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British Council concludes Varendra Museum training

The British Council in partnership with the United Kingdom’s department for culture, media, and sport organised a closing ceremony for the four-month Varendra Research Museum training programme at the Varendra Research Museum in Rajshahi on Tuesday...

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Fleeting Moments depicts symbolism of flowers

The United Kingdom based Bangladeshi artist Zahura Sultana depicted the beauty and symbolism of flowers in her solo art exhibition titled Fleeting Moments at Abinta Gallery of Fine Arts, Badda in the capital.

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GDP growth drops to 4.2pc in FY24

The country’s gross domestic product growth for the 2023-2024 financial year was 4.22 per cent, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics’ update released on Monday...

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Human rights of all must be protected: seminar

The United Kingdom’s human rights ambassador and deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, Eleanor Sanders, at a seminar in Dhaka on Wednesday said that human rights of all must be protected regardless of race, religion or caste...

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Social health insurance scheme

ADVOCACY for initiating a general practitioner-based primary health care system, practised in the United Kingdom and in many former British colonies, looks quite rife in Bangladesh whereas the financing avenue urged for the same is the social health insurance-based model, known also as the Bismarck model, initiated in Germany in 1883. The...

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KSA opens Mecca, Medina to foreign investors

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Monday said foreigners are from now on allowed to invest in Saudi-listed companies that own property in Mecca and Medina, Islam’s two holiest cities...

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Teenage girl killed, mother injured in Narsingdi attack

A group of unidentified miscreants hacked a teenage girl to death and severely injured her mother after breaking into their house at Shekherchar-Baburhat market under the sadar upazila in Narsingdi on Monday night.

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KSA-bound passengers stage demo over vaccine crisis

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia-bound migrants and those intending to perform Umrah staged demonstration in Dhaka on Tuesday after failing to receive mandatory meningitis vaccination to travel the Middle East country...

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Rupa Huq terms APPG report on Bangladesh as ‘one-sided’

British lawmaker Rupa Huq has criticised a ‘one-sided account’ of Bangladesh’s interim government, led by chief adviser professor Muhammad Yunus, alleging it was falsely presented under the banner of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Commonwealth, causing confusion...

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Sand lifters shoot at mobile court

Illegal sand lifters allegedly shot at a mobile court from a dredger extracting sand from an illegal sand quarry during a drive in the Meghna River in Raipur upazila of Narsingdi on Thursday...

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KILLING OF MUGHDHO, JAMAAT LEADER: Complaints filed with ICT

The elder brother of Mir Mahfuzur Rahman Mugdho, who was shot dead during the demonstrations of the Student Movement Against Discrimination on July 18, 2024, filed a complaint on Thursday with the International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor...

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Putting migrants back in harness at home

MALAYSIA, Oman, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirate are all temporary homes to a large number of foreign workers and many of them are from Bangladesh. And, many of them are eager to get back home to live with the family and acquaintances and contribute to the local development. Some return to the country but many unfortunately...

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UK to unleash AI to turbocharge economy

Labour administration said AI would be ‘unleashed’ across the whole of the country, with the ‘full weight’ of its half a million strong civil service getting behind the endeavour...

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Chhatra Dal activist shot dead in Narsingdi

A local activist of Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chhatra Dal, student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, has been shot dead by miscreants in Narsingdi’s Sadar Upazila, police said.

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Bangladeshi migrants in Malaysia can sue Dyson: UK Court

The United Kingdom Court of Appeal ruled on Friday that two dozen Bangladeshi and Nepali workers, allegedly subjected to forced labour in Malaysia, could sue Dyson, a British vacuum cleaner manufacturer in London...