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Pakistan inks $50mn MoU with US Strategic Metals to boost mineral sector

Bangladesh, Sept. 9 -- Pakistan has signed a $50 million memorandum of understanding (MoU) with US-based company US Strategic Metals (USSM) to expand its mineral sector, in a move that follows trade a... Read More


Dhaka University students casting ballots in union elections under new political reality

Bangladesh, Sept. 9 -- Dhaka University students are casting their ballots for the central and hall unions, marking the first DUCSU elections in six years -- and the first since the July Uprising resh... Read More


DUCSU polls: Students turn out early in force as voting opens amid tight security

Bangladesh, Sept. 9 -- Dhaka University students are turning out in droves for the long-awaited elections to the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) and hall unions, with long queues mark... Read More


Man held as BGB rescues 2 teens 'being trafficked' to Myanmar

Bangladesh, Sept. 9 -- The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have rescued two Bangladeshi teenage boys in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf as they were allegedly being trafficked to Myanmar. One of the alleged traff... Read More


DUCSU polls: How many ballots were cast in the first hour at TSC centre?

Bangladesh, Sept. 9 -- Prof Nasrin Sultana, the head of the centre at Rokeya Hall, has estimated that hundreds of votes have already been cast within the first hour at the TSC polling centre in the Dh... Read More


DUCSU polls: Umama alleges irregularities at polling centres, Abidul refutes 'baseless' claims

Bangladesh, Sept. 9 -- Leading candidates in the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) elections have given contrasting views on the voting process. Umama Fatema, a vice president candidat... Read More


Ex-secretary Bhuiyan Shafiqul Islam arrested in 'Mancha 71' terrorism case

Bangladesh, Sept. 9 -- Former secretary Bhuiyan Shafiqul Islam has been arrested in the same anti-terrorism case that earlier saw former Awami League Presidium member Abdul Latif Siddique sent to jail... Read More


4,000 named in murder case over 'Nural Pagla' shrine attack

Bangladesh, Sept. 9 -- A case has been filed over the murder of a man at the shrine of a local religious figure known as "Nural Pagla" in Rajbari, accusing 4,000 people. Police have arrested two peop... Read More


DUCSU candidates allege journalists, polling agents barred from voting centre

Bangladesh, Sept. 9 -- Candidates in the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) election has alleged that journalists and polling had been blocked from entering the University Laboratory Sch... Read More


DUCSU election: Polling officer removed after handing 2 ballot papers to a voter

Bangladesh, Sept. 9 -- A polling officer has been removed from duty after a student at Curzon Hall was mistakenly given two ballot papers during the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) an... Read More