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2nd ICFP-2025 begins in Dhaka
New Age Bangladesh
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Staff Correspondent 27 August, 2025, 01:09 Speakers and guests pose for a group photo at the second international conference on Fibre and Polymer Materials on Bangladesh University of Textiles campus in Dhaka’s Tejgaon area on Tuesday. | Press...
Diploma engineers block Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Gazipur, halts traffic
Dhaka Tribune
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August 26, 2025
The Diploma Engineers’ Welfare Foundation on Tuesday organized protest rallies and a blockade on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway from 6pm to 6:45pm. The demonstration was held in protest against the harassment of diploma engineers in power...
Buet students announce 'March to Dhaka' for today
The Business Standard
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August 26, 2025
Students of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) have announced a 'March to Dhaka' programme for today, as part of their ongoing movement to press home a three-point demand. The announcement came yesterday (26 August),...
Start with curiosity, end with passion: how Tawheed is building his tech career
The National Tribune
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August 27, 2025
Australian Catholic University Tawheed always loved technology. Now, with the support of ACU, he’s building industry experience and new software systems in preparation for a career in tech. When Tawheed started his Bachelor of Information...
Shipbuilding industry in Bangladesh
The Financial Express Bangladesh
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By 2008, South Korea, Japan, and China had become the cornerstones of global shipbuilding, with their combined output dwarfing that of all other regions. South Korea emerged as the leader in constructing large and complex vessels—such as Very...
Global Textile Research Themes To Converge At The 93rd Textile Institute World Conference (TIWC 2025)
Textile World
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August 26, 2025
MANCHESTER, England — August 26, 2025 — The full program for the 93rd Textile Institute World Conference (TIWC 2025) has now been announced, with over 100 presentations to be delivered in parellel sessions at the event, which takes place from...
Bangladesh Bank again calls for applications for digital bank
New Age Bangladesh
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Staff Correspondent 26 August, 2025, 14:44 | New Age file photo Bangladesh Bank has once again invited applications from investors to establish the country’s first digital banks, with an aim of ensuring faster and more accessible financial...
Bangladesh can boost export to Malaysia by developing halal products: Chamber
Bangladesh Post
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Bangladesh has huge potential to increase export goods and skilled service to Malaysia through setting up time befitting products upgradation and training for skills development. This information was revealed at a meet-the-press of...
Bangladesh gets $1b in investment proposals in Jan-May
Daily Star
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August 26, 2025
The country has received investment proposals amounting to nearly $1 billion in the first five months of this year, pointing to renewed confidence in the country's economy, according to the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (Bida). Of...
Dhaka, Seoul agree to deepen ties, explore strategic partnership
Bangladesh Sangsbad Sangstha
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Dhaka, Seoul agree to deepen ties, explore strategic partnership Today, Bangladesh and South Korea held the fourth round of Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) in Seoul. Photo: MoFA DHAKA, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS) - Bangladesh and South Korea today...
Bawms are Bangladeshi citizens: treat them as such
Netra News
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August 26, 2025
On April 20th 2024, three Bawm women were taken from their home in Bandarban’s Ruma upazila, without any warrant or explanation. With them were four children, the youngest a mere six weeks old. For over a year, all seven remained behind bars,...
Bangladesh can boost export to Malaysia by developing halal products and semiconductor sector: Chamber
United News of Bangladesh
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Bangladesh has huge potential to increase export goods and skilled service to Malaysia through setting up time befitting products upgradation and training for skills development. This information was revealed at a meet-the-press of...
Bangladesh launches digital legal aid project to expand access to justice
United News of Bangladesh
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Bangladesh has taken a "major step" toward making justice faster, fairer, and more accessible with the launch of the digital legal aid project, supporting 2025 amendments to the legal aid system. Announced at the National Conference on Legal Aid...
Engineering students block Shahbagh over 3 demands
BDNews24
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Engineering students from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and several other universities have blocked the Shahbagh intersection, staging a protest to press home their three-point charter of demands. They gave the...
Engineering students block Shahbagh over recruitment reforms
New Age Bangladesh
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Staff Correspondent 26 August, 2025, 18:00 Students of engineering universities block Shahbagh to press home their three key demands over engineer recruitment reforms on Tuesday. | New Age photo Students of engineering universities, including...
Honor launches world’s slimmest foldable phone ‘Magic V5’ in Bangladesh
United News of Bangladesh
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Honor has launched its latest flagship foldable phone, the Magic V5, in Bangladesh on Monday introducing it as the world’s slimmest foldable smartphone. The foldable flagship was unveiled at an event at the Renaissance Dhaka Gulshan Hotel,...
Pakistan Can Never Be Considered 'Brotherly' Country By Bangladeshis, Reckons Noted Expert
MENAFN
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August 26, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) Dhaka, Aug 26 (IANS) Pakistan's leadership, including its army-dominated elected civilian government, should revisit the seminal work, 'We Owe An Apology To Bangladesh', in which notable Pakistanis have expressed their outrage over...
Handed Green Flag By Yunus, Pak Foreign Minister Huddled With Radical Islamists In Dhaka
MENAFN
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August 26, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) Dhaka: Pakistan Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar's two-day official visit to Dhaka has proven once again that Bangladesh has emerged as a key location where the interests of four countries - China,...
Heat plus humidity could be hazardous to your heart, researchers warn
Safety & Health - Illinois
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August 26, 2025
New Orleans — When temperatures and humidity levels rise, so does the risk for heart-related emergencies, results of a recent study suggest. A team led by Tulane University researchers looked at nearly 341,000 ER visits for heart-related issues in...
Bangladesh offers lucrative opportunities for Pakistani exports: ICCI President
Associated Press of Pakistan
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August 26, 2025
- Advertisement - ISLAMABAD, Aug 26 (APP):President Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) Nasir Mansoor Qureshi Tuesday said that Pakistan and Bangladesh possess immense potential for enhancing bilateral trade and investment, which...