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September 1, 2022

August is the bloodiest month in world history: KM Khalid

State Minister for Cultural Affairs KM Khalid Wednesday said August is the bloodiest month in world history.On August 15, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members were assassinated in 1975.The 2004 grenade a…

CA firm SMC HRS starts operations in Chattogram

Chartered accountancy firm SMC HRS has started operations in port city Chattogram.Mahbubul Alam, president of Chattogram Chamber of Commerce and Industries, Dr Rubana Huq, vice-chancellor of the Asian University for Women, Zahida Ispahani, advisor of I…

BNP’s 44th founding anniversary observed amid clashes with cops

BNP and its associate bodies celebrated the 44th founding anniversary of the party across the country on Thursday amid sporadic clashes with police in different districts, leaving a Jubo Dal worker killed and many others injured.BNP and all other units…

President prorogues the Parliament

The 19th session of the 11th Parliament was prorogued on Thursday after five sittings.Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury read out the prorogation order of the president at 8:48pm.The Parliament in this session elected Shamsul Hoque Tuku as the deputy spe…

UN cites possible crimes vs. humanity in China’s Xinjiang

China’s discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity, the U.N. human rights office said in a long-awaited report Wednesday, which cited “serious” righ…

Apex court stays HC order on govt officials’ arrest

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday stayed till October 23 the High Court’s order scrapping the provision of prior permission for the arrest of government employees.A six-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justi…

Obstruction now a major focus in Trump documents probe

The FBI investigation into top-secret government information discovered at Mar-a-Lago is zeroing in on the question of whether former President Donald Trump’s team criminally obstructed the probe. A new document alleges that government records had been…

Court frames charges against Golden Monir in drugs case

A Dhaka court on Thursday framed charges against vehicle and gold trader Monir Hossain alias Golden Monir in a narcotics case.Third Additional Metropolitan Sessions Court Judge Sheikh Samidul Islam framed the charges rejecting Monir’s plea for exemptio…

Writer-bureaucrat Khurshid Alam’s 13th death anniversary Thursday

The 13th death anniversary of fiction writer and former additional secretary Md Khurshid Alam will be observed Thursday.Khurshid belonged to the Bangladesh Civil Service (Administration) Cadre 1982 batch. Also, he wrote 19 books.Khurshid’s first book “…

Global Covid cases top 608 million

The overall number of Covid cases has now crossed 608 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world.According to the latest global data, the total case count mounted to 608,022,534 and the death toll reached 6,495,890 on Thursday morning….

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