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BNP leaders made administrators of 5 more city corporations

The government on Saturday appointed five leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party as administrators at five more city corporations in the country. The five city corporations are Barishal, Rajshahi, Mymensingh,

Govt begins fulfilling promises before election ink dries: PM Tarique

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has said that the government has already begun implementing the promises made to the people prior to the national election. Speaking at the inauguration of the

Cancellation of trade deal with US demanded

Economist Anu Muhammad on Friday said that the interim government should be tried as people’s enemy for signing the Agreement on Reciprocal Trade with the United States on February 9

Blast rocks Iran, leaders rally in show of defiance

Deadly explosions rocked Tehran close to a pro-government rally attended by top officials Friday, as Israel and Iran unleashed fresh strikes in a war that has ignited the Middle East

Slogans in parliament ‘inappropriate’: speaker

Jatiya Sangsad speaker retired major Hafiz Uddin Ahmed said on Friday that while opposition lawmakers had the democratic right to stage a walkout, chanting slogans inside the parliamentary chamber was

US bombs ‘military targets’ on Iran’s oil hub Kharg Island

President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States had heavily bombed military targets on Iran’s oil hub Kharg Island and the US Navy would soon begin escorting tankers

Condolence motions on war crimes convicts decried

Different political and cultural organisations on Friday protested against the 13th Jatiya Sangsad’s adoption of the condolence motion on war crimes convicts related to the country’s 1971 war of independence.

Iran threatens US-linked oil targets after Trump says Kharg bombed

Iran’s armed forces threatened on Saturday to destroy US-linked oil infrastructure after president Donald Trump said the United States had bombed Iran’s oil hub Kharg Island. The military’s Al-Anbiya Central