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Fewer passengers board govt-hired special trains

The eight special trains the government provided to carry people from different districts to Dhaka city on Tuesday to join the July Declaration announcement ceremony, had passengers fewer than the usual trains...

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Sweden, Denmark, Norway to buy US arms for Ukraine

Sweden, Norway and Denmark will donate equipment and munitions worth $500 million to Ukraine, under a new scheme to speed deliveries from American stockpiles, Stockholm said on Tuesday.

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Ukrainian drones spark fire at Sochi oil depot

An overnight Ukrainian drone attack sparked a fire at an oil depot in Sochi, the Russian resort that hosted the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, around 400 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, authorities said Sunday...

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Karmasangsthan Bank hosts entrepreneurship dev training

Karmasangsthan Bank’s loan and advance department on Thursday hosted an entrepreneurship development training programme at Upazila Livestock Office and Veterinary Hospital at Gouripur in Mymensingh, said a press release...

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A death-defying Maherin Chowdhury

THE most heart-rending accident of a BAF training fighter jet’s crashing into a city school and catching fire has caused irrecoverable losses to the nation as it has so far left dead 35 learners who had a long way to bloom in life as better human beings than us. It is a disaster beyond enduring limit for the parents bereaved of their most loved ones in life. It is not to...

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Met Office predicts heavy rains likely in 3 divisions

Bangladesh Meteorological Department has predicted heavy rainfall in Khulna, Barishal and Chattogram divisions and moderate rains in other parts of the country in 24 hours from 9:00am on Thursday...

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Railway authorities should put in efforts to improve safety issues

YET another train collision in Lalmonirhat lays bare the appalling state of railway safety, constrained by mismanagement and institutional negligence. Two air-conditioned compartments of the Lalmoni Express derailed after it had collided with the Burimari–Parbatipur commuter train in the BDR Gate area on July 28. The incident left at least eight passengers injured, two of...

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Eight injured as trains collide head-on in Lalmonirhat

At least eight passengers sustained injuries, with two among them in critical condition, when two buggies of a passenger train derailed following a head-on collision with another passenger train in Lalmonirhat on Monday.

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Russia starts direct flights to N Korea

Russia on Sunday began direct commercial flights to North Korea, in a further sign of closer ties with its Asian ally helping its offensive in Ukraine...

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Russia seizes 2 villages in central Ukraine

Russia on Saturday said it had wrested two villages in Ukraine, including one in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, marking a fresh advance into an area largely spared seizures of land since Moscow launched its offensive in 2022...

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ICT training concludes with award ceremony at GAU

Gazipur Agricultural University hosted the closing and certificate-awarding ceremony of the ‘digital skills for students training programme at the Begum Sufia Kamal Auditorium of the university on Saturday...

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Rain, landslide kill 5 in Pakistan

A landslide triggered by torrential monsoon rains swept away cars in mountainous northern Pakistan, killing at least five people, with more vehicles buried under the debris, officials said Tuesday...

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MCCI mourns BAF jet crash incident

The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka has expressed its profound shock and deepest sorrow at the tragic crash of a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft into Milestone School and college campus in Uttara, Dhaka on Monday...

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Russia strikes Ukraine after Kyiv offers fresh talks

Russia fired a volley of drones and missiles at Ukraine early on Monday, hitting apartment blocks and a nursery in Kyiv, days after Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky proposed holding a fresh round of peace talks...