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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

Judge halts Trump administration efforts to impose conditions on SNAP

A federal judge on Friday sided with 20 Democratic states and halted an effort by the Trump administration to force states to comply with a range of conditions to get

CPD flags mounting economic challenges amid revenue shortfalls, inflation, banking stress

Bangladesh is facing mounting economic challenges as weak revenue collection, persistent inflation, banking sector fragility and rising energy costs weigh on the economy, the Centre for Policy Dialogue said on

New 151-member Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal committee announced

Abdul Monayem Munna has been named president and Mohammad Nurul Islam Nayan general secretary of the 151-member national executive committee of the Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal. BNP senior joint general