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BAGHC observes environment day

Banophool Adibashi Green Heart College celebrated the World Environment Day 2025 with a series of events under the theme ‘No more plastic pollution, it’s time to stop it’, reaffirming its commitment to environmental protection and sustainability on July 24...

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Funding cuts increase monsoon risks for Rohingyas: UNHCR

Reductions in funding for a community maintenance programme in the Rohingya camps of Cox’s Bazar have not only affected their incomes but also compromised safety during the monsoon season, the UN Refugee Agency has warned...

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MoU signed to launch UN rights office in Bangladesh

The United Nations Human Rights Office and Bangladesh have signed a memorandum of understanding to launch a rights office in Bangladesh for a three-year period to support the promotion and protection of human rights in the country.

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Badiul to challenge parts of HC verdict on 15th amendment

Civil society platform Susashoner Jonno Nagorik secretary Badiul Alam Majumdar, a petitioner against the constitution’s 15th amendment, on Tuesday said that he would file an appeal challenging parts of a December High Court verdict that cancelled the amendment...

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BSF returns Swechchhasebak League leader, his associate

A judicial magistrate court in Sylhet sent a leader of Swechchhasebak League, the volunteer organisation of the Awami League, and one of his associates to jail on Sunday, a day after they were handed over to the Border Guard Bangladesh by the Indian Border Security Force...

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Police kept inactive to fuel anarchy, delay polls: BNP, wings

Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its three affiliated bodies — Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal, and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal — on Saturday accused the government of deliberately paralysing the police administration to fuel instability across the country as a pretext for delaying the national election...

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1.5 lakh Rohingyas entered Bangladesh in last 18 months: UNHCR

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Friday called for more financial assistance from humanitarian partners as an additional 1,50,000 Rohingya people from Myanmar arrived in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar in the last 18 months.

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SC lawyers protest at HC decentralisation plan

Supreme Court lawyers on Monday protested against a move by 30 political parties to decentralise the High Court by establishing benches in divisional towns, warning that such a step threatens the unitary structure of the judiciary and violates the constitution...

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DNCC to operate urban healthcare service

The Dhaka North City Corporation has taken the responsibility for operating urban healthcare services with an aim to make the primary healthcare more affordable and ensure better quality for its residents...

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No appeal yet against HC verdict commuting death sentences

Nine years have passed since the harrowing extremist attack on Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s Gulshan on July 1, 2016, that left 22 people—17 of them foreign nationals—dead, but no appeal has yet been filed, challenging the High Court verdict that commuted the death sentences of seven convicts to imprisonment until death...

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RU students stage demo for 9-point demand

Students of Rajshahi University on Sunday staged a demonstration on the campus to press home their nine-point charter of demands including better residential facilities, improved healthcare, and digitisation of administrative services...

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PBPLC signs deal with Aqidah

Pubali Bank PLC and Aqidah Healthcare Limited have recently signed an agreement, said a press release...

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Swechchhasebak Dal leader killed in factional clash 

A leader of Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal, voluntary wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was killed on Wednesday night as its two factions allegedly clashed over internal conflict at Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram.

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UNHCR reports 1st voluntary Rohingya return since 2017

At least 82 Rohingyas reportedly returned spontaneously to Myanmar’s Rakhine state last week, the first known instance of voluntary repatriation since the mass exodus of 2017, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...

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Enhancing efficiency of healthcare financing

THE health sector may claim notionally to cater universal health coverage as the doors and the windows to all public health facilities are open to all citizens. The universal health coverage, however, relates to three specific dimensions, not available now in public health facilities. These are the quality of service and equitability with its two dimensions — reaching everyone...

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UNHCR urges Bangladesh to shelter1.13 lakh more Rohingyas

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has recently pressed the Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner to ensure accommodation of 1.13 lakh more Rohingyas amid uncertainty of repatriation...

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ROHINGYA CRISIS: Bangladesh engages with parties in Rakhine: UNHCR

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Tuesday told the UN Security Council that the Bangladesh interim government chose to engage with the parties to the conflict in the Rakhine state to pursue a solution to the Rohingya crisis that...

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3 BNP front orgs announce programmes for May

The Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, three front organisations of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, on Monday announced for May various programmes to be held in the country’s four...

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Enrichment of uranium non-negotiable, says Iran FM

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Wednesday that Iran’s enrichment of uranium as part of its nuclear programme was ‘non-negotiable’ after US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff called for a halt...