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Nationwide ballot audit by 25 August

Dhaka, Aug. 23 -- The Election Commission (EC) has ordered all regional offices to conduct a full audit of ballot boxes by 25 August 2025, as part of a major drive to ensure readiness for the 13th Nat... Read More


Missing link in remittance boom

Dhaka, Aug. 23 -- Bangladesh is among the world's leading recipients of remittances, expected to receive more than $30 billion by 2025. These inflows are crucial for both household consumption and fo... Read More


NCP team to visit China

Dhaka, Aug. 23 -- A delegation from the youth-led National Citizen Party (NCP) will travel to China later this month at the invitation of the Chinese government, marking the party's first high-level o... Read More


Imran Khan gets bail

Dhaka, Aug. 23 -- Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday granted bail to former prime minister Imran Khan in eight cases linked to riots in 2023 when his supporters allegedly attacked the country's mili... Read More


'Ukraine land concessions a Putin's trap'

Dhaka, Aug. 23 -- The top diplomat of the European Union (EU) has warned against pushing Ukraine to give up territories to Russia as part of a future peace deal. Speaking in her first UK interview si... Read More


Thaksin cleared of royal insult

Dhaka, Aug. 23 -- Thailand's former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was cleared Friday of royal defamation charges, relieving a threat to his embattled political dynasty which has dominated Thai pol... Read More


25 injured in Pakistan fireworks blast

Dhaka, Aug. 23 -- An explosion at a fireworks storage facility in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Thursday injured at least 25 people, some of them critically, police and hospital official... Read More


Asia's richest man drives India's Russian oil imports

Dhaka, Aug. 23 -- United States President Donald Trump's additional 25 percent tariff on India for its imports from Russia, saying it is helping fuel Russia's war in Ukraine, has put the South Asian n... Read More


Ex-Sri Lanka president Ranil arrested

Dhaka, Aug. 23 -- Sri Lanka's former president Ranil Wickremesinghe has been arrested in connection with the alleged misuse of funds, police have said. The charge relates to trips he took abroad whil... Read More


Meta signs $10B cloud deal with Google

Dhaka, Aug. 23 -- Google has struck a six-year cloud computing deal with Meta Platforms worth more than $10 billion, the search giant's second big agreement recently after one with OpenAI. Under the ... Read More