Authorities urge calm after fire near Rooppur nuclear plant
Officials from the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Project have urged the public not to be misled by misinformation or rumours surrounding a recent fire that broke out near the plant in Pabna. Earlier on Thursday, Sharful Ahsan Bhuiyan, assistant director of the Pabna Fire Service, had reported the fire. According to the project authorities, the incident occurred at 12:20pm near an artificial canal built to maintain water flow from the Padma and Ichhamati rivers, while workers were clearing dumped wooden waste. A few workers from Imamul Enterprise, who were on site, immediately informed the project’s control room. The control room quickly notified the project’s own fire unit, the Rooppur Modern Fire Station, and the Green City Fire Station, who jointly extinguished the flames.
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November 07, 2025 07:13 UTC
Case filed over murder of ‘BNP activist’ Sarwar in Chattogram shooting
The family of Sarwar Hossain Babla, who was shot and killed during a BNP event in Chattogram, has filed a case over his murder. Seven suspects have been named in the case filed by Sarwar’s father Abdul Quader on Friday, said Jashim Uddin, the chief of Bayezid Bostami Police Station. Two of the suspects implicated in the case have been identified by single names as Raihan and Emon. Another 15-16 unidentified individuals have also been listed as suspects, OC Jashim said. Following the incident, Chattogram Metropolitan Police Commissioner Hasib Aziz told the media that the killing had “targeted” Sarwar.
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November 07, 2025 06:51 UTC
Fire destroys 15 shops in Lakshmipur
Fifteen shops have been destroyed in a fire in Lakshmipur’s Ramgati Upazila. The blaze broke out in a market in the Alexander Bazar area early on Friday morning, according to Khokon Majudar, station officer of the Ramgati Fire Service. Locals said the fire originated from an electrical short circuit at a grocery shop owned by a man named Rasel and quickly spread to adjacent shops. By that time, 15 shops had been reduced to ashes. “Initially, we believe the fire started from an electrical short circuit,” Majudar said.
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November 07, 2025 06:51 UTC
ICC finalises venues for 2026 T20 World Cup, to be co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka
ICC finalises venues for 2026 T20 World Cup, to be co-hosted by India and Sri LankaThe International Cricket Council (ICC) has confirmed five venues in India for the 2026 Men’s T20 World Cup, which will be jointly hosted by Sri Lanka. According to espncricinfo, the ICC has shortlisted two venues in Colombo and Kandy to host matches in Sri Lanka. Apart from hosts India and Sri Lanka, the teams that have earned automatic qualification include Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, South Africa, the United States, and the West Indies, the top seven finishers from the 2024 T20 World Cup. Italy, who will make their first-ever appearance in a T20 World Cup, and the Netherlands qualified from Europe. India are the defending champions, having defeated South Africa in the 2024 T20 World Cup final in Barbados.
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November 07, 2025 06:31 UTC
Flights delayed at Delhi airport after technical glitch
Passengers wait at Terminal 2 of Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, July 1, 2024. REUTERSPassengers wait at Terminal 2 of Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, July 1, 2024. REUTERSAircraft movement at Delhi airport was hampered on Friday because its Air Traffic Control system suffered a technical problem, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) said after several flights were disrupted at one of the world's busiest airports. The AAI said a technical issue in the Automatic Message Switching System, which supports Air Traffic Control data, caused the disruption. Delhi airport handled about 78 million passengers in 2024, making it the ninth busiest airport in the world, according to Airports Council International.
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November 07, 2025 06:13 UTC
Recently returned expatriate worker shot dead in Khulna
A Bangladeshi expatriate worker has been shot dead in Khulna’s Rupsha only a few days after he returned to the country. He had been living in Saudi Arabia for a long time and had returned home only a few days ago. When people heard the gunfire and came looking, the criminals fled.”The motive for the murder is not yet clear, OC Mahfuzur said. The body has been sent to the morgue at Khulna Medical College Hospital for a post-mortem examination. Sohel is the third person to be shot dead in Rupsha this year.
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November 07, 2025 06:11 UTC
Trump says Kazakhstan to join Abraham Accords
REUTERSUS President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords to have normalised relations between Israel and Muslim-majority nations. "Our anticipated accession to the Abraham Accords represents a natural and logical continuation of Kazakhstan’s foreign policy course — grounded in dialogue, mutual respect, and regional stability," it added. "Some of the countries represented here are going to be joining the Abraham Accords... and those announcements will be made over the next little while," Trump said. Trump has repeatedly said he wants to expand the accords that he brokered during his first term in the White House. The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain established ties with Israel in 2020 under the Trump-brokered Abraham Accords.
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November 07, 2025 05:04 UTC
NCP opens nomination forms for general election
Tasnim Jara, secretary of the NCP election management committee, speaks at a media briefing on Thursday at the party's temporary office in Dhaka's Banglamotor. -AgencyThe National Citizen Party (NCP) has begun distributing nomination forms both online and offline for the parliamentary polls. Tasnim Jara, secretary of the NCP election management committee, made the announcement at a media briefing on Thursday at the party's temporary office in Dhaka's Banglamotor. She said, "The nomination forms can be collected through three methods. He added, "The minimum price of the nomination form is set at Tk 10,000.
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November 07, 2025 05:02 UTC
Recently returned expatriate worker shot dead at Khulna’s Rupsha
A Bangladeshi expatriate worker has been shot dead in Khulna’s Rupsha only a few days since he returned to the country. The incident occurred next to a field owned by Manik Sardar in the Ramnagar area of Noihati Union around 9pm on Thursday. Mahfuzur Rahman, chief of Rupsha Police Station, said that 45-year-old Sohel Howladar hailed from Rahimnagar village. He had been living in Saudi Arabia for a long time and had returned home only a few days ago. Sohel is the third person to be shot dead in Rupsha this year.
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November 07, 2025 04:36 UTC
US flight cuts send airlines, travellers scrambling
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Wednesday ordered 10% flight cuts to start on Friday at 40 major US airports, including in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, affecting both commercial and cargo services. The FAA cited a safety assessment of air traffic controllers in ordering the unprecedented cuts, but officials insisted it is safe. FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford reiterated on Thursday that the agency would not hesitate to take further action to make sure air travel remains safe. During the closure, 13,000 air traffic controllers and 50,000 security screeners have been forced to work without pay. But even before the new flight cuts went into effect, customers said flight delays and cancellations were causing misery.
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November 07, 2025 04:30 UTC
Typhoon Kalmaegi brings rain and destruction to Vietnam as death toll nears 200 in Philippines
The storm made landfall in central Vietnam late on Thursday, uprooting trees, damaging homes, and triggering power outages, before weakening as it moved inland. Authorities warned of continuing heavy rainfall of up to 200 millimetres (8 inches) in central provinces from Thanh Hoa to Quang Tri. As the storm's death toll climbed in the Philippines, officials there said another 135 people remained missing and 96 had been injured. In Vietnam, no official casualty figures had been released but state-run Vietnam News Agency reported one fatality in Dak Lak province in a collapsed house. Vietnam and the Philippines are highly vulnerable to tropical storms and typhoons due to their locations along the Pacific typhoon belt, regularly experiencing damage and casualties during peak storm seasons.
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November 07, 2025 03:14 UTC
Fakhrul urges interim government to hold referendum on general election day
Senior BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has insisted that the national election and the referendum must take place on the same day. On Thursday at a memorial meeting in Jashore, Fakhrul said the party is in “agreement” on this. “No referendum will be allowed before the parliamentary election.”Addressing the interim government, he added: “Stop the delays and arrange to announce the election schedule. Otherwise, you will turn into a failed government.”Accusing some political parties of conspiring to derail the elections, Fakhrul said: “Some political parties are staging sit-ins and trying to destabilise the country. “Are political parties supposed to be mere toys for others?
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November 07, 2025 02:45 UTC
Police couple sentenced to death in Mymensingh for murder of co-worker over affair
A Mymensingh court has sentenced both members of a police couple to death for the murder of a fellow policeman over an extramarital affair. After a lengthy investigation and trial, Additional Sessions Judge Court Judge Harun-or Rashid delivered the verdict in the sensational murder case on Wednesday afternoon. After the incident, Saiful's mother Muleda Begum filed a murder case with the Kotwali Police Station in Mymensingh on Aug 13, 2014, accusing Alauddin, Neli, and two other unidentified people. ANOTHER DEATH SENTENCEOne man has also been sentenced to death, and a second to life in prison, in a separate murder case filed at Tarakanda Police Station in 2002. Convict Rubel Mia was sentenced to death, while convict Deen Islam was sentenced to life in prison.
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November 07, 2025 00:14 UTC
Trump gets new review of New York criminal hush money case
Trump gets new review of New York criminal hush money caseA federal appeals court on Thursday said Donald Trump deserves another chance to show his New York state hush money criminal case belonged in federal court, providing a fresh opportunity for the US president to try to erase his conviction. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg accused Trump of trying to influence the 2016 presidential election by covering up $130,000 of hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, who claimed to have had a sexual encounter with Trump. Trump was sentenced shortly before his Jan 20 inauguration for a second White House term. Trump's lawyer Jeffrey Wall told the 2nd Circuit in June that the criminal case fundamentally concerned federal campaign finance law, and prosecutors' emphasis on Hicks' testimony showed that Trump's official acts were central to their case. Steven Wu, a lawyer for Bragg's office, countered that Trump's White House discussions about "unofficial behavior" did not "transform those private conversations about private behavior into evidence of official acts."
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November 06, 2025 22:44 UTC
High Court grants bail to Latif Siddique, journalist Panna in Anti-Terrorism Act case
The High Court has granted bail to expelled Awami League leader and former minister Abdul Latif Siddique, and journalist Monjurul Alam Panna, both arrested in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act. Following the hearing, lawyer ZI Khan Panna said: “The court has granted bail to freedom fighter Latif Siddique and Monjurul Alam Panna. We will not allow anyone to speak against the Liberation War, independence, or the 1972 Constitution.”In the same briefing, Kader Siddique, brother of Latif Siddique, said: “The people of this country have faith in the judiciary. The following day, they were shown arrested in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act at Shahbagh Police Station and sent to jail. Sub-Inspector Amirul Islam of Shahbagh Police Station filed the case under the Anti-Terrorism Act the following day.
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November 06, 2025 22:26 UTC