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I want to turn my boys into machines: Stonier

Richard Stonier, the Bangladesh Under-19 cricket team’s strength and conditioning coach, has played a pivotal role in the team’s success, guiding them to two major trophies – the 2020 ICC U-19 World Cup and the U-19 Asia Cup in 2024. In an exclusive interview with ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ·â€™s Tarif Akhlaq, the Englishman reflected on his journey and vision for the future...

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10-Truck Arms Haul: HC acquits Babar, Nizami, 4 others

The High Court on Wednesday acquitted former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and five others and commuted the death sentence of United Liberation Front of Asom leader Paresh Barua to life-term imprisonment in one of two cases filed for 2004 Chattogram 10-truck arms haul...

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Bangladesh women cruise into U-19 Asia Cup Super-4

Bangladesh women's Under-19 cricket team secured crushing 120-run victory over Malaysia in their second Group B match of the U-19 Women's T20 Asia Cup at the Bayuemas Oval in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday and have qualified for the Super Four as group champions.

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Bangladesh women’s U19 team wins on victory day

After the national male team secured a victory against West Indies, Bangladesh Women’s Under-19 team made a good start to the Asia Cup by beating Sri Lanka to give the nation another occasion to exalt on its most auspicious day -Victory Day.

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Victory Day celebrated across Bangladesh

The nation on Monday celebrated the 54th Victory Day amid festivity, paying tribute to the freedom fighters who made supreme sacrifices to free the country from the marauding Pakistani army in the War of Independence in 1971.

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Military Power, Youthful Passion, Moral Resilience: A journey from 1971 to 2024

IN THE quiet spaces between history and memory, where the weight of time presses heavily, there are forces unseen but deeply felt. Military might, cold and calculating, intertwines with the raw, untainted zeal of youth, pulsing with the hope of a future unshackled. From the dust and blood of 1971 to the turbulent echoes of 2024, the struggle for sovereignty...

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Democratic rewrite of constitution

THE call for constitutional change in Bangladesh has intensified, not merely for refinement but as a profound demand for democratic renewal. Reforming the 1972 constitution within its current framework overlooks a critical reality: the document is itself embedded with principles that have enabled authoritarianism rather than safeguarded against it...

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18,000 Indians at risk of deportation in US

Nearly 18,000 undocumented Indians in the United States face the risk of deportation, data revealed ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's January 20th inauguration. According to figures from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 17,940 Indians are among the 1.445 million individuals with final orders of removal...

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Bangladesh women end pool campaign on dismal note

Bangladesh Under-19 women’s hockey team ended their pool campaign in the Women’s Junior Asia Cup on a miserable note as they lost all their Pool A games and will now fight for the ninth-10th place...

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Sumaiya to lead Bangladesh in U-19 Asia Cup

Sumaiya Akter will lead Bangladesh in the inaugural Women’s ACC U-19 Asia Cup as the Bangladesh Cricket Board announced the squad for the tournament on Thursday. 

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Govt should define amnesty in voluntary fake FF doc return

THE government’s announcement for the people who did not take part in the liberation war but have managed to get certificates as 1971 veterans to return their credentials on their own is a welcome step forward towards ensuring justice for the people who took part in the war and for citizens who have so far been led to believe that a number of such people...

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Fake FFs asked to handover certificates voluntarily

Bangladesh interim government Liberation War Affairs adviser Farooq-e-Azam, Bir Pratik on Wednesday asked fake freedom fighters, who managed to get certificates as 1971 veterans to return the credentials voluntarily to evade punitive actions...

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Govt, BCB should do more than basking in U-19 Asia Cup glory

THE Bangladesh Under-19 cricket team retaining the ACC U-19 Asia Cup title with a crushing 59-run win over India in the final on December 8 is, indeed, a feat to relish. The junior Tigers earlier claimed the 2023 title, their maiden title of this tournament, when they defeated host UAE by 195 runs. After being invited to bat first, the junior Tigers faced...

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Keeping faith in bowlers pays off for Jr Tigers

Bangladesh Under-19 cricket team captain Azizul Hakim said that keeping faith in his bowlers paid off in their 59-run victory over India in the ACC U-19 Asia Cup final at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in the UAE on Sunday...

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Bangladesh beat India to retain U-19 Asia Cup title

Bangladesh Under-19 cricket team retained the ACC U-19 Asia Cup title with a crushing 59-run win over their Indian counterparts in the final at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Sunday.

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Bangladesh U-19 reach consecutive final 

Bangladesh Under-19 cricket team thrashed Pakistan by seven wickets in the ACC Under-19 Asia Cup’s semi-final at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Friday to advance to the final for the second consecutive time. 

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HC to fix date for verdict today

The High Court is scheduled for today to fix a date for its verdict on two writ petitions challenging the constitutionality of the 15th amendment to the constitution that scrapped the election-time caretaker government system in 2011 during the Awami League rule...

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Bangladesh lose to SL in final group game

Bangladesh Under-19 cricket team suffered a narrow seven-run defeat against Sri Lanka in their third and final group-stage match of the ACC U-19 Asia Cup at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Tuesday.

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Revisiting Shahbagh events and July-August uprising

THE Shahbagh movement of 2013 and the recent July-August uprising stand as defining chapters in the evolving narrative of Bangladesh’s socio-political history. The two protests, distinct in origins and goals though, explain interwoven paths of public mobilisation, collective memory and the exercise of state power. The Shahbagh movement emerged from a nation’s quest for justice, its rallying cry demanding the...

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End political vengeance: Tarique 

Hours after his acquittal by the High Court in the August 21 grenade attack case, Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Sunday said that the beauty of truth is that...

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Bangladesh U-19 team storms into semi-final

Bangladesh Under-19 cricket team stormed into the semi-finals of the ACC Under-19 Asia Cup with a crushing five-wicket win over Nepal in their second group-stage match at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Sunday.

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Challenges, progress, and the pursuit of lasting peace

THE Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord, popularly known as the ‘Peace Accord,’ was signed on December 2, 1997, between the government and the Parbatya Chattogram Jana Samhati Samiti. It has been widely discussed locally and internationally. The accord ended the 20-year-long, violent conflict and set the stage for inclusive, peaceful, and integrated coexistence between Bengalis and indigenous...