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January 10, 2025, 10:22 am

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Crises hamper agarwood perfume industry’s potentials Investors adopting ‘wait-and-see’ policy as Jul-Sep proposals fall DCCI raises alarms over VAT and gas price hikes BNP lodges complaints with ICT over 2276 crossfires, 153 enforced disappearance BNP to persist with movements until democracy restored BDR carnage trial proceedings halted at Bakshibazar field after protests Most of 227 excluded BCS 43rd candidates can join duties: Secy SC hearing on Azhar’s review plea against war crimes conviction Jan 23 Missing Ctg court case dockets recovered, one arrested ‘Bullet fire from Indian side’ kills youth along Sunamganj border

International

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

At least 550 pilgrims die during Hajj, diplomats say

323 of those who died were Egyptians AFP, Riyadh: Muslim pilgrims perform the farewell circumambulation or “tawaf”, circling seven times around the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque

Heavy rain, landslides kill 6 in Sikkim

Reuter, Tora Agarwala: At least six people have been killed this week and around 2,000 tourists stranded in India’s Himalayan state of Sikkim in landslides and floods after incessant rainfall,