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October 19, 2024, 4:15 am

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2 BCL leaders held at RU while attending exams Next election by 2025: Asif Nazrul Mahmudur Rahman says Amar Desh to be back in market again by Dec Jute fiber’s quality to be improved to boost jute usage: Agri Secy Lalon was against all sorts of discrimination: Farida Akter Granting asylum to Hasina means sheltering ‘a killer’: Rizvi Adviser Rizwana promotes healthy habits for stronger future Tarique seeks pragmatic steps from govt for market control Egg prices drop to Tk150 per dozen Bid to kill Khaleda Zia: Ex-OC of Gulshan police station remanded

International

Japan sanctions China, India-based firms for ‘supporting war in Ukraine’

TDS Desk: Japan has unveiled trade restrictions against firms in China, India, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan over their alleged support for Russia’s war on Ukraine, report news agencies. The sanctions announced

Hajj death toll passes 1,000

Int’l Desk: The death toll from this year’s hajj has exceeded 1,000, an AFP tally said on Thursday, more than half of them unregistered worshipers who performed the pilgrimage in

Indian toxic alcohol brew kills at least 34

AFP, Mumbai: A batch of toxic illegal alcohol in India has killed at least 34 people with more than 100 others rushed to hospital, Tamil Nadu state officials told reporters

Hajj death toll exceeds 900

Loved ones search for missing pilgrims AFP, Riyadh Muslim devotees walk around the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Makkah on 13

Putin in Hanoi after inking N. Korea defence pact

AFP, HANOI: Russian President Vladimir Putin begins a state visit to Vietnam on Thursday, a day after signing a mutual defence pact with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, who offered

Hundreds of Uyghur villages and towns renamed by China

Int’l Desk: This picture taken in July 2023 shows a view of an alleged former detention centre known as Yengisheher-2, in China’s north-western Xinjiang region. Photo: AFP/Getty Images via The