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Chinese Premier Li starts New Zealand, Australia visits
News —13 June, 2024 15:36
Chinese Premier Li Qiang touted trade and "friendship" as he started a tour of New Zealand and Australia on Thursday, a rare visit that comes as both hosts…
US Embassy responds to The Mirror Asia's report
Today The Mirror Asia has run a report on the resignation of…
Tarique, 14 others are fugitive convicts in Aug 21 grenade attack case: PM tells JS
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said in the Jatiya…
What Dr Yunus is saying is untrue, offensive: Law Minister
Law Minister Advocate Anisul Huq on Wednesday said Dr. Yunus is being tried in the same way as any citizen of the country who breaches the law but what he(Yunus) is saying is untrue…
Cyclone Remal losses estimated at Tk 7,000cr: Govt
The government has so far estimated the losses caused by cyclone Remal at Tk 7000 crore, said State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Md Mohibur Rahman on Wednesday.…
Dr Yunus, 13 others indicted in money embezzlement case
A court here framed charges against GrameenTelecom Chairman and Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus and 13 others forallegedly embezzling Taka 25 crore from the company and laundering…
Hamas seeks 'complete halt' to war
Hamas says it has submitted its response to a US-backed plan for a ceasefire in Gaza, with a senior group official telling the BBC that it still requires an Israeli commitment to a…
More than 1.5 million foreign Muslims arrive in Makkah for hajj
Muslim pilgrims have been streaming into Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca ahead of the start of the Hajj later this week, as the annual pilgrimage returns to its monumental scale.…
More than 35 dead in Kuwait building fire: interior ministry
More than 35 people were killed in a building fire in an area heavily populated with foreign workers in Kuwait, the interior ministry said on Wednesday. More than 30 people were also injured, a hospital official told Interior Minister Sheikh Fahd Al-Yousef as he visited victims, according to footage posted by Al-Jarida newspaper.
Sales of sacrificial animals begin tomorrow at 22 cattle markets in capital
Sales of sacrificial animals at 22 cattlemarkets including two permanent haats in the capital will start tomorrow,five days before the second largest religious festival of the Muslimcommunity,…
US says it will remain BD’s steadfast partner in Rohingya refugee response
The United States has said it will continue to advocate with countries in the region, and at the United Nations, for a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Myanmar so that the Rohingyas…
Human case of bird flu found in India: WHO
The World Health Organisation on Tuesday said a case of human infection with bird flucaused by the H9N2 virus was detected in a four-year-old child in the eastern Indian state of West…
Ctg garment factory catches fire
A fire broke out at the factory of Gartex Garments Limited in Chattogram city on Wednesday morning. Six units of the Fire Service are working to control the blaze, confirmed Md. Abdullah,…
Dozens detained in new pro-Gaza protests at UCLA
Police thwarted attempts by pro-Palestinian demonstrators to set up a new encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, where officers cleared a previous camp this spring…
Johnson & Johnson reaches $700m talc case settlement
US pharmaceutical and cosmetics giantJohnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $700 million to settle allegations itmisled customers about the safety of its talcum-based powder products,…
Blinken heads for Qatar after Hamas truce deal reply
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken washeading on Wednesday to talks in key mediator Qatar after Hamas gave a replyto a US-led proposal for a ceasefire in war-ravaged Gaza. Blinken,…
Gaza war hangs over hajj as pilgrims flock to Makkah
MAKKAH, Saudi Arabia, June 12, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Hundreds of thousands ofMuslims have flocked to the Saudi holy city of Makkah for the hajj pilgrimageunfolding this year in the shadow…