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Pakistan Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar in Dhaka
United News of Bangladesh
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Pakistan Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar arrived in Dhaka on Saturday on a two-day visit to Bangladesh. Foreign Secretary Asad Alam Siam received the Pakistan Foreign Minister upon his arrival, a senior official at the...
Islamabad, Dhaka discuss food security, strengthen rice trade cooperation
Profit by Pakistan Today
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August 23, 2025
Pakistan’s Minister for Commerce, Jam Kamal Khan, met with Bangladesh’s Adviser for Food, Ali Imam Majumdar, in Dhaka on Friday to explore potential collaborations in food security. Both parties expressed satisfaction with the Memorandum of...
DPM/FM arrives in Dhaka on official visit
Associated Press of Pakistan
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August 23, 2025
- Advertisement - - Advertisement - - Advertisement - ISLAMABAD, Aug 23 (APP): Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Senator Muhammad Ishaq Dar, on Saturday arrived in Dhaka, on a landmark official visit from 23–24 August, at the...
Jam meets Bangladesh’s Adviser for Commerce, discuss ways to enhance bilateral trade
Pakistan Observer
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August 23, 2025
Federal Minister for Commerce, Jam Kamal Khan and Bangladesh’s Adviser for Commerce, Sk. Bashir Uddin, held in-depth discussions in Dhaka on Friday to advance economic cooperation, mutual investments and strengthen bilateral trade ties. Pakistan...
Dar set for Dhaka visit to boost Pak-Bangladesh ties
The Nation
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August 23, 2025
ISLAMABAD - Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar will pay a two-day official visit to Bangladesh from today (August 23), the Foreign Office said yesterday. Ishaq Dar is undertaking this visit at the invitation of the Government of Bangladesh. In Dhaka,...
How an eight-month pregnant 'nowhere woman' ended up 'illegal' in India and jailed in Bangladesh
The Economic Times
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August 23, 2025
In another life, 26-year-old Sunali Khatun might have lived an anonymous existence in Birbhum, West Bengal. Instead, she now finds herself in a Bangladesh jail, eight months pregnant, with no clarity over which country her unborn child will belong...
175 migrants deported from Benghazi to Bangladesh
The Libya Observer
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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has facilitated the voluntary return of 175 illegal migrants from Benghazi to Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The operation was carried out with support from the European Union’s Migrant...
Bootcamp of hope: Young Bangladeshis lead climate-smart ventures
The Business Standard
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August 23, 2025
As Bangladesh faces the growing impacts of climate change, a new wave of young entrepreneurs and women leaders is turning challenges into opportunities. The Master Bootcamp 2025, a two-day residential programme, has spotlighted climate-smart...
Claim of 10,000 Bangladeshi students given 'graduate pass' not true, says Zambry
The Malaysian Star
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August 23, 2025
PUTRAJAYA: A claim that 10,000 Bangladeshi students in Malaysia will be given 'graduate pass' to enable them to work in the country is untrue and baseless, says Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir. The Higher Education Minister said during the recent...
Minister denies claim of 10,000 Bangladeshi students getting graduate passes
The Sun Daily
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August 23, 2025
PUTRAJAYA: Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir has firmly denied claims that ten thousand Bangladeshi students in Malaysia will be granted graduate passes to work in the country. He stated that these allegations are completely...
Shariful M Khan becomes first Bangladeshi-American brigadier general in US Air Force
The Business Standard
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August 23, 2025
Shariful M Khan has become the first Bangladeshi-born American to be promoted to brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He received the promotion at a ceremony held at the Pentagon on 20 August, where the oath was administered by Gen...
Young Tigresses Roar Again: India Beat Bangladesh To Pick Back-to-Back Wins in SAFF Women’s Championship 2025
Times Now
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August 23, 2025
Football Updated Aug 23, 2025, 14:19 IST With such defensive assurance, the midfielders took charge, spraying passes wide and keeping Bangladesh constantly on the turn. India’s early pressure paid off swiftly. In what was billed as a clash of...
'Untrue': Zambry pans claim of 10k Bangladeshi students given 'graduate pass' Higher education minister says Kedah exco's statement irresponsible. Bernama 2 h ago ⋅ 4
Malaysiakini
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August 23, 2025
The claim that 10,000 Bangladeshi students in Malaysia will be given a “graduate pass” to enable them to work in the country is untrue and baseless, said Higher Education Minister Zambry Abd Kadir. He said during the recent visit of Bangladeshi...
6 KMs Dredging Completed on Gomati River; 48 KMs Still Pending in Tripura-Bangladesh Trade Route
Northeast Today
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August 23, 2025
Agartala, August 23, 2025: The dredging of a 6-kilometer stretch of the Gomati River aimed at establishing inland waterway connectivity between Tripura and Bangladesh has been completed, officials confirmed following a high-level inspection....
Youth injured in transformer blast dies in Dhaka
United News of Bangladesh
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A 28-year-old man, who sustained burn injuries following a transformer blast in Gendaria in Dhaka, died at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery on Friday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Mezbah Uddin, son of Moslem Uddin of...
Legal framework for detaining & deporting allegedly undocumented Bangladeshis: All you need to know
The Indian Express
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August 23, 2025
The Supreme Court last week agreed to hear a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking its intervention in the alleged detention of Bengali-speaking migrant workers in several states.The PIL filed by West Bengal Migrant Workers Welfare Board had...
Dhaka’s air continues to be ‘moderate’ with AQI score of 62
New Age Bangladesh
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United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka 23 August, 2025, 10:45 Representational image. Dhaka’s air quality continued to be in the ‘moderate’ zone on Saturday morning. With an air quality index score of 62 at about 9:01am, Dhaka ranked 35th on the list...
Dhaka-bound Jamuna Express train derails near airport station
New Age Bangladesh
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United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka 23 August, 2025, 12:38 Representational image. | Collected photo Dhaka-bound Jamuna Express train derailed near airport railway station on Saturday morning, halting train operation on the route towards the...
Pakistani foreign minister heads to Bangladesh for first time in 13 years
Business Recorder
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August 23, 2025
Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar flew to Bangladesh on Saturday as the nations, once bitter enemies after they split in 1971, seek to rebuild ties with regional power balances shifting. FM Dar is the most senior Pakistani official to visit Dhaka since...
Journalist Bibhuranjan’s last rites to be held in Dhaka this afternoon
BDNews24
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A day after his body was discovered in the Meghna River, veteran journalist-columnist Bibhuranjan Sarkar’s postmortem has been completed at Munshiganj's 250-bed General Hospital, officials have said. After the examination on Saturday noon, his...