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Next election will be the riskiest yet, says EC Anwarul

Staff Correspondent: The upcoming general election will undoubtedly be the most risky in Bangladesh’s electoral history, Election Commissioner Md Anwarul Islam Sarker said on Friday (August 29). Speaking during the

Govt closes three land ports, suspends one to cut costs

TDS Desk: The interim government has decided to shut down three land ports and suspend operations at another along the Bangladesh-India border in a bid to save public money and

Ex-minister Latif Siddique, others taken into police custody

TDS Desk: Several individuals, including former minister Latif Siddique and Dhaka University Law Department Professor Hafizur Rahman, were taken into police custody following unrest at the “Moncho 71” event. Some

Bangladesh-India agree to stop border killings

TDS Desk: Bangladesh and India have agreed to stop killings, smugglings, illegal intrusion on borders alongside repatriate their nationals following due legal process and not to take development schemes within

Women take to driving rickshaws, not only a man’s job anymore

TDS Desk: Women in Bangladesh have set up a lot of examples that they are not confined to household work, rather play laudable roles at different levels of society. The

Politics drives misinformation: 220 of 296 cases in July

Staff Correspondent: A new study has documented 296 instances of false or misleading information in July, with 220 of them linked to politics, making it the most dominant category of