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Ridoy, Khoi Khoi win singles titles

Muhtasin Ahmed Ridoy and Khoi Khoi Marma won the men’s and women’s singles titles of the Federation Cup Table Tennis Championship, which concluded at the Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Indoor Stadium in the city on Monday...

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Barnstorming Bayern face acid test at PSG

Bayern Munich’s trip to holders Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League on Tuesday is a test to determine where they stand among the European elite this season...

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BCB adds strict clauses for Dhaka leagues

Bangladesh Cricket Board on Monday endorsed a non-participation and withdrawal clause in the rules, regulations, and playing conditions of all leagues under the jurisdiction of the Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolis amid the call for a boycott from various clubs...

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Habibur, bowlers guide Rajshahi to win

Habibur Rahman’s steady 62 led Rajshahi to a seven-wicket victory over Khulna at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on the third day of their second-round fixture of the ongoing National Cricket League on Monday...

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Israeli strikes on south Lebanon kill two

Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon killed two people and wounded seven others on Monday, the Lebanese health ministry said, after Israel threatened to expand its attacks against Iran-backed Hezbollah...

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How Washington enables Israel’s ceasefire violations

SINCE the Gaza ceasefire took effect on October 10, 2025, Israel has once again demonstrated that its impunity is limitless. In less than twenty days since following the signing of the ceasefire, Israel has murdered 226 Palestinians, injured 594, and continues to demolish homes at will. In the same period, Israel has breached the ceasefire more than 125 times...

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The wolf and the lamb

JUST as George HW Bush ‘discovered’ drug cartels in Panama in 1989 and Ronald Reagan labelled Grenada a ‘SovietCuban colony’ in 1983, president Donald Trump has again manufactured a myth — this time, ‘cocaine factories’ in Venezuela...

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When nature and humans turn against humanity

THE screams of Melissa are still echoing in the skies over Jamaica. With winds howling at nearly three hundred kilometres per hour, four-metre-high waves swallowing towns, and whole communities flattened into silence — it felt as if a colossal monster had risen from the sea to avenge its centuries of pain. Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm, was not just another...

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Innovation is key to growth

THE 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt for explaining how innovation drives economic growth. Their work shows that progress is not only about having more people or more machines, it is about having better ideas and better ways of doing things. This message matters deeply for Bangladesh. For...

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Buriganga’s silent scream

SHIHAB stands knee-deep in the Buriganga, rhythmically dipping long rolls of fabric into vats of colour. Each plunge releases clouds of bright yellow and crimson that swirl briefly before dissolving into the river’s inky current. Nearby, his younger brother Shanto stirs another drum of dye, his hands raw and stained, his gaze fixed on the churning water as if searching for...

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Teacher training should be an education policy priority

ONE of the most alarming crises in the education sector today is the systematic erosion in the percentage and number of trained teachers in secondary schools and madrassahs. This is occurring at a time when the number of students and the number of institutions are increasing every year. The government, however, tends to see the question of the declining number of...

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National defence is not a sport

THE interim government’s decision to provide combat and shooting training to nearly nine thousand young people under a programme taken by the ministry of youth and sports and framed, in the language of the adviser to the ministry, as a move to ‘strengthen national defence’ is a misleading initiative. The initiative rests on deeply questionable legal, political and...

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ACC sues Salman F Rahman, 33 others over Tk 1,940cr crore embezzlement

The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday filed five separate cases against 34 people, including the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s former private industry and investment adviser Salman F Rahman, on charges of embezzling Tk 1,939.76 crore from Janata Bank through loan forgery.

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DSCC gets new administrator

Md Mahmudul Hasan, director general of the Monitoring, Inspection and Evaluation Wing of the Local Government Division, has been appointed as the new administrator of Dhaka South City Corporation.

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Sujan seeks leave to appeal HC verdict on caretaker system

Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik on Monday filed a petition with the Appellate Division, seeking permission to appeal against a High Court verdict that restored the election-time caretaker government system by declaring certain provisions of the 15th amendment to the constitution unconstitutional.

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BNP announces names of party candidates

Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday announced the party’s candidates for 237 constituencies for the forthcoming national polls, with particular focus on the nominations of former prime minister Khaleda Zia and her son, Tarique Rahman.