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NCP mobilises members to aid victims after jet crashes into Milestone School

Bangladesh, July 21 -- The National Citizen Party has directed its "youth" and "medical" wings to provide emergency aid to those injured in the Bangladesh Air Force jet crash at Milestone School and C... Read More


BAF jet crash: Mothers weep outside emergency unit as nearly 60 schoolchildren injured

Bangladesh, July 21 -- Mahid Hasan Arian, 11, is one of the worst-affected victims undergoing treatment at the emergency department of the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery. Outside the ... Read More


Burn institute opens hotline after plane crash at Milestone School

Bangladesh, July 21 -- An emergency hotline has been launched at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery after an Air Force training plane crashed into a Milestone School and College buildi... Read More


Election will be held as scheduled, no uncertainty: CA's press secretary

Dhaka, July 19 -- Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam has brushed aside any uncertainty over the national election, reiterating that the voting would take place within the timeframe announced by the chief a... Read More


Govt to impose curfew in Gopalganj again from 8pm Saturday

Dhaka, July 19 -- Authorities will bring back curfew in violence-hit Gopalganj from 8pm until 6am Sunday after a 14-hour break following clashes surrounding an NCP rally. Deputy Commissioner Muhammad... Read More


'Crisis of democracy' emerging in Bangladesh, stay vigilant, BNP's Fakhrul says

Dhaka, July 19 -- Awami League has become completely irrelevant in Bangladesh's politics following its ouster by a mass uprising last year, Jamaat-e-Islami deputy chief Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher ha... Read More


BNP leader Fakhrul visits Jamaat chief in hospital

Dhaka, July 19 -- BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has paid a visit to Jamaat-e-Islami chief Shafiqur Rahman in the hospital, who fell ill during a rally. He went to Dhanmondi's Ibn ... Read More


A 'radical and aggressive' reader section threatens media freedom, says Debapriya

Dhaka, July 19 -- Debapriya Bhattacharya, a distinguished fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), has said a section of newspaper readers has become "radical and aggressive", posing a new chal... Read More


Government keeps one party in its 'lap', another on its 'shoulder', says Mirza Abbas

Bangladesh, July 18 -- BNP's senior leader Mirza Abbas has accused the interim government of showing clear "favouritism" by supporting one political party while sidelining others He warned that if el... Read More


Bangladesh reports one dengue death, 114 new hospitalisations in a day

Bangladesh, July 18 -- One person has died of dengue while 114 new patients have been hospitalised with the Aedes mosquito-borne disease across over the past 24 hours. With this, the death tally from... Read More