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Exporters to lose Tk 14,000cr govt benefits

Bangladesh’s graduation from the least developed country to a developing one in 2026 will bring to an end to the offering of cash benefits worth about Tk 14,000 crore by the

Fakhrul warns against polls disruption

Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday once again accused certain groups of attempting to disrupt the upcoming elections. The BNP had fought for 15 years

As I read literature with SMI

by Abu Jar M Akkas : THE long discussion that I last had with SMI, as Syed Manzoorul Islam was known in the department of English at the University of

Presiding officers to be ‘Chief Election Officer’ of polling centres: CEC

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin on Saturday said that the presiding officer at each polling station will act as the “Chief Election Officer” of that centre, empowered to

US citizen Enayet’s aide Azhar on four-day remand

A Dhaka court on Saturday placed Bangladeshi-origin United States (US) citizen Enayet Karim Chowdhury’s aide Md Azhar Ali Sarkar on a four-day remand in a case filed with Ramna Model

Advisers do not need safe exit: Asif Nazrul

Legal Affairs Adviser Dr Asif Nazrul has said that while many are talking about a “safe exit”, the advisers themselves do not need one. He stressed that the nation needs

BNP leader Ishraque Hossain gets engaged to Nusrat Khan

Engineer Ishraque Hossain, Special Assistant to the BNP Chairperson’s Advisory Committee on Foreign Affairs and son of late undivided Dhaka Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka, has got engaged. The matter was

Police foil Jatiya Party rally at Kakrail

Police foiled a Jatiya Party rally in front of the party’s central office at the capital’s Kakrail on Saturday afternoon. The incident took place around 3:45 pm when, according to