Mirza Abbas raises alarm over alleged entry of ‘unverified foreigners’
NN Online : BNP senior leader Mirza Abbas on Monday voiced concerns over what he described as a rising influx of questionable foreign nationals into...
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Mergers proposed as 10 troubled banks in Bangladesh drown in massive loan defaults
UNB : A group of weak banks, including those linked to S Alam and others, are floundering under non-performing loans (NPLs) amounting to Tk1.3 lakh...
US, China hail ‘constructive’ Geneva trade talks, details due Monday
Reuters: The US and China ended high-stakes trade talks on a positive note on Sunday, with US officials touting a “deal” to reduce the US...
Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes China’s Tibet
Reuters: An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck Tibet early on Monday, the China Earthquake Administration (CEA) said. The quake hit the city of Shigatse at...
588 killed in April road crashes
Staff Reporter : At least 588 people, including 86 women and 78 children, were killed and 1,231 others injured in 593 road accidents across the...
Trump to work with India, Pakistan on Kashmir ‘issue’
Al Jazeera : United States President Donald Trump has offered to work with India and Pakistan to achieve a “solution” for the long-disputed Kashmir region,...
‘New constitution requires time’
Staff Reporter : Law Adviser Asif Nazrul has remarked that it may take a long time to draft a new constitution. He said, “The national...
Govt, BB empowered to take over troubled banks
Staff Reporter : The government and the Bangladesh Bank (BB) have been granted broad authority to assume temporary control of any scheduled or Islamic bank...
Broad political consensus forms over ban on AL
Abu Jakir : In a significant development in Bangladesh’s political landscape, the interim government’s decision to ban all organisational activities of the Awami League under...
Ticket syndicate looted crores of taka from migrant workers
NN Online : A high-level government investigation has unearthed a massive ticketing scam that defrauded Bangladeshi migrant workers of hundreds of crores of taka. The...
BNP welcomes interim govt’s move to initiate genocide trials
NN Online: The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has welcomed the interim government’s decision to prosecute individuals linked to genocide and crimes against humanity, describing...
RSF: 588 killed, over 1,100 injured in road accidents in April
NN Online: At least 588 people were killed and 1,124 others injured in 593 road accidents across the country in April, according to a monthly...