Bangladesh

Teenage girl ‘gang-raped’ in B’baria

A teenage girl has allegedly been gang-raped at Kalabagan in Ashuganj upazila of Brahmanbaria district. Quoting family members, police said the girl’s mother sent her to buy bread from a

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Fire breaks out at Gazipur RMG factory

A fire broke out at a garment factory named Matrix Style in the Digirchala area of Gazipur Metropolitan City at around 10AM on Saturday. Five units of the Fire Service

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Rainfall likely to increase over next 5 days, says BMD

The Bangladesh Meteorological Department has predicted that rainfall is likely to increase across the country over the next five days commencing 9:00am on Saturday as monsoon is fairly active over

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Prime minister Tarique Rahman, his wife reach Cox’s Bazar on daylong tour

Prime minister Tarique Rahman and his wife Zubaida Rahman arrived in Cox’s Bazar on Saturday morning on a daylong visit to attend a series of development and environmental programmes. Prime

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BCB condemns harassment of cricketer Nayeem in Ctg

The Bangladesh Cricket Board has expressed serious concern and issued a strong condemnation following the harassment and abuse of national team cricketer Nayeem Hasan reportedly by members of a law

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Five people suffer burn injuries in Narayanganj ‘gas cylinder blast’

Five people including four members of a family suffered burn injuries in an explosion apparently from gas cylinder blast at a house at Madanpur in Narayanganj district on Thursday. The

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3 die after mob sets fire to rape-murder suspects’ homes in Pabna

Three people have died from severe burn injuries sustained after an angry mob set fire to the homes of suspects involved in the rape and murder of a teenage girl

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BSF’S PUSH-IN BIDS: Families spend days in sun, rain without food

Scenes of people passing days in no-man’s-land of the Bangladesh-Indian border over the past few days reveal a looming humanitarian crisis fuelled by relentless push-in attempts by the Indian Border

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