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PM Sheikh Hasina reaches Rajshahi’s Sardah
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10 January 2023
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The Daily Star reporter wins Asia Foundation-IED Media fellowship
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Onion import: Biman to waive its cargo handling charge
Biman Bangladesh Airlines will waive its cargo handling charge for any airlines that will carry imported onion for the sake of public interest.
20 November 2019
Rajdhani Super Market fire under control
A fire that broke out at Rajdhani Super Market at Tikatuli in Dhaka has been brought under control.
20 November 2019
CU suspends student for beating up visually impaired student
An activist of Chhatra League unit of Chittagong University (CU) has been suspended for beating up a visually impaired student on the campus.
20 November 2019
Nusrat video: Verdict against suspended Sonagazi OC Moazzem Nov 28
A tribunal in Dhaka will deliver verdict on November 28 in a case filed against suspended police official Moazzem Hossain over filming statement of Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi and circulating the video on social media.
20 November 2019
Train tragedy: Turna Nishita loco master, asst loco master, guard responsible
Brahmanbaria train tragedy took place due to the negligence of Loco master, assistant loco master and guard of intercity train Turna Nishita Express. Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan reveals the findings based on three probe reports.
20 November 2019
Midday Brief, Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Hello dear readers! How are you doing today?
Here are the news headlines so far on November 20, 2019
20 November 2019
Govt gives due importance to promote tennis: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her government has given due importance to the expansion of other games like tennis alongside football and cricket.
20 November 2019
Write post-mortem reports in clear handwriting: HC to doctors
The High Court (HC) today orders the doctors concerned to write the post-mortem reports of killing incidents in clear hand-writing and add a typed-copy so that it can be read easily.
20 November 2019
Onion, salt price hike failure of govt: Fakhrul
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said the crisis of salt and onion is the outcome of government’s failure.
20 November 2019
‘Reconciliation critical for resolving Rohingya crisis’
Bangladesh has said it believes reconciliation can be a critical enabler for resolving the Rohingya humanitarian crisis, the brunt of which they are bearing.
20 November 2019
No reason to hike rice prices: Minister
Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder has warned against increasing rice prices, saying the country has an adequate stockpile of food grain.
20 November 2019
PBI gets 2 months more for further probe in 30-yr-old murder case
The High Court (HC) gives two months more time to Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to complete further investigation of a 30-year-old murder case.
20 November 2019
Fossil fuel polluters from US to China far off climate targets: UN
The world's major fossil fuel producers are set to bust global environmental goals with excessive coal, oil and gas extraction in the next decade, the United Nations and research groups said on Wednesday in the latest warning over climate crisis.
20 November 2019
‘Drug peddler’ killed in Hajaribagh ‘gunfight’
An alleged drug dealer has been killed in “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Hajaribagh area of Dhaka.
20 November 2019
Vehicular movements on Dhaka-Sylhet, Dhaka-Ctg highways resume
Expressing solidarity to the indefinite work stoppage of a section of transport owners and workers, workers of Narayanganj join the strike protesting the enforcement of the Road Transport Act 2018.
20 November 2019
Strike: Goods transport halted at Chattogram port
Transport of goods and containers to and from Chattogram port has been halted due to a countrywide work abstention enforced by a section of transport workers and owners.
20 November 2019
Kamal seeks more Turkish investment in Bangladesh
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has sought more Turkish investment in Bangladesh’s various sectors as he attended the first day of the Bangladesh-Turkey Joint Economic Commission meeting in Ankara, an official release says.
20 November 2019
Hitler birth house in Austria to become police station
The house where Adolf Hitler was born will be turned into a police station, Austria's interior ministry announces, after years of legal wrangling as the government looks to prevent the building from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.
20 November 2019
Drug dealer killed in ‘gunfight’ with Rab in Dhaka
An alleged drug dealer has been killed in “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Hajaribagh area of Dhaka.
20 November 2019
PM returns home from UAE
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returns home from Dubai wrapping up her four-day official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after attending Dubai Air Show-2019 and other programmes.
19 November 2019