaka, Feb. 10 -- A Dhaka court has placed ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina's former private investment adviser Salman F Rahman, ex-law minister Aniusl Haq and two others on a four-day remand each in a... Read More


Nagorik Committee announces 75-member diaspora panel

Dhaka, Feb. 10 -- Jatiya Nagorik Committee (National Citizens' Committee) has formed a diaspora committee, which includes 75 members from 30 countries. The announcement came six months after fall of ... Read More


NSU launches book on business case studies of Bangladesh

Dhaka, Feb. 10 -- The South Asian Institute of Policy and Governance (SIPG) at North South University (NSU) is set to launch its publication, 'Roots and Routes: Business Pathways in Bangladesh' on Wed... Read More


Dip in industrial output dents FY24 growth to 4.22pc

Dhaka, Feb. 10 -- Industrial output saw a massive plunge from the ousted Sheikh Hasina government's doctored statistics in the FY24 revised export earnings estimation, causing Bangladesh's overall eco... Read More


NPLs in banks may cross 30pc by June

Dhaka, Feb. 10 -- The non-performing loans in Bangladesh's banks may cross 30 per cent of the total outstanding loans by this financial year-end, the central bank predicts in a cautious half-yearly mo... Read More