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West Indies captain Roston Chase took three wickets as Bangladesh slumped to 79 for six in their second innings before bad light forced an early close on the third day of the first Test in Mirpur on Friday.
Despite their age and physical limitations, 98-year-old Jasim Uddin and 89-year-old Amela Bewa arrived at a polling centre in Thakurgaon-1
Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal sentences Awami League leader Mahbubul Alam Hanif to death and three associates to imprisonment until death over crimes against humanity.
A man and his five-year-old son were killed and three others, including his wife and daughter, were injured in a head-on collision between two motorcycles in Kendua upazila of Netrokona on Friday.
The family of an 18-year-old boy, who was shot dead in Dhaka’s Jatrabari on Tuesday evening, alleged that plainclothes members of Special Response Battalion opened fire during an anti-narcotics drive and caused the death.
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Thursday sentenced Mahbub-ul Alam Hanif, joint general secretary of the banned Awami League, to death
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey have taken their latest peace push directly to Tehran. Officially, it was to avert a new military escalation, but their diplomatic outreach can also be seen as a warning to Iran.
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Rail services between Dhaka and northern Bangladesh were suspended after a carriage of the Neel Sagar Express derailed near Mahera railway station in Mirzapur, Tangail, on Thursday morning. The incident occurred around 9:30am, leaving trains stranded at several stations and...
Experts seek district-level access to clot-busting stroke treatment
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wanted to give Canada a special status within the EU. But Germany and other member states have raised objections ahead of a summit in Montreal.
New Age, a Dhaka-based leading English language daily newspaper, is a major source of news of Bangladesh and international affairs
The seven-day National Youth Fair, which was scheduled to take place from November 1 to 7 at the old trade
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Mahera Station Master Rakibul Islam said the rear portion of the last coach of the Neelsagar Express (765), travelling from Dhaka to Nilphamari, went off the tracks.
As many as 758 of the 1,464 government primary schools in Gaibandha are operating without head teachers, affecting classroom teaching and administrative activities at the institutions, particularly in remote and char areas.
The government has decided to keep the prices of diesel, octane, petrol and kerosene unchanged for November.According to a notification issued by the Energy and Mineral Resources Division on Thursday, the existing prices will remain effective throughout November.Under the existing rates, diesel is s
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's absence from a regional summit hosted by Turkey on Friday has fuelled speculation about growing tensions between the two traditionally close allies.
Shadman Islam completed his third Test century in the first over of the second day against West Indies at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium on Thursday
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