Year: 2025

Grameen Bank ownership, board to see major changes

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Grameen Bank ownership, board to see major changes

January 8, 2025

Grameen Bank is set to get a fresh lease of life as the government plans to reduce...

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Savings certificate interest rates to go up

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Savings certificate interest rates to go up

January 8, 2025

The interim government is set to increase the interest rates against various savings certificates to upwards of...

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Khaleda and Tarique reunite after 7yrs

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Khaleda and Tarique reunite after 7yrs

January 8, 2025

It had been precisely 2,732 days since BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia met her only surviving son.

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Tk 1,114cr embezzlement: ACC sues two sons of S Alam, 52 others

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Tk 1,114cr embezzlement: ACC sues two sons of S Alam, 52 others

January 8, 2025

The Anti-Corruption Commission has lodged a case against 54 individuals, including Ahsanul Alam and Ashraful Alam, sons...

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Freedom fighter held over attack on students’ procession

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Freedom fighter held over attack on students’ procession

January 8, 2025

Police have arrested a freedom fighter in Tangail’s Sakhipur for his alleged involvement in an attack on...

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Nothing to say if India extends Hasina’s visa: Touhid Hossain

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Nothing to say if India extends Hasina’s visa: Touhid Hossain

January 8, 2025

Bangladesh has nothing to say if India extends the visa of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina who...

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Proof of graft, power abuse found against Hasina: DG of ACC

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Proof of graft, power abuse found against Hasina: DG of ACC

January 8, 2025

The Anti-Corruption Commission has found clear evidence that former prime minister Sheikh Hasina abused power to amass...

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University student unions: Student bodies split over polls timing

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University student unions: Student bodies split over polls timing

January 8, 2025

With Dhaka and Jahangirnagar universities gearing up for students’ union elections, the student bodies are now sharply...

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Trump’s Territorial Ambitions Rattle a Weary World

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Trump’s Territorial Ambitions Rattle a Weary World

January 8, 2025

A distant era of global politics, when nations scrambled to grab territory, suddenly seems less distant. 

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Musk uses memes to call out UK PM Starmer over Pakistani grooming gangs: ‘… this could get you sent to prison’

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Musk uses memes to call out UK PM Starmer over Pakistani grooming gangs: ‘… this could get you sent to prison’

January 8, 2025

Elon Musk criticized UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer for not addressing grooming gangs, using viral memes to...

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