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Khaleda serves legal notice on Hasina

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday sent a legal notice to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, asking her to apologise for making “baseless and defamatory” allegations against the former premier and her family members of accumulating a huge amount of wealth in Saudi Arabia. The move was sure to draw backlash from the ruling Awami League as the party has already hit back saying it will take legal action through court if Khaleda doesn't withdraw her notice. BNP joint secretary general barrister Mahbubuddin Khokon sent the notice by post on Tuesday. Hours after the news spread, the Awami League (AL) threatened the BNP chairperson to withdraw the notice or to face legal action. BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir disclosed…

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Khaleda entangled in legal web

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is currently facing 37 cases and the police have submitted chargesheets…

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News

Khaleda’s closing argument begins

Lawyers for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday started to place their closing arguments in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. During the opening argument, Advocate Abdur Rezak Khan, counsel for the BNP chief, cited some “defective” points in statements of some witnesses produced by the…

DMP designates 39 on-street parking lots in Dhaka

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Metro

Dense fog keeps flight disruption

Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) was forced to shut down all flight operations at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in the capital from 12:15 am to 9:30 am yesterday due to dense fog resulting in delay of numbers of international and domestic flights, reports BSS. "We resumed…

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Editorial

Rohingya repatriation

That a joint working group has been formed to start repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas from Bangladesh, is indeed a positive development. But many are of the opinion, nationally and internationally, that Myanmar would not take the displaced Rohingyas back, all efforts that the Myanmar…

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Op-ed

People and leadership

eople are the catalysts for all changes. Understanding the logic that the history of mankind is the history of never ending struggle of man would provide us to believe that the existence of social disagreements among different segments of the people and the need to mitigate optimally those disagreements…

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Business

BTRC all set to regulate Internet CAS Server

With a view to regulate Internet CAS Server, the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has selected organisations that will be entitled to set up the CAS server. The commission took the decision in its meeting held in the first week of December, following a meeting with Google on…

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Worldwide

US ‘can’t tolerate’ a nuclear N Korea

Washington: White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster said in an interview Tuesday that the United States doesn't want to risk coexisting with a nuclear North Korea, reports CNN. "We can't tolerate that risk," he told CBS in an interview Tuesday morning. "If North Korea…

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Dhakalive

Shafin Ahmed claims ownership of ‘Miles’

Shafin Ahmed, the lead vocalist and bassist of the widely popular rock band ‘Miles’, arranged a press briefing at a restaurant in the capital yesterday to announce his sole ownership of the band ‘Miles’ and to discuss about the dissonance going on with other band members. The…

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Sports

Khulna all set to retain title

Mehidy Hasan Miraj recorded his career best first class bowling as Khulna Division brightened their chance to lift the 19th National Cricket League (NCL) title by wrapping Dhaka Division up for 113 in its first innings yesterday at the BKSP ground. At the close of the first day that was delayed by three…

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Nationwide

Aspiring MP candidates gear up campaign to win party tickets

Though the general election is still over a year away, the election euphoria is already visible here in Pabana-4 constituency with the hectic campaign by nomination seekers of the major parties to woo their party high-ups for party tickets, reports UNB. Many areas of Atgharia and Ishwardi upazilas under…

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Myanmar army finds 10 bodies in mass grave

Myanmar's army said it found 10 corpses in a mass grave in a largely Rohingya village in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state, the epicentre of a violent military crackdown that triggered a mass exodus of the Muslim minority, reports AFP from Yangon. Northern Rakhine has been gutted by violence…

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