Evening Brief

India eager to build airport in Bangladesh

India has expressed interest in building and operating an airport in Bangladesh.

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Bangla Tribune

EC: No irregularities will be tolerated in Gaibandha-5 by-polls

Election Commissioner Ahsan Habib on Tuesday said no irregularities would be tolerated this time in the by-election to the Gaibandha-5 constituency.

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File photo shows a general view of the Election Commission offices in Dhaka's Agargaon Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka Tribune

State minister: Bangladesh to get Adani's electricity from March

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid said that power will come to Bangladesh from the Adani power plant under construction in Jharkhand, India from next March.

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Bangla Tribune

4,100C collected as income tax, 2.85m submit returns

Some 2.85 million individual taxpayers submitted their returns in the first half of FY23 while the National Board of Revenue (NBR) collected Tk4,100 crore as income tax.

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Dhaka Tribune

Two Iranian teens face death penalty over protests

Two Iranian teenagers face the death penalty after being sentenced to be hanged over involvement in protests that have rocked the Islamic republic for months, a rights group said on Monday.

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File Photo: People take part in a protest against the Islamic regime of Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, in Istanbul, Turkey, December 10, 2022 Reuters

BSF orders inquiry as sniffer dog deployed on Bangladesh border gets pregnant

The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has ordered a court of inquiry into how a sniffer dog, deployed at a Border Outpost (BOB) on the Bangladesh border in Shillong, got pregnant.

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