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Jordan Intercepts Iranian Missiles Following Joint U.S. and Saudi Strikes in Iraq
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Jordan Intercepts Iranian Missiles Following Joint U.S. and Saudi Strikes in Iraq

Jordanian air defenses shot down five Iranian ballistic missiles following joint U.S. and Saudi air operations against militia positions in Iraq. The renewed clashes disrupt a short-lived pause in hostilities, putting global energy transit through the Strait of Hormuz and Red Sea at further risk.

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Unlocking the full potential of Bangladesh's national laboratory institute

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Politics and religion has now gotten mixed with support for WC team: Kazi Sabir

Politics and religion has now gotten mixed with support for WC team: Kazi Sabir
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Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury and the idea of Bangladesh

Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury and the idea of Bangladesh

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Onion growers breathe easier as prices rebound
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Onion growers breathe easier as prices rebound

Onion farmers in several major producing districts have been grappling with low prices and mounting losses for months. But wholesale prices have risen by as much as twofold in some areas over the past two weeks, bringing much-needed relief to growers.

Chattogram port’s empty-container problem needs more than quick fixes
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Chattogram port’s empty-container problem needs more than quick fixes

A recent dispute over empty containers at Chattogram port has brought to renewed focus a deeper problem in Bangladesh’s trade logistics system: when legitimate interests collide, there is no neutral, technically competent authority to resolve the situation.

Salinity creeps deeper into southwest
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Salinity creeps deeper into southwest

Saltwater is rapidly intruding into Bangladesh's southwestern region, with nearly 68 percent of cultivable land affected in 18 of 19 coastal districts, according to a new government study.

Will there be no end to this farce?
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Will there be no end to this farce?

It is deeply concerning that illegal sand extraction continues unabated inside the Ramgarh-Sitakunda Reserve Forest despite repeated enforcement drives by the Forest Department. According to a report by this daily, authorities conducted at least 21 raids between June 2025 and May 2026, seizing excavators, dredgers, trucks, and more than 1,07,000 cubic feet of illegally extracted sand, while arresting six people. Unfortunately, these drives have failed to stop the illegal trade, as the miners return to the same areas soon after the raids. This shows that the authorities’ approach has failed to make any lasting impact.

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BB issues guidelines to link local banks with foreign payment providers

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Red Sea shipping slows after Houthi attack on Saudi Arabia, data shows

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Tottenham vs Sydney FC: How to Watch, Kick-off Time, and Streaming Details

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When the river takes everything, even a girl's childhood

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Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury and the idea of Bangladesh

This 22nd of July marked the birth centenary of my father, Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury. I harbour no illusions that he would have lived this long in the normal course of events, however. The men on my father’s side of the family tend to be notoriously short-lived; his father died when he was nine, both his brothers passed away in their fifties, and even my only brother, his older son, left us when he was 47. But my father did not die a natural death. He was abducted on 14 December 1971, just two days before his country’s victory in one of the bloodiest liberation wars of the twentieth century, and tortured, bayoneted and shot to death in the early hours of 15 December, along with many other pre-eminent intellectuals of the land.

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Reports of Tk 120cr VAT evasion by Transcom unsubstantiated

Reports claiming Transcom Group evaded Tk 120 crore in VAT remain unverified as NBR continues its regulatory review without issuing any official demand notice.

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Gazi Nazrul’s case raises bigger questions for parliament

The controversy surrounding Satkhira-4 MP Gazi Nazrul Islam poses two questions that must not be confused. Can Jamaat-e-Islami, by expelling him, make his parliamentary seat vacant? And can parliament ignore any serious misconduct merely because no express ground for disqualification has yet arisen? Under the law, the first answer is no. In a credible democracy, the second must also be no.

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How violence against women is normalised in Bangladesh's chars

On the shifting sandbanks of Bangladesh’s Jamuna River, life is lived on the edge—geographically, economically, and socially. These river islands, known as chars, appear and disappear with the rhythm of the monsoon. Entire communities are built, eroded, and rebuilt again, often many times within a single lifetime. For those who live here, instability is not an exception but a condition of existence. Yet beneath the visible cycles of flood and displacement lies another, less visible crisis—one that is deeply embedded in everyday life and rarely addressed: violence against women.

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Unlocking the full potential of Bangladesh's national laboratory institute

When a physician prescribes treatment, almost every clinical decision depends on one fundamental assumption—that the laboratory report is accurate. An incorrect laboratory result can lead to misdiagnosis, inappropriate treatment, delayed intervention, unnecessary healthcare costs, and even preventable deaths. Modern healthcare, therefore, relies on laboratory medicine not merely as a support service but as the foundation of safe and effective clinical decision-making.

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Will there be no end to this farce?

It is deeply concerning that illegal sand extraction continues unabated inside the Ramgarh-Sitakunda Reserve Forest despite repeated enforcement drives by the Forest Department. According to a report by this daily, authorities conducted at least 21 raids between June 2025 and May 2026, seizing excavators, dredgers, trucks, and more than 1,07,000 cubic feet of illegally extracted sand, while arresting six people. Unfortunately, these drives have failed to stop the illegal trade, as the miners return to the same areas soon after the raids. This shows that the authorities’ approach has failed to make any lasting impact.

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The strange grief of seeing our parents age

It was an ordinary night, like countless others before it. I went to bed expecting nothing more than another routine morning. But before dawn, a knock on my bedroom door pulled me from a deep sleep. In the haze between sleep and wakefulness, I heard my mother calling my name. My first instinct was almost embarrassingly mundane.

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BRAC Bank's Q2 profit jumps 73% on higher investment income

BRAC Bank reported a 73 percent year-on-year surge in consolidated net profit for the April-June quarter, driven by higher investment income.

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High risk little readiness

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Chattogram port’s empty-container problem needs more than quick fixes

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BB issues guidelines to link local banks with foreign payment providers

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Madhupur pineapple prices crash as rain, flood dampen demand

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Kafrul Swechchhasebak Dal leader hired hitmen to kill Jubo Dal rival: DB

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Kafrul Swechchhasebak Dal leader hired hitmen to kill Jubo Dal rival: DB

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Tottenham vs Sydney FC: How to Watch, Kick-off Time, and Streaming Details

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Politics and religion has now gotten mixed with support for WC team: Kazi Sabir

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How violence against women is normalised in Bangladesh's chars

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Gazi Nazrul’s case raises bigger questions for parliament

The controversy surrounding Satkhira-4 MP Gazi Nazrul Islam poses two questions that must not be confused. Can Jamaat-e-Islami, by expelling him, make his parliamentary seat vacant? And can parliament ignore any serious misconduct merely because no express ground for disqualification has yet arisen? Under the law, the first answer is no. In a credible democracy, the second must also be no.

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Reports of Tk 120cr VAT evasion by Transcom unsubstantiated

Reports claiming Transcom Group evaded Tk 120 crore in VAT remain unverified as NBR continues its regulatory review without issuing any official demand notice.

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Reading Dhaka's waterlogging through the life of commodities

Every year, monsoon showers invariably turn stretches of Dhaka into shallow, stubborn lakes. You see rickshaw-pullers wading knee-deep through Green Road, office-goers abandoning footpaths for the middle of the street and, by evening, social media filling up with photographs of a submerged Bijoy Sarani, a stalled bus in Mirpur, or a child paddling a plastic tub past a tea stall. We call it a drainage problem, an engineering failure, a monsoon inevitability. It is all of these. But if we look a little closer—with the eyes of an anthropologist rather than an engineer—Dhaka’s waterlogging tells a different story about the strange, unfinished lives of the things we buy, use, and throw away.