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JULY UPRISING: BSMMU suspends 15 doctors, nurses, staff members

Fifteen staff members, including senior doctors and nurses of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University have been suspended in connection with the killing that occurred near the university’s cabin block during the anti-discrimination student movement in July...

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Nahid finding his way in T20s

Rangpur Riders’ wicketkeeper and captain Nurul Hasan took a couple of steps back as Nahid Rana was bowling thunderbolts during their Bangladesh Premier League match against Sylhet Strikers at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Tuesday...

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Lankan anti-corruption agenda gets boost

SRI Lanka’s president Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s statement that the government will not permit the erosion of its mandate for accountable government in the context of the resignation of the speaker of the parliament is on track with the promises made during the course of the elections that brought the National People’s Power to power. The president...

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Sri Lanka president in India in first overseas trip

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake vowed to bolster ties with India Monday on his first overseas visit as head of state, with a red carpet welcome by Prime Minister Narendra Modi....

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Winning support from international community

PRESIDENT Anura Kumara Dissanayake is scheduled to make his first international visit to India this week. This is expected to be followed by a visit to China in close order.  The president, and the country itself, is walking a tightrope between these two Asian giants, one which is the world’s second largest economy and other it’s fifth largest...

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Time of hope and a promise to keep

THE recent political transition in Sri Lanka, following the presidential and parliamentary elections of September and November, offers a pivotal opportunity to address entrenched issues of exclusion. In his inaugural speech at the 10th Parliament, president Anura Kumara Dissanayake emphasised his commitment to preventing racism and religious extremism in Sri Lanka. He asserted that his government...

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Sisimpur brings nursery rhymes to children

USAID’s Sisimpur project, the local production of Sesame Street in Bangladesh, has launched an initiative to bring the joy of nursery rhymes to children, says a press release.

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Representation, devolution needed in Lanka

DELIVERING his inaugural policy statement to the parliament, Sri Lanka’s president Anura Kumara Dissanayake dealt mostly with the economy and, in particular, the IMF agreement. The problem that he faces is that the previous government agreed to terms with the International Monetary Fund that did not consider the impact on the people but gave priority...

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Professor Harunur Rashid passes away

Former professor of Jahangirnagar University, M Harunur Rashid, passed away while undergoing treatment at a hospital in the capital on Tuesday...

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Rational approach includes provincial council polls

THE government is being very rational in its actions whether in dealing with the economy, the travel advisories or the reconciliation process, and is reaping the rewards. Its victory at the local council election in Elpitiya is an indication that its popularity after a month in power is continuing and that it is not confined to president Anura Kumara Dissanayake...

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6 DU students get Nurul Islam memorial scholarship

Six students of different departments of Dhaka University under 2022-2023 academic year received Nurul Islam Memorial Trust Fund Scholarship for their good behaviour, regular attendance in class and good results in exams...

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Patients suffer as nurses go on work abstention in Dhaka, elsewhere

Patients suffered immensely in public hospitals as nurses, midwives, nursing students and teachers in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country staged a strike for five hours urging the interim government to appoint qualified people of the sector to the top positions of the Directorate General of Nursing and Midwifery by replacing the bureaucrats...

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A cartoonist’s journey towards red July

‘BE READY, there is a chance that they can take you away any day now.’ This was the warning my editor, Nurul Kabir, gave me after more than two decades of career as editorial cartoonist at the daily ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ·. It was July 23, and by then, the student’s movement for reforms in the quota system in public services had already...

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Extraordinary situation calls for extraordinary measures

BANGLADESH, following the overthrow of an extremely repressive government of the Awami League, in the face of a great democratically oriented student-mass uprising and subsequent voluntary disappearances of all the League leaders from the country’s political scene, obviously with a view to escaping court proceedings...

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Sri Lanka’s left turn in political landscape

THE election and inauguration of Sri Lanka’s first leftist president, Anura Dissanayake, have marked the beginning of a new chapter in the country’s political landscape. There are many questions surrounding how the nation’s political vision and progress will unfold under his leadership. His role in addressing the country’s economic crisis, debt...

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Govt cars abandoned as leftist leader takes charge in Sri Lanka

Hundreds of pricey government vehicles have been abandoned around Sri Lanka’s capital after the country’s new Marxist-leaning president took office, a member of his party said on Wednesday, with hundreds of others missing...

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Fulfilment of Aragalaya in Lanka presidential election

THE extraordinary events that took place during 2022 have reached their denouement at the recently concluded presidential election. The Aragalaya protests that lasted for over three months in the middle of 2022 that were spearheaded by youth and became a mighty protest movement by tens of thousands of people from all walks of life and all parts of...