Evening Brief

No fire station at Gulshan-Banani, DNCC mayor blames Rajuk

Despite being two of the major hubs of the capital, Gulshan and Banani does not have any fire stations.

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Is Russia weaponizing oil after natural gas misfire?

Russia plans to cut its oil production by 500,000 barrels per day starting in March, or about 5% of total current output, in retaliation to Western price caps and embargoes on its exports of crude oil and refined oil products.

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Nation set to pay homage to language martyrs Tuesday

The nation is set to observe the 'Shaheed Dibash' (Martyrs Day) and the International Mother Language Day on Tuesday with due respect.

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The central Shaheed Minar Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka Tribune

UN Bangla font now in Unicode

United Nations Development Program (UNDP), on International Mother's Language day, has launched the Unicode version, with seven different iterations, of the UN Bangla font to ease access to the internet for Bengali language users.

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2023 SSC exams routine published

The routine for this year's Secondary School Certificate (SSC) was published on Monday.

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File photo of students taking the SSC exams Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune

PM Hasina to UN: Help us relocate Rohingyas to Bhasan Char

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday urged the United Nations to help Bangladesh in relocating Rohingyas to Bhasan Char.

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A view of sheds and concrete structures built for thousands of displaced Rohingya from Myanmar on Bhasan Char island in Bangladesh, December 29, 2020 Reuters

Gulshan blaze: Another dies, death toll now 2

Another person who suffered injuries during last night's fire in a residential building in Gulshan-2 died at a city hospital early today. 

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A fire broke out on the seventh floor of a multistorey building in Gulshan Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka Tribune