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Problem detected while flight was taxiing at Narita
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Ramadan supplies secure: Minister
Commerce Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir has said
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The 18 months that changed Bangladesh
In August 2024, the streets of Dhaka smelled of smoke and uncertainty. Autorickshaws fell silent. Shopkeepers pulled down shutters early. The old order had collapsed, and in its place stepped an 84-year-old Nobel laureate who promised to shepherd Bangladesh toward democracy....
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Burden of loadshedding on Mymensingh to ease in a year's time, hopes Energy & Power Minister
Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Iqbal Hassan Mahmood on Friday expressed hope that load-shedding in Mymensingh would decline before next summer.
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Who cares for the carers?
Most of us have looked after someone who is ill. Even a short illness brings constant questions: Have they had something to drink? Can they wash themselves? Have they slept? Now imagine asking those questions every day, for years, while caring for a daughter with a...
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Gold prices
New Age, a Dhaka-based leading English language daily newspaper, is a major source of news of Bangladesh and international affairs
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Lika’s breakthrough came after years of struggle. Her fisherman father could offer little financial support for her badminton career, and she now shoulders much of her family’s financial responsibility through her earnings from the sport.
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A prisoner list is not protection
The execution of two Bangladeshi citizens in Saudi Arabia
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How Dhaka became one giant public toilet
From rickshaw pullers forced to choose between earning and paying to use a toilet to women who risk their health by holding it in, Dhaka’s sanitation failures reveal a city that has neglected one of its most basic public needs
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Death behind bars: Who protects prisoners?
With doctors scarce, ambulances lacking and hospitals unequipped to deliver proper care, prisoners remain at risk when illness strikes
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NID server \'down\', online services disrupted for three hours
Online services related to national identity cards were disrupted for around three hours on Wednesday after the Election Commission
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New rules set registration and renewal fees, speed limits, operating zones and safety requirements across Bangladesh’s city corporations
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Saudi strikes kill 14 as Houthis target Aden
New Age, a Dhaka-based leading English language daily newspaper, is a major source of news of Bangladesh and international affairs
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Why Gen Z is taking to the streets across Europe
Anti-riot police clashed with demonstrators in Milan last weekend. -AFPMaya
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CUET academic activities resume partially
New Age, a Dhaka-based leading English language daily newspaper, is a major source of news of Bangladesh and international affairs
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Apparel and textile investors in the export processing zones (EPZs) have sought immediate government intervention to resolve growing ambiguities over recent customs directives, warning that sudden regulatory changes could disrupt production, trigger factory shutdowns and jeopardise millions of dollars in export orders
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The two passengers sit in front of the seized 12kg of gold paste, with customs officials standing behind them, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Courtesy
Preliminary tests confirmed the gold paste was 24-carat and found it concealed in cloth sewn into the two passengers’ jeans and underwear, according to Dhaka Customs House.
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Appointment of top executives to SoBs
The appointment of managing directors (MDs)-cum-chief executive officers (CEOs) to two state-owned banks (SoBs) with just a single precedent in the country's history in 2004, has caused many an eyebrow to raise. In the previous 2004 case too, it was the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) that set t
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