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Sweden provides additional USD 1.85 mn aid to flood victims

Sweden has decided to provide additional 1.8 million US dollar approximately Taka 22.2 crore for the flood affected communities in eastern Bangladesh.

Sweden will provide the vital humanitarian assistance through — Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), I…

Foreign Minister Rana meets with UN USG Lacroix

Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Arzu Rana Deuba met with the United Nations Under Secretary General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix.

During the meeting in New York on Wednesday, the Foreign Minister said that Nepal has been contributing to t…

Maoist Centre becoming popular: Chair Dahal

Chairman and former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has said that his party was gaining popularity because of good governance and corruption control it maintained during its leadership of government.

Chairman Dahal said it while address…

159 advocates granted ‘Senior Advocate’ title

The Supreme Court (SC) has decided to grant the title of senior advocate to 159 advocates on Thursday.

The decision was taken by the full court of the Supreme Court. Achyut Kuinkel, spokesperson at the Supreme Court, informed that the decision was ta…

370 bottles phensidyl seized in C’nawabganj

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seized 370 bottles of phensidyl from Sadar upazila on Wednesday night.

On a tip-off, an operation team of RAB-5 conducted a raid near Sonapur Bridge area under Baliadanga union of the upazila around 11.40 pm an…

MCC CEO Albright calls on Prime Minister Oli

Alice Albright, the CEO of Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.

During the meeting with Prime Minister Oli, who is in New York attending the 79th UN General Assembly, various matters of bilatera…

Tourist police play vital role for expansion of tourism: IGP

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Md Mainul Islam today said that the Tourist Police have been playing a vital role for expansion of tourism sector through ensuring protection of tourists as well as the environment.

‘Everyone should come forward to p…