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The US Coast Guard basically gave Chattogram port a perfect score after checking if it follows international security rules. The inspection team spent a couple of days looking over everything and sent back a report with zero problems found, which the port authority says is pretty huge for them...

A Dhaka court handed journalist Anis Alamgir a five-day remand after cops said he posted stuff online about potential attacks on the July Memorial Museum and the chief adviser's house. Prosecutors claimed he was backing the banned student league and working to mess with state security, but his...

Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus dropped some commemorative postal stuff for Victory Day at the State Guest House Jamuna, with a bunch of government officials standing around for the ceremony. The whole event was basically about rolling out a stamp, envelope, and seal to mark the anniversary of when...

Bangladesh and India are doing their annual thing where they swap military people for Victory Day stuff. Ten folks from India showed up in Dhaka, with eight being war vets and two active duty officers. Meanwhile, Bangladesh sent eight freedom fighters and two serving military officers over to...

Bangladesh cricket captains Najmul Hossain Shanto and Mehidy Hasan Miraz got into some playful trash talk ahead of their charity exhibition match at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium. The two squads are loaded with national team players, and the whole thing is being run by the Cricketers...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir promised his party would protect the July uprising fighters if they win the election. He said those activists are worried about their safety after the interim government steps down, and BNP wants to make sure they stay secure under any new...

Bangladesh jewelers just jacked up gold prices again, adding another 1,470 taka per bhori to hit 217,067 taka. The Bangladesh Jewellers' Association pricing committee signed off on this after meeting up, and it comes right after they already bumped prices by over 3,000 taka just a couple of days...

South African spinner Simon Harmer grabbed the ICC Men's Player of the Month award after absolutely torching Bangladesh's Taijul Islam and Pakistan's Mohammad Nawaz in the voting. The 36-year-old bowler snagged 17 wickets across a two-match series against India, helping his squad pull off their...

Kim Aris is basically freaking out because he has no idea if his 80-year-old mom Aung San Suu Kyi is even alive anymore. The Myanmar junta has kept her locked up since they took over back in 2021, and he hasn't heard anything from her in years. She's got heart problems and other health issues...

The press secretary for Bangladesh's chief adviser basically shut down any chance of the Awami League getting into the next election. Shafiqul Alam said no democratic country would let a group run by someone he called a terrible criminal do anything political. He pointed out that Sheikh Hasina...

Bangladesh's junior hockey squad pulled off their best showing ever at the World Cup in India and got handed serious cash for their trouble. The team grabbed 17th place out of 24 squads while winning the Challenger Trophy, and defender Amirul Islam went absolutely nuts with 18 goals across six...

Pakistan threw shade at whoever attacked UN peacekeepers in Kadugli, Sudan, after six Bangladeshi soldiers with UNISFA got killed and others were wounded. The government sent condolences to Bangladesh and said they stand with families dealing with the aftermath while calling Blue Helmets...

CID wrapped up their probe into Colonel Khandaker Nazmul Huda getting murder during the wild 1975 military chaos and basically said the killing happened, but nobody alive can get charged. His daughter filed the case decades later when she was grown, naming former president Ziaur Rahman and some...

A former Chhatra Dal boss said BNP's Narayanganj-2 pick, Nazrul Islam Azad, threatened to beat him up and kick him out of the neighborhood because he backed a different candidate. Abu Hanif Russel Bhuiyan used to run the district student wing and claims Azad went off on him for supporting...

China is dropping a massive project at Dhaka University to build housing for female students, and Ambassador Yao Wen said construction should kick off early next year after years of planning. The Bangladesh-China Friendship Hall is getting financed by the Chinese government with a budget of...

Bangladesh's U19 squad stomped Nepal after wrecking Afghanistan earlier in the Asia Cup tournament at the ICC Academy Ground. Mohammad Sobuj and Saad Islam bowled Nepal out for a pathetic 130 runs before Zawad Abrar went off with an unbeaten 70 that had seven boundaries and three sixes. The team...

A Dhaka court handed cops five days to grill three people connected to the guy who shot Sharif Osman Hadi from Inqilab Moncho. The accused are Saheda Parvin Samia, who's married to shooter Faisal Karim Masud, plus his friend Maria Akter Lima and brother-in-law Wahid Ahmed Sipu. Magistrate...

Bashundhara Shuvosangho got people together at Jakob Tower in Char Fasson to read old letters that freedom fighters sent back and forth with family during the war. Members got pretty emotional going through messages that showed how brutal things were, plus the determination fighters had to kick...

A Dhaka court told authorities to yank a specific batch of Nestlé KitKat off shelves after a food inspector from Dhaka South City Corporation filed paperwork saying the chocolate was sketchy. Kamrul Hasan claimed batch number 44399139 lacks proper registration and clearance from standards...

Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus dropped a Victory Day statement saying the interim government is wrapping up major reforms to get Bangladesh running properly after decades of authoritarian mess-ups. He said the country won independence back in the 70s after a brutal nine-month war, but...