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Update : 20 Mar 2023, 09:47 AM

Bangladesh's first submarine base starts operation Monday

Bangladesh is set to operationalize its very first submarine base with modern basin facilities for the Navy at Pekua of Cox's Bazar to provide safe jetty facilities to submarines and warships at the harbour.

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The new base will provide modern berthing facilities for the Navy's two submarines, giving them protection from air attacks and allowing rapid deployment into the Bay of Bengal Courtesy

UN holds rare conference on global water crisis

With water scarce in some places, in excess elsewhere, polluted or otherwise problematic, the United Nations addresses this week a global crisis that has been long overlooked even as the welfare of billions of people is at stake.

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Momen: LDC graduates should be rewarded, not punished

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Sunday said LDC graduation is a success story – so, the graduates should be rewarded, not punished.

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File photo: Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen briefs reporters on the recent Bangladesh visit of his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, at a press conference in Dhaka on August 7, 2022 Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune

Slum dwellers install CCTV cameras with own money

Dwellers of Kalyanpur slum in the capital have purchased and installed closed-circuit television cameras (CCTV) with their own money to rid the incidents of theft and mugging inside the slum area.

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Behind the ‘inhuman' Hajj packages

Many aspirants will not be able to perform Hajj this year as the ticket price and accommodation costs have risen sharply due to collusion by a so-called syndicate that comprises both public and private stakeholders.

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File photo of Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrims on a Saudi Arabia-bound flight at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka Dhaka Tribune

Madaripur crash: Accident due to reckless driving

Police said that the cause of the bus accident on the Dhaka-Bhanga expressway at Shibchar in Madaripur was due to excessive speed of the vehicle.

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Emad Paribahan lost control and fell down the expressway in Qutubpur area of Shibchar on Sunday Bangla Tribune

Shakib completes graduation

Ace Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib al Hasan always makes a way to create headlines on and off the field. 

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Shakib al Hasan shakes hands with Education Minister Dr. Dipu Moni during the convocation ceremony of American International University-Bangladesh in Dhaka Sunday
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