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The prosecutors' move to seek a "provisional execution" on the public office ban - a tough, rarely used tool that means the ban would stand irrespective of any appeal - casts doubt on Le Pen's chances ...

Pope Francis, the spiritual leader of the Catholic Church, and Bangladesh Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus have jointly launched a "Pope Francis Yunus 3Zero Club" in Rome in an effort to usher in a ...

Former chief justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim died at a hospital in Dhaka early Saturday. He was 81. Fazlul breathed his last at around 4:43 am at a hospital while undergoing treatment there. The namaz-e ...

Hundreds of workers of the Beximco Industrial Park, located in the Sarabo area at Gazipur's Kashimpur, have blockaded the Chandra-Nabinagar highway, demanding immediate payment of outstanding salary ...

Prof Yunus highlighted Bangladesh's commitment to uplifting communities, fostering entrepreneurship, and advancing sustainable development.

A German government spokesperson said Olaf Scholz urged Putin to begin talks with Kyiv that would open the way for a "just and lasting peace" as the leaders held their first phone call since December ...

Austrian Ambassador to Bangladesh, stationed in New Delhi, Dr Katharina Wieser, met BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today (16 November). The meeting, which lasted for about an hour, ...

Fisheries and Livestock Adviser Farida Akhter urges Brazil to support efforts to initiate and accelerate negotiations for a preferential trade agreement between Bangladesh and Mercosur ...

Negotiators have made progress by streamlining the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) draft text, which is seen as a positive step forward ...

Seven people including two Indian nationals have been detained by the members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) from a speedboat in Barkal Launch ghat in Rangamati district. Tipped off, a team of ...

In a statement, the bureau said it was aware of the messages, many of which used ethnic slurs and instructed the recipients to pick cotton, a reference to past enslavement of Black people in the Unite ...