‘KNF member’ arrested in Bandarban
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Fakhrul, Khasru walk out of jail
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Metro rail / Uttara Centre Station to open Feb 18, Mirpur-10 on Mar 1
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9 February 2023 Transport
Metro rail transported 3.35 lakh commuters since opening
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31 January 2023 Transport
PM Sheikh Hasina reaches Rajshahi’s Sardah
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29 January 2023 Bangladesh
'15th NDF BD National Debate Carnival 23' set to begin on Feb 24
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17 January 2023 Online
Masum elected president, Nannu GS of Bangladesh Jubo Union
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14 January 2023 Politics
Russian ship with Rooppur power plant materials docks at Indian port
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10 January 2023 Diplomacy
The Daily Star reporter wins Asia Foundation-IED Media fellowship
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Malaysia-bound trawler capsizes; bodies of 3 Rohingyas recovered, 46 rescued
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4 October 2022 Rohingya Influx

Facebook video reunites family after 48 years

Habibur Rahman was 30 years old when he left home for a business trip and never returned.
18 January 2020

Govt bus service for school students to be launched in Ctg

Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) is going to launch 10 buses for the students of Chattogram next week.
18 January 2020

Actress Shabana Azmi injured in road accident

Renowned Bollywood actress Shabana Azmi is injured in an accident on the Mumbai-Pune Express Highway.
18 January 2020

EVM a tool for robbing votes: Oikyafront

Jatiya Oikyafront urges the Election Commission to change its stance of using the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in the Dhaka north and south city corporation elections scheduled for January 30.
18 January 2020

Extra-judicial killings in Bangladesh much lower than in US: Momen

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen says that the instances of extra-judicial killings are much lower in number in Bangladesh compared to the developed countries like the United States.
18 January 2020

Man arrested for raping 6-year-old

A six-year-old is allegedly raped by a security guard of a residential building in Dhaka’s Shahjahanpur area.
18 January 2020

Prepaid mobile connections restored in Jammu and Kashmir

After nearly six months, prepaid mobile phone connections are restored in Jammu and Kashmir.
18 January 2020

EC has complicated the situation: CPB mayoral aspirant Rubel

Dhaka North City Corporation mayoral candidate Ahammad Sajedul Huq Rubel has alleged that the Election Commission has “complicated the situation” by not deferring the election date that coincides with Saraswati Puja.
18 January 2020

Khagendra Thapa, world’s shortest man, dies

Khagendra Thapa Magar, who had entered the Guinness Book of World Records for being the shortest man in the world, passes away at Manipal Teaching Hospital in Pokhara, Nepal.
18 January 2020

Dhaka city polls date changed to Feb 1

Election Commission defers the Dhaka city elections date to February 1, following increasing pressure from different quarters including the Hindu community and Dhaka university students.
18 January 2020

4 killed, 1 injured in family shooting in Utah suburb

Four members of a family are killed and one is injured in a shooting in a Salt Lake City suburb.
18 January 2020

Midday Brief, Saturday, January 18, 2020

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on January 18, 2020
18 January 2020

Virus casts shadow over China's biggest festival

Health authorities are concerned that a virus originating in central China could spread when hundreds of millions of Chinese travel during next week's lunar new year festival, but residents said there were was little anxiety in the city at the epicentre.
18 January 2020

City polls: Minority rights body cancels weeklong demo

Bangladesh Hindu-Bouddha-Christian Oikya Parishad withdraws its weeklong countrywide demonstration programme over deferral of the date of the city polls.
18 January 2020

3 DU teachers express solidarity with students on hunger strike

Three Dhaka University teachers expresses solidarity with the students, who are on hunger strike since Thursday, demanding deferral of Dhaka north and south city corporation elections as January 30 coincides with Saraswati Puja.
18 January 2020

30 hurt as bus falls into ditch in Cox’s Bazar

At least 30 passengers of a picnic bus are injured after the vehicle fell into a ditch on the Chattogram-Cox's Bazar highway in Ramu upazila.
18 January 2020

China, Myanmar ‘stand together’ despite Rohingya backlash

China and Myanmar ink dozens of mammoth infrastructure and trade deals after a meeting between President Xi Jinping and fallen rights icon Aung San Suu Kyi, as Beijing doubles down on its support for a government under fire for its treatment of Rohingya Muslims.
18 January 2020

DU students call off hunger strike

Dhaka University students call off their hunger strike after the Election Commission deferred the Dhaka city corporations’ polls date to February 1.
18 January 2020

3 of a family die as car crashes into electric pole in Jashore

Three members of a family are killed and two others injured as a private car carrying them hit a roadside electric pole in Jashore town.
18 January 2020

Experts warn over scale of China virus

The true scale of the outbreak of a mysterious SARS-like virus in China is likely far bigger than officially reported, scientists have warned, as countries ramp up measures to prevent the disease from spreading.
18 January 2020