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Israel, Iran trade fire despite Trump’s call for restraint

Israel and Iran traded fire on Monday, seriously testing a fragile truce and threatening hopes for a deal to end the Middle East war. The new attacks, including a strike

BGB-BSF summit begins amid Indian push-in bids

The 57th four-day director general-level talks between the Border Guard Bangladesh and the Indian Border Security Force begins today in India’s capital New Delhi amid a face-off between the two

Speaker cautions energy minister over missed Ashuganj gas supply deadline

Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmad cautioned the power, energy and mineral resources minister, Iqbal Hassan Mahmood, on Sunday to thoroughly assess all relevant factors before making commitments in the Jatiya Sangsad.

Seven more children die from measles symptoms in 24 hours

Seven more children died across Bangladesh from measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours till 8:00am on Sunday, raising the fatalities from the disease in Bangladesh to 620. The Directorate General

Sohel, Swapna sentenced to death in Pallabi child rape-murder case

The Dhaka Metropolitan Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal on Sunday sentenced Sohel Rana and his wife Swapna Akter to death in a case of killing an eight-year-old girl after

Turkish FM Hakan Fidan meets with Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman

Visiting Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan paid a courtesy call on prime minister Tarique Rahman on Saturday and discussed issues of mutual cooperation between the two countries. The meeting was

BNP should start practising in-party democracy

THE Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s prolonged failure to hold regular councils has created a democratic deficit within the organisation, frustrating grass-roots activists and concentrating decision-making power in the hands of a

Trump says Iran may have ‘22 per cent’ of missiles left

Iran still has ‘21, 22 per cent’ of its missiles left, United States president Donald Trump said Friday, in a week in which Tehran fired dozens of them toward regional