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CA for armed forces’ role in ensuring free & fair polls

BSS: Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Monday instructed the Armed Forces to perform their duties with professionalism, neutrality, and inter-institutional coordination to ensure participatory, fear-free and fair national elections.

Country loses nearly Tk6,000cr a year under Adani power deal

TDS Desk: Bangladesh is losing nearly Tk6,000 crore every year due to a controversial electricity purchase agreement with India’s Adani Group, according to findings of a government review committee. The

Ex-DMP chief Habibur, 2 others to die for Chankharpul killings during July uprising

TDS Desk: The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) sentenced three people, including former Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner Habibur Rahman, to death in a crimes against humanity case over the killing

12 endangered himalayan vultures rescued across Bangladesh

TDS Desk: The Forest Department has rescued 12 endangered Himalayan Griffon Vultures from different parts of Bangladesh over the past month, saving the giant birds from certain death and rehabilitating

Proposed poultry policy raises fears of monopolisation in chick supply

TDS Desk: A proposal to ban the import of day-old chicks for commercial poultry farms included in the final draft of the National Poultry Development Policy-2026 has triggered widespread concern

Bangladesh raises cost of Rooppur nuclear power plant project by Tk 255.92bn

TDS Desk: The government has approved a Tk 255.92 billion increase in cost of the the Rooppur nuclear power plant construction project at a meeting of the Executive Committee of