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BSF kills Bangladeshi youth along Thakurgaon border: Police

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A 28-year-old Bangladeshi youth was gunned down allegedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Baliadangi border in Thakurgaon early Friday, said…

BSF kills Bangladeshi youth along Thakurgaon border: Police

Record number of UK Cabinet ministers defeated in election

A record number of Cabinet ministers lost their seats on Friday…

Record number of UK Cabinet ministers defeated in election
Three Bangladeshis die in Saudi factory fire

Three Bangladeshis from Naogaon's Atrai upazila have died in…

Three Bangladeshis die in Saudi 
 factory fire

Central BCL forms probe committee over JnU BCL's controversy

Central BCL forms probe committee over JnU BCL's controversy

The central committee of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) formed a two-member comittee to investigate the recent controversy of the JnU Chhatra League, including alleged question paper…

Government servants rules being amended

Government servants rules being amended

Cabinet Secretary Md. Mahbub Hossain has said Government Servants (Conduct) Rules, 1979 is being amended. He said this while replying to journalists after the end of the meeting…

Sunak concedes Tory defeat

Sunak concedes Tory defeat

Rishi Sunak has said he accepts responsibility for the Conservative Party's historic general election defeat. Sir Keir Starmer has led the Labour Party to a landslide victory and will…

Polling starts in Iran presidential election runoff

Polling starts in Iran presidential election runoff

Polls opened Friday for Iran’s runoff presidential election, the interior ministry said, pitting reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian against ultraconservative Saeed Jalili…

'I'm not going anywhere,' Biden tells crowd

'I'm not going anywhere,' Biden tells crowd

US President Joe Biden vowed to keep fighting Thursday despite calls for him to bow out of the 2024 election race, saying at an Independence Day celebration at the White House he's "not going anywhere." The 81-year-old president, responding to a supporter who told him to "keep up the fight," said: "You got me man. I'm not going anywhere."

Risks multiply for Mediterranean-bound migrants, UN

Risks multiply for Mediterranean-bound migrants, UN

More migrants and refugees are embarking on dangerous journeys across Africa toward the southern shores of the Mediterranean Sea where they face growing risk of abuse such as kidnapping…

Hezbollah launches attack after commander killed in Israeli strike

Hezbollah launches attack after commander killed in Israeli strike

Hezbollah launched a major rocket and drone attack on Israel on Thursday and threatened to target new sites in retaliation for the killing of one its top commanders. The party fired…

Selected researchers, innovators, specialists get Saudi citizenship

Selected researchers, innovators, specialists get Saudi citizenship

Saudi citizenship has been granted to a number of scientists, doctors, researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and people who have unique capabilities, expertise, and specializations,…

89 migrants dead at sea off Mauritania: news agency

89 migrants dead at sea off Mauritania: news agency

Nearly 90 migrants bound for Europe perished when their boat capsized earlier this week off the coast of Mauritania, the state news agency and a local official said Thursday, while…

Messi to start for Argentina's Copa quarter-final mission

Messi to start for Argentina's Copa quarter-final mission

Lionel Messi will start for Argentina in their Copa America quarter-final against Ecuador after shrugging off hamstring pain.    Messi was rested for Saturday's 2-0…

Labour leader Keir Starmer wins in UK election

Labour leader Keir Starmer wins in UK election

Keir Starmer on Friday will become Britain’s new prime minister, as his center-left opposition Labour party swept to a landslide general election victory, ending 14 years of…

Israel to send delegation for Gaza hostage negotiations: PM

Israel to send delegation for Gaza hostage negotiations: PM

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Thursday he has agreed to send a delegation for talks on securing the release of hostages seized in the October 7 attacks.In a statement…

President urges Burma to take back Rohingyas respectfully

President urges Burma to take back Rohingyas respectfully

President Mohammed Shahabuddin today urged the Myanmar government to ensure safe and dignified repatriation of the forcibly displaced Rohingya people, sheltered in Bangladesh,…

How India is seen globally: Arundhati Roy, Australian RSS, India in Israel, and more

How India is seen globally: Arundhati Roy, Australian RSS, India in Israel, and more

The Narendra Modi government frequently posits India as a ‘Vishwaguru’ or world leader. How the world sees India is often lost in this branding exercise. Outside India,…