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Hasina, Quader among 128 sued over Jaipurhat student killing

A murder case has been filed against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former minister for road transport and bridges Obaidul Quader, and 126 others over the killing of a student in Jaipurhat during the student movement....

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Pheu Thai party chooses Paetongtarn Shinawatra as PM candidate

Pheu Thai party in Thailand has chosen Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the 37-year-old daughter of billionaire ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra, as its candidate for prime minister, it announced on Thursday, a day after a court dismissed the incumbent premier in an ethics case.

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UK court orders jail terms for social media posts

Prime minister Keir Starmer warned Friday that UK authorities must ‘stay on high alert’ for more far-right riots, as courts issued the first jail sentences for online incitement during the recent disorder...

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US, India extend support to Prof Yunus

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday night congratulated Professor Muhammad Yunus on the assumption of his new responsibilities as chief adviser to the newly formed interim government...

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Interim govt installation, steps to keep law, order imperative

THE deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina has left the country after she resigned. The parliament has been dissolved. The president is now in full charge. But, no interim government has yet been installed to look after the affairs of the state. And, this has left the country with a constitutional and political void, which is not good for any modern-day state...

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PM sits with VCs, college principals at Ganabhaban

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is holding a view-exchange meeting with the vice-chancellors of public and private universities, teachers and college principals at Ganabhaban in Bangladesh capital Dhaka....

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PM’s surprising questions

THE prime minister asking once again who will be responsible for so many death and the mayhem during the student protest is a surprising question, reflecting her dogged, deplorable...

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PM visits Suhrawardy hospital to meet victims of unrest

Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina visited Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital on Tuesday to meet people who sustained injuries during the recent nationwide unrest centring quota reform protests.

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Kamala vows not to be silent on Gaza in meeting with Netanyahu

Kamala Harris signaled a major shift on US Gaza policy Thursday, with the presidential hopeful telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seal a peace deal and insisting she would not be ‘silent’ on the suffering in the Palestinian enclave...

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Netanyahu’s address to US Congress draws mass outrage

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a landmark speech to the US Congress on Wednesday, seeking support at a time of tensions between his country and its main military backer over the former’s military offensive in Gaza reaches new, barbaric heights...

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Bangladesh PM urges party, affluent people to stand by lower income people

Prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday called upon the leaders and workers of her party and its associate bodies, affluent section of the society and well-wishers to extend hands of cooperation to Bangladesh's lower income, poor and working class people....

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Pakistan govt to seek ban of Imran’s party

Pakistan’s government will seek to ban the political party of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan, the information minister said Monday, days after twin court decisions that favoured the former leader...

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Remarks of prime minister that are unbecoming, unacceptable

THE prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s remarks of July 14 at the press conference on the outcome of her visits to India and China about the ongoing movement for quota reforms in the recruitment of public servants and the movement of teachers of 35 public universities demanding the cancellation of the universal pension scheme Pratyay...