New Australian PM under pressure for maiden address

    Abrar Hussain: Austr-alia’s new Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s maiden address to parliament yesterday was mired by a poll that claimed he may soon be out of a job. Morrison – an evangelical Christian and former head of Australian tourism – stepped up to a boisterous first session of questions with the future of his own…

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      Legal loopholes propel child marriage: experts

      BSS Accomplishing his high school graduation last year, Khairul, a 17-year boy living in Purbo Gobaria village under Kuliarchar upazila in Kishoreganj district, enrolled in a technical collage located in the nearby Laksmipur village to continue his study. And everything was going on the right direction with Khairul attending his classes regularly at the college….

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        BPL teams await foreign stars

        DOT Desk: Most of the franchises of Bangladesh Premier League started their preparations for the sixth edition of the tournament in full swing on Wednesday and were waiting for their foreign players and coaching staff to join soon to give it a momentum, reports The New Age. Apart from reigning champions Rangpur Riders and Khulna…

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          New FBI report shows increase in hate crimes

          Sabah Mannan By definition, a hate crime is a prejudice-motivated crime, usually violent, which occurs when a perpetrator subjects a victim because of his or her membership in a certain social race, ethnicity or ancestry. The FBI or Federal Bureau of Investigation which is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States released…

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            Bike crash kills 2 in Gopalganj

            UNB The driver and a passenger of a rented motorcycle were killed as a bus crashed into their vehicle at Pathalia on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Sadar upazila on Thursday morning. Sub-inspector of Sadar Police Station Shah Alam said the accident occurred when a speeding bus hit from behind a rented motorcycle killing passenger Idris…

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              Land bought for BD consulate general office in Jeddah

              Desk Report: The Bang-ladesh government has bought a total of 1,200 square meters, approximately eight bighas, of land at West Bogdadia in Saudi Arabia’s port city Jeddah to build the own building for its Consulate General office, reports Observer BD. FM Borhan Uddin, Consul General of Bangladesh Consulate General, signed the deed on behalf of…

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                Yoko Ono hospitalized with flu-like symptoms: reports

                    BSS   Yoko Ono, the Japanese-born singer, artist and widow of John Lennon, was hospitalized Friday in New York with flu-like symptoms, US media reported. The 83-year-old went to the hospital on her doctor’s recommendation, with what appeared to be “just an advanced case of the flu,” her spokesman Elliot Mintz said, according…

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