Seeking jobs abroad illegally? Tougher steps await you!

    UNB, Dhaka The government has taken hashers measures to prevent jobseekers from resorting to illegal ways for going abroad using visit, short visit and student visas as well as professional and social visit passes (VPs). Sources at the Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry said the ministry has already issued a letter with three directives…

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      Syria talks should go forward: John Kerry

      UNB/ AP, Paris U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says U.N.-sponsored peace talks on Syria should go ahead Monday as planned, but Russia and U.S. monitors are meeting first to discuss perceived cease-fire violations. Kerry, speaking in Saudi Arabia, said he hoped for a telephone conversation Saturday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about accusations…

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        Dhaka CNG drivers to strike Today

        UNB, Dhaka Dhaka district CNG-run Autorickshaw Drivers Union will enforce a 24-hour strike in the capital from 6am on today to press home their demands. The decision was taken at a meeting held at its Dhalpur office in the city with its president Md Rafique in the chair on Saturday morning. The meeting decided to…

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          ASI killed in Gazipur road crash

          BSS, Gazipur An Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI), Harun Or Rashid, 36, of Hotapara police camp was killed and three persons, including two police constables, Anis, 45, and Jobbar, 32, and microbus driver Faruk , 30, injured seriously when a sand-laden truck hit a police microbus at Puspwadham of Bagherbazar under Joydebpur police station here early on…

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            Bomb hurled at AL candidate’s house

            UNB, Brahmanbaria Miscreants hurled a crude bomb at the house of an Awami League rebel candidate at Araishidha village in Ashuganj upazila early Saturday, ahead of the upcoming Union Parishad election. Local people said 2/3 miscreants on a motorcycle arrived and hurled a crude bomb targeting the house of Quamrul Islam Mobarak, candidate of Araishidha…

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              Govt, bank officials involved in BB money stealing: BNP

              UNB, Dhaka BNP senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Saturday alleged that Tk 800 crore was stolen from Bangladesh Bank’s account in the US Federal Reserve Bank with the help of government and central bank officials. ”The money from the Bangladesh Bank account was stolen right away, not hacked. There’s no scope of swindling out…

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                Early marriage foiled, 2 jailed in Jessore

                UNB A mobile court here on Saturday sentenced two people, including the matchmaker, to seven days’ jail term for arranging marriage of an underage girl at Shakharipota village in Sharsha upazila  on Friday night. Police said being informed by local people, a mobile court led by Sharsha Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Abdus Salam with the…

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                  Pre-registration for online Hajj applications from 20 March

                  UNB, Dhaka Pre-registration for online Hajj applications will begin from 20 March, according to Religious Affairs Minister Principal Motiur Rahman. He said this while speaking at the inauguration of the 9th annual Hajj and Umrah Fair on Saturday, which was organised by Hajj Agencies Association of Bangladesh (HAAB) at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC). During…

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                    Naogaon schoolboy’s death sparks protests

                    UNB, Naogaon Local people blocked road and staged demonstrations on Dhamairhat-Joypurhat road at Chakmoyram in Dhamairhat upazila protesting the death of a schoolboy in a road accident here on Saturday morning. Yasir Arafat Swadhin, 12, son of Tuku Hossain of Pharshipara village of the upazila and a class VI student of Chakmoyram High School, was…

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                      Elderly man beaten dead in Khulna

                      UNB An elderly man was beaten to death allegedly by his neighbour over a previous enmity at Laxmikathi village in Digholia upazila on Friday night. Quoting witnesses, police said Siraj Nikari, 65, of the village had an enmity with his neighbour Mazid Nikari over the ownership of a fish enclosure. As a sequel to the…

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