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Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Sunday urged Singapore to help recover billions of dollars laundered from Bangladesh and help minimise the cost of migration from the country. "A lot of money was siphoned off from Bangladesh to many countries, including Singapore," Prof Yunus told Singapore`s Ambassador to Bangladesh Derek Loh as they spoke for about an hour. The Chief Adviser, during the meeting at his Tejgaon office said, "We need full cooperation from Singapore.

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The Council of Advisers of the interim government is set for expansion today (Sunday), with new members expected to take oath later in the evening. "Yes, it`s getting expanded. But I can`t tell you the number at this moment," a senior official of the interim government told. The oath-taking ceremony is scheduled to take place at the Darbar Hall of Bangabhaban in the presence of senior government officials and dignitaries

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Demonstrators from the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement on Sunday gathered at the Zero Point area in the capital`s Gulistan shouting slogans to resist "fascist Awami League." The protesters started pouring into the area, also known as Noor Hossain Square, from early morning to demand that the AL which has recently been ousted from power is tried for mass killings during the July-August movement. The demonstration came after Awami League in its

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Vehicular movement on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway has been suspended since Sunday morning, as the workers of TNZ Apparels Ltd factory staged demonstrations demanding payment of their arrears of three months. The workers took to the street around 9 am at Bhogra point of the highway, halting vehicular movement. Commuters using the highway have been facing untold suffering due to the blockade. Meanwhile, authorities declared 20 factories closed due to the workers’ unrest. Workers said the factory authorities have not been paying their arrears for the past three months and so they are unable to pay their house rents.

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Law and Parliamentary Affairs Adviser Prof Asif Nazrul has announced that the government will issue a red notice through Interpol to bring all the fugitives, including Sheikh Hasina, to trial. The adviser said this while speaking to reporters on Sunday after inspecting the renovation work at the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT). He said the government is committed to taking all necessary measures to repatriate fugitive accused, including former Prime Minister Sheikh

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The authorities have deployed 191 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh across the country to maintain law and order centering the observance of Shaheed Noor Hossain Day. A message sent from the BGB headquarters in Dhaka said this on Sunday morning. Alongside the BGB, members of police, Rapid Action Battalion, and other forces have been kept vigilant across the country. Tension has mounted after the Anti-Discrimination Student

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Russia downed 25 Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow overnight Saturday to Sunday in one of the largest attacks on the capital since the conflict erupted in 2022, the city`s mayor said. "In all, 25 drones were destroyed," Sergei Sobyanin posted on Telegram, after saying earlier that 22 drones had been downed. He said most of the drones were heading toward the Ramenskoye and Domodedovo districts south of Moscow, temporarily halting flights at the Domodedovo and Zhukovsky airports according to airport authorities.

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Gunmen attacked a bar in central Mexican city of Queretaro killing 10 people on Saturday, a local security official said. The attackers opened fire inside the Los Cantaritos bar in the city`s historic district, according to the head of Queretaro`s public security department Juan Luis Ferrusca. "Emergency services arrived at the scene and confirmed that at least four people armed with long weapons had arrived on board a pickup truck," he said in a video posted on social media.

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Gaza`s civil defence agency on Sunday said 30 people, including 13 children, were killed in two Israeli strikes on two houses in the north of the Palestinian territory. The first strike early Sunday hit a house in Jabalia in northern Gaza, killing "at least 25" people, including 13 children, and injuring more than 30, the civil defence said. Since October 6, the Israeli military has been engaged in a withering air and ground assault on areas of northern Gaza, including Jabalia, saying they are seeking to stop Hamas militants from regrouping there.

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Gaza`s civil defence agency said on Saturday that Israeli air strikes killed at least 14 Palestinians overnight, including women and children, while the Israeli military said it had eliminated dozens of militants in the territory`s north. An air strike hit tents housing displaced Palestinians in the southern area of Khan Yunis, killing at least nine people, including children and women, civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.

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Leaders and activists of BNP have gathered at Noor Hossain square at Zero Point and Awami League central office at Gulistan, aiming to thwart Awami League’s bid to hold a rally marking Noor Hossain Day. Leaders and activists of the party started to gather in front of Awami League office at 10 am and then marched towards Noor Hossain square at Bangabandhu Avenue around 10:30 am.

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Bangladesh Nationalist Party`s standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury on Saturday said that "no government without public representation will understand the people, will not understand the people`s suffering." He made these remarks while addressing a rally as chief guest at Kazir Dewri area in Chattogram on Saturday afternoon. Chattogram city, north and south district units of BNP organised the rally to mark the national revolution and solidarity day.

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Sarjis Alam and the coordinators of Sylhet were present in the occasion of providing financial assistance to the families of the martyrs in Sylhet division on the initiative of ‘July Martyrs` Memorial Foundation’. In the meeting room of Sylhet District Commissioner`s office Sarjis Alam, leader of anti-discrimination student movement and general secretary of ‘July Martyrs` Memorial Foundation’ said that 2000 people did not give their lives just for the election

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Police on Saturday informed that a case was filed with Fatikchhari police station against 184 persons including former member of the parliament of Chattogram-2 (Fatikchhari) constituency, Nazibul Bashar Maizbhandari.

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Eight more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Saturday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 350 this year. In the recent fatalities, four were reported in the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), 1 in the Dhaka North City Corporation (DSCC), 1 in the Chattogram division (outside the city corporations) and 2 in the Barishal division (outside the city corporation). During the period,

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