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Ziaur threatened me with 25 yrs in jail if I did not comply with proposal: President Hamid

Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid said on Saturday that following the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the then military officer Ziaur Rahman had proposed to him to become a minister and even issued a threat along with it

Ex-Bangladesh Army chief behind murder of 'Bangabandhu': Killer's confession

In a confession, before he was hanged to death in April for the killing off of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, founder of Bangladesh, dismissed military officer Abdul Majed said that former Bangladesh Army chief Ziaur Rahman was behind the 1975 assassination

Vietnam gifts medical supplies worth $30,000 to Bangladesh

Vietnam has presented Bangladesh with medical supplies worth $30,000 to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic

Five held for torturing three boys to death at Jashore correction centre

Police arrested five people, including Abdullah Al Masud, superintendent of Jashore juvenile correction centre, in connection with the incident of torturing three boys of the centre to death

Bangladesh mourns Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib on 1975 carnage anniversary

Bangladesh is mourning Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of the nation who was assassinated along with most of his family members in one of the worst political massacres in world history 45 years ago

Will continue to work for the welfare of the nation: Bangladesh PM

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Friday that she will continue to work for the welfare of the nation by sacrificing everything she can in order to fulfil the dream of Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Amnesty for Migrants in Italy: More than 12,000 Bangladeshis apply for regularisation

At least 12,746 undocumented Bangladeshi migrants in Italy have applied for regularisation under an Italian government-declared amnesty programme which is scheduled to end today

Active Covid Cases: Bangladesh now eighth in world

Bangladesh is now on the eighth position of the countries' list with most active COVID-19 cases as the health directorate reported 2,617 new cases yesterday

Bombing plan at shopping centre thwarted by 'betrayers': NEO-JMB chief

The regional commander of Neo-Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (Neo-JMB) Sheikh Sultan Mohammad Naimuzzaman, on the first day of his seven day police remand confessed that the banned militant outfit planned a bomb blast at an elite shopping mall in Gulshan on July 31, a day before Eid-ul-Azha, the officials told IANS

Ex-Reliance Finance MD embezzled Tk 3,000cr

While he was the managing director of Reliance Finance Ltd, a non-bank financial institution, Proshanta Kumar Halder made his relatives directors of three other leasing companies to swindle money

'Worst is over for Bangladesh economy'

Bangladesh might be one of only two ASEAN and South Asian economies to register positive growth in 2020 despite a global recession that is shaping up to be historic in scale, according to Standard Chartered Bank's research team

Ex-CJ Sinha, 10 others indicted over Farmers Bank scam in Bangladesh

A Dhaka court has opened the trial of former chief justice SK Sinha and 10 others on charges of loan fraud and embezzlement of Tk 40 million from the Farmers Bank

Police foil shrine terror plot, five arrested

Police in Bangladesh said they have arrested five men and busted an alleged plot by the Neo-JMB terror group to attack a prominent Sufi shrine in Sylhet city

70% migrants returning to Bangladesh struggle to find employment: Survey

Nearly 70 percent of surveyed migrants who returned to Bangladesh from abroad between February and June 2020 are still unemployed, said a survey conducted on returnees in 12 districts across the country

71 Bangladeshis return home from Beirut

A C-130J transport aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force -- carrying 71 repatriated Bangladeshi nationals from Lebanon -- returned home on Wednesday after handing over humanitarian and 'Goodwill Aid' of nine tonnes of food items, two tonnes of medicines & medical supplies as relief assistance to the victims of the horrific explosion in Beirut on August 4