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August 27, 2022

FBI: Trump mixed top secret docs with magazines, other items

Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate early this year contained classified documents, many of them top secret, mixed in with miscellaneous newspapers, magazines and personal correspondence, according to …

Hasina assassination attempt: Convict dies in Satkhira

A 45-year-old man who was serving jail terms in a case filed over the attack on the motorcade of then Bangladesh opposition leader and current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira in 2002, died at a hospital early on Saturday.The deceased was ident…

BGB seizes drugs worth Tk 7 crore in Cox’s Bazar

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) claimed to have seized over 1kg of Ice and 50,000 pieces of Yaba worth nearly TK 7 crore at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar district early on Saturday.Tipped off, a team of BGB’s Teknaf batta…

Banshkhali clash: Over 400 BNP activists sued

Three cases have been filed against more than 400 BNP leaders and activists in connection with Friday’s clash between them and police in Banshkhali upazila of Chattogram.Police filed two of the cases at Banshkhali Police Station on Friday night and ano…

Eloped teenage girl from India rescued in Faridpur, lover held

Police rescued a 16-year-old Indian girl from Faridpur just before she married her 21-year-old Bangladeshi lover.The girl was identified as Puja Bishwas, daughter of Sunil Dash from Nadia district in India’s West Bengal, said Suman Kar, Assistant Super…

Protests in India against release of 11 convicted rapists

Hundreds of people on Saturday held demonstrations in several parts of India to protest a recent government decision to free 11 men who had been jailed for life for gang raping a Muslim woman during India’s devastating 2002 religious riots.The proteste…

Remembering rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam

Saturday marks the 46th death anniversary of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, widely revered for his limitless contribution to Bengali literature.To observe the day commemorating the life and works of the rebel poet, different organisations have lined …

More than 80 people rescued from Philippine ferry fire

Philippine coast guard personnel and volunteers have rescued more than 80 passengers and crew of an inter-island ferry that caught fire as it approached a port south of Manila, prompting many to jump into the water as flames spread fast in windy weathe…

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