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August 19, 2022

Momen’s India remarks have no link with AL: Quader

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said the Awami League has never requested India to provide the party with support to stay in power.”The Awami League has never requested India to provide support to us to stay in power and no one …

Two dead, two others missing in Noakhali trawler capsize

Two fishermen died and two others went missing after a trawler carrying 16 fishers capsized amid a heavy storm in the Bay of Bengal on Friday, police said. The capsize occurred adjacent to Nijhum Dwip in Hatiya upazila of Noakhali district on Friday mo…

Chandpur: Coast Guard seizes 1MT shrimps inflated with jelly

Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) Friday confiscated 1,000kg (1 metric tonne) of shrimps injected with a harmful jelly-like substance to artificially increase their weight from Chandpur Sadar upazila.Earlier, on information, a team of BCG carried out a raid…

A look at the world’s skinniest skyscraper: Steinway Tower

One skyscraper stands out from the rest in the Manhattan skyline. It’s not the tallest, but it is the skinniest — the world’s skinniest, in fact.The 84-story residential Steinway Tower, designed by New York architecture firm SHoP Architects, has the ti…

The dancing dollar and the Bangladesh Bank

The dollar to taka conversion rate has become an indicator of the state of the economy. It has been roughed up by the economic weather both global and local. One had almost gotten used to a dollar-taka rate of around 85 for a long while but that “stabi…

16 fishermen go missing after boats capsize in Bay

At least 16 fishermen went missing in the Bay of Bengal Friday as five fishing boats carrying them capsized due to rough weather near Payra Port in Patuakhali, according to Bangladesh Coast Guard.Seventy fishermen boarded the boats that got caught in a…

4 female tea garden workers killed in Moulvibazar landslip

Four female tea garden workers were killed in a landslip at a tea garden in Sreemangal upazila of Moulvibazar district on Friday morning amid their ongoing strike demanding an increase in their daily wages.The deceased were identified as Hira Rani Bhou…

Iran deal tantalizingly close, but US faces new hurdles

Last week’s attack on author Salman Rushdie and the indictment of an Iranian national in a plot to kill former national security adviser John Bolton have given the Biden administration new headaches as it attempts to negotiate a return to the 2015 nucl…

Man held with 17 gold bars in Jashore

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Friday claimed to have detained a man with 17 gold bars weighing 1.985 kg in Sharsha upazila of Jashore.The detainee was identified as Montaj Hossain, 45, a resident of Patuakhali.Read: Man held with gold at Chattogram …

Market blast in north Syria kills at least 9, wounds dozens

A rocket attack on a crowded market in a town held by Turkey-backed opposition fighters in northern Syria Friday killed at least nine people and wounded dozens, an opposition war monitor and a paramedic group reported.The attack on the town of al-Bab c…

High-level talks in Ukraine yield little reported progress

Turkey’s leader and the U.N. chief met in Ukraine with President Volodymr Zelenskyy on Thursday in a high-powered bid to ratchet down a war raging for nearly six months. But little immediate progress was reported.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan …

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