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Fear grows over repeated dacoity on Dhaka-Tangail-Jamuna Bridge highway

Female passengers ‘molested’ during looting Staff Correspondent: An incident of bus Dacoity occurred once again on the Dhaka-Tangail-Jamuna Bridge highway early Wednesday. A gang of robbers took control of a

Jul-Jan budget deficit up 73pc on slow tax receipts

Staff Correspondent: Bangladesh’s budget deficit surged by 73.04 per cent in the first seven months of the current fiscal year compared to the same period in FY24, driven largely by

Six get death penalty in Sirajganj for killing veggie trader

Ashraful Islam Joy & Sirajul Islam Shishir: A court in Sirajganj on Tuesday sentenced six persons to death in a case filed for kidnapping and killing a vegetable trader. The

BD sees sharp rise in unemployment

Staff correspondent: The number of unemployed people in the country has increased. According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), the total number of unemployed people in the country rose

Fake NGO vanishes with Tk 1 cr in Hatikumrul

Siam Ahmed: A so-called NGO has disappeared with over Tk 1 crore generated from nearly 200 depositors in Ullapara and Raiganj upazila of Sirajganj and Sherpur upazila of Bogura district.

Embezzlement under Fake Names: Greedy bank directors remain untouched

TDS Desk: The money in banks belongs to the general public — but in Bangladesh, the very custodians of that money, the bank directors, have plundered it indiscriminately. Masquerading as