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BSCIC distributes Karushilpa Award

Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation organised a discussion on the ‘Role of BSCIC in the Implementation of Vision 2041 in the Progress of Development’ and distributed ‘Karushilpa Award 1430’ at Oasis Hall of Pan Pacific Sonargaon in Dhaka on Monday...

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Jhenaidah AL leader on 7-day remand

A Dhaka court on Sunday placed a ruling Awami League Jhenaidah district leader on seven-day remand in connection with the AL lawmaker for...

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21 firms get nat’l productivity award

A total of 21 organisations on Saturday received the ‘National Productivity and Quality Excellence Award-2022’ for their significant contributions to the industrial sector through...

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DB detains AL leader in Jhenaidah

A suspect in the murder of ruling Awami League lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar was brought back to Kolkata from Nepal, the police told a press briefing in...

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Leaders mark D-Day under Ukraine shadow

Western leaders on Thursday saluted the sacrifice of soldiers who gave their lives to liberate Europe from Nazi occupation in the World War II D-Day landings, mindful of the...

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Making war on planet earth

Hundreds of the world’s leading climate scientists expect global temperatures to rise to at least 2.5°C (4.5°F) above preindustrial levels this century, blasting past internationally agreed targets and causing catastrophic consequences for...

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NATO’s Pacific war games

AS THE United States increases its military confrontation with China through new military bases on Guam and the Philippines and more land, sea and air exercises with Asia-Pacific countries, the world’s largest naval war exercises will be held in the mid-Pacific from June 26 to August 2 and NATO...

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Shafi Ahmed laid to rest

Shafi Ahmed, former member of the Liberation War affairs sub-committee of the Awami League and former general secretary of the JSD Chhatra League central committee, was laid to eternal rest at Netrakona municipality graveyard on Wednesday...

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The military-industrial complex is killing us all

WE NEED to talk about what bombs do in war. Bombs shred flesh. Bombs shatter bones. Bombs dismember. Bombs cause brains, lungs, and other organs to shake so violently they bleed, rupture, and cease functioning. Bombs injure. Bombs kill. Bombs destroy...

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Netanyahu prolonging Gaza war: Biden

US president Joe Biden swiped at Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with Time magazine published on Tuesday, saying there was ‘every reason’ to conclude the Israeli prime minister...

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Court orders arrest of Siam

A Dhaka court on Monday issued an arrest warrant against Siam Hossain, who is now reportedly staying in Nepal, in the case of the murder of the ruling ...

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If the wars go on

I SUPPOSE my title could have been couched in the singular form, as Hermann Hesse, the Nobel prize winning German/Swiss author, did with his collection of anti-war essays about World War I (the war to end all wars that didn’t), If The War Goes On…

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The untold ICC story

Even the most optimistic of political analysts did not expect that the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor would be uttering these words:..

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Got crucial evidence, motive to be revealed soon: DB chief

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police detective branch chief Harun-or-Rashid said that the detective team that went to Kolkata on May 26 gathered crucial evidence and hoped that the motive of the murder of Jhenaidah-4 constituency lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar would be revealed soon...

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Murdered MP’s daughter yet to get Indian visa

Mumtarin Ferdous Dorin, the daughter of slain ruling Awami League lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar, did not get an Indian visa till Thursday as she was waiting to go to Kolkata to give a sample for a DNA test to identify her father’s body who was reportedly killed in a New Town flat...

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S Africa’s genocide case against Israel

THE Israeli-Hamas war is a complex, tragic, and enduring issue in contemporary global politics. The South African government has always expressed deep concern over Israel’s ruthless military operations against the Palestinian people. Indeed, the governing party, the African National Congress, has a long history of solidarity and sympathy for the Palestinian struggle...

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Bangladesh business climate deteriorates

Bangladesh’s business environment deteriorated in the financial year 2023-24 compared with that in the FY 2022-23 due mainly to lack of necessary reforms, increasing pressure from tax authorities, rising interest rate and impact of the Russia-Ukraine war, according to a report released by the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka...