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Bangladesh’s export needs to diversify to mid-tech sectors
Daily Star
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August 23, 2025
Bangladesh should widen its export base within and beyond the ready-made garment industry by moving into mid-tier technology sectors, said Aditya Gahlaut, head of Asia for Global Trade Services at HSBC. In an interview with The Daily Star during...
First section of Bangladesh's first fully enclosed expressway comes into operation
Xinhua News Agency
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DHAKA, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- The first 18-kilometer section of the Dhaka Bypass Expressway, constructed by a Chinese company, officially opened for operation here Sunday. This expressway, invested, constructed, and operated by Sichuan Road and...
‘Adam And Eve First...’: Bangladesh Lawyer Seeks Removal Of Darwin's Theory From Textbooks
News18
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August 25, 2025
Last Updated:August 25, 2025, 15:12 IST Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection is a landmark idea in science that explains how species change and new ones arise Hossain is of the view that secondary-level students should not be...
What you need to know about multi-dimensional poverty
Dhaka Tribune
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August 28, 2025
Last month, the General Economic Division (GED) of the Bangladesh Planning Commission published and presented a report on the national multi-dimensional poverty index (MPI) of Bangladesh. This is the first national report on the issue. The report...
Pakistan wants Bangladesh to ‘forget and forgive’ 1971 war crimes. Why Dhaka isn’t ready
Firstpost
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August 25, 2025
Pakistan’s war crimes in East Pakistan (today’s Bangladesh) in 1971 remain a haunting memory between the two nations. Even as Islamabad and Dhaka get closer, the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War looms large. This was visible when Bangladesh flagged...
Pakistan and Bangladesh — From Bitter Pasts to New Pathways
The Nation
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August 25, 2025
History is a curious force. At times, it binds brothers together; at others, it pushes the same bloodline onto divergent paths. The story of Pakistan and Bangladesh is no different — a relationship born in fraternity and solidarity, only to be...
India Is Not Grazing Ground For Infiltrators: Udit Raj Slams Syeda Hameed Over Bangladeshis Remark
MENAFN
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August 25, 2025
(MENAFN- IANS) New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) Congress leader Udit Raj has lashed out at former Planning Commission member Syeda Saiyidain Hameed over her controversial remarks defending Bangladeshi immigrants in Assam, calling her statement“wrong” and...
Kairan Quazi, who joined Elon Musk at 14, is leaving engineering for finance, says: "After two years at SpaceX, I felt…
The Times of India
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August 25, 2025
Teen prodigy Kairan Quazi is trading rocket science for Wall Street, leaving SpaceX to join billionaire Ken Griffin's Citadel Securities as a quantitative developer at just 16 years old. The move marks a significant career pivot for the...
Pakistan refuses to apologise for 1971 Bangladesh genocide when Pakistan Army killed ... lakh, raped ... lakh women, details here
DNA India
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The ongoing and long-drawn issue of Bengali nationalism in Pakistan and the demand for a separate country took a concrete shape when the main opposition Awami League won 288 out of 300 seats in the provincial elections held in East Pakistan on...
Meet Kairan Quazi: A 16-year-old Bangladeshi boy who left Elon Musk’s SpaceX to join THIS global trading firm
Financial Express
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Kairan Quazi, the prodigy from Bangladesh, made headlines when he joined Elon Musk’s Space-tech start-up. Elon Musk left the world amazed when he hired a 14-year-old prodigy from Bangladesh as a software engineer for SpaceX. Kairan Quazi joined...
Jack Technology unveils C5c overlock machine in Dhaka
Textile Focus
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August 25, 2025
Jack Technology Co., Ltd., a leading global sewing machine manufacturer, has launched its C5c Overlock Machine in Bangladesh. The event took place at the Jonaki Convention Hall, New Paltan, Dhaka. The inauguration was attended by Mr. Hatem,...
Poverty deepens sharply in Bangladesh: PPRC
Bangladesh Post
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Poverty in Bangladesh has deepened sharply over the past two years to 27.93 percent, up from 18.7 percent in 2022, with one in four people (27.93%) living below the upper poverty threshold, according to a survey conducted by the Power and...
Evictions in Assam, SIR in Bengal? Migrants Pay for BJP's Anti-Bangladeshi Push
The Quint
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August 25, 2025
Eight months pregnant Sunali Bibi from Birbhum, West Bengal, along with her husband and eight-year-old son, were detained in Delhi on suspicion of being illegal Bangladeshis earlier this year amid a crackdown on illegal immigrants in the national...
OPINION - Why proportional representation would be a disaster for Bangladesh
Yeni Safak
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August 25, 2025
Proportional representation might appear to cure Bangladesh’s winner-take-all distortions, yet in a patronage-soaked, institutionally weak democracy it would almost certainly parliament into quarrelling factions, paralyze policymaking, and invite...
Seminar on “Bi-annual Economic State & Future Outlook of Bangladesh Economy-Private Sector Perspective” held at DCCI
Textile Focus
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August 25, 2025
Due to recent reciprocal tariff measures imposed by the USA along with global political instability, deterioration of domestic law and order situation, a decline in private sector credit flow, uncertainty in energy supply to industries, and...
Police charge truncheons on students marching to Jamuna
Daily Star
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August 27, 2025
58 hurt; DMP commissioner apologises; students want home adviser to say sorry; govt forms committee to deal with their demands Students have declared a "complete shutdown" at all engineering universities across the country for today over their...
Back from Bangladesh, Bengali worker wants justice. Family alleges BSF cover-up
Scroll.in
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The phone calls came a day before a crucial court hearing. On August 13, the Calcutta High Court was to hear Jiyem Sekh’s petition asking the government of India to explain why his son Amir Sk had been forcibly sent to Bangladesh. Amir, a 19-year...
Eight policemen injured in clash with BUET students near CA's office
United News of Bangladesh
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At least eight members of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) were injured on Wednesday afternoon as they attempted to block protesting students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) from marching towards the Jamuna residence...
The fight against poverty must be won
Dhaka Tribune
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August 28, 2025
In a developing country like Bangladesh, which is seemingly on the cusp of becoming a middle-income economy, a rise in poverty can undo much of the economic progress which has been made thus far. When a significant portion of the population is...
Not on same page with Pak FM Ishaq Dar on 'unsettled 1971 issues', says his Bangladesh counterpart
The Economic Times
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August 24, 2025
Bangladesh's foreign adviser on Sunday raised "unsettled" issues, including an apology for the 1971 war, with Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar but said he was not on the same page with the senior most leader Islamabad sent to Dhaka since...