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  US-Bangladesh ties to get stronger under new president: Miller

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 03:19pm on January 17, 2021

  United States ambassador to Bangladesh Earl Robert Miller has said that the Bangladesh-US relations will only get stronger with no major changes under the new Biden administration...

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  Taiwanese boat rescues 8 Bangladeshi among 22 crewmen

  New Age Online | Updated at 10:39am on January 17, 2021

  A Taiwanese fishing trawler has rescued 22 crewmen including eight Bangladeshi from a Panamanian freighter that had caught fire in the Philippine Sea, the Coast...

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  Man arrested for ‘raping schoolgirl’ in B’baria

  United News of Bangladesh . Brahmanbaria | Updated at 01:25pm on January 17, 2021

  Police have arrested a representative of a pharmaceutical company for allegedly raping a schoolgirl in Brahmanbaria on the pretext of false promise of marriage...

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  Meat trader killed in Dhaka road accident

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 02:08pm on January 17, 2021

  A meat trader was killed being run over by a pickup-van in Dhaka’s Shahjadpur area on Sunday morning...

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  Teenager stabbed to death in Keraniganj over playing badminton

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 02:00pm on January 17, 2021

  A boy was hacked to death and two others sustained injuries in a clash between two groups of teenagers over a trifling matter in Dhaka’s Keraniganj area on Saturday night...

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  Former DU English professor Kashinath Roy dies

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:54pm on January 17, 2021

  Former Dhaka University English Department professor Kashinath Roy died of multiple ailments at Dhaka Hospital on Sunday. He was 74. Dhaka University English Department professor...

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  Yeafesh Osman’s wife Bulah Ahmed dies

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:14pm on January 17, 2021

  Bulah Ahmed, wife of science and technology minister Yeafesh Osman, died while undergoing treatment at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka on Sunday...

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  Municipality polls end amid violence, irregularities

  New Age Online | Updated at 01:52pm on January 16, 2021

  Voting in the second phase elections to 60 municipalities was going on amid violence, irregularities and boycott by opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidates in some...