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PM reaches London
UNB, London :Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was accorded a warm reception here on Monday as she arrived at the Heathrow Airport on a three-day official...
4000 Bangladeshis own houses in Malaysia
Shahdiul Islam Shahid :About 4,000 Bangladeshis, who own plot of land or flat in Malaysia, under “Malaysia my second home programme”, have laundered about Taka...
Export target $33.2b
The government on Monday fixed $33.20 billion export earnings target for the current fiscal (2014-15), up by 10.02 per cent or $2.70 billion from the...
Fighting flares in Ukraine as crash investigators arrive
Reuters, Ukraine :Fighting flared in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Monday as investigators began to inspect the bodies of victims of the downing...
Palestinian tolls over 500
News desk :Over 500 Palestinians, mainly civilians and children have been killed since the Israeli rampage began 13 days ago, Gaza’s health ministry says.Twenty Israelis...
Test formalin detector: HC
bdnews24.com :High Court has ordered that the formalin detectors which are used in Bangladesh should be properly examined.Justices Salma Masud Chowdhury and Md Habibul Gani...
HRW’s call rejected
bdnews24.com :A Cabinet committee on law and order has strongly criticised Human Rights Watch (HRW)’s call to disband elite police unit, RAB, and outrightly rejected...
HRW urges PM to disband RAB
UNB, New York :The Bangladesh government should disband the paramilitary Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a letter to...
UN calls for truce
News desk :The UN Security Council has called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza as death toll hits 518.US Secretary of...