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Dhaka: Bangladesh Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said that the country would receive two million doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine (Covishield) from India as a "gift" on Wednesday.Maleque confirmed to IANS that a…

Dhaka: Recalling India's role in the 1971 Liberation War, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said "India is our true friend" during a virtual meeting with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi."India helped us in the war of 1971…

Dhaka, Policenama Online -Child kidnappers have become quite active in the capital of Bangladesh and on its outskirts. The police have arrested four women for allegedly abducting kids, and rescued three children, in the past few days.The…

Dhaka : The Teesta river dispute between India and Bangladesh is old. The Teesta river originates from the state of Sikkim in India and joins the Jamuna (Brahmaputra) river of Bangladesh via West Bengal. About one crore people in five…

Dhaka, Policenama Online - Bangladesh on Wednesday marked four years of a terror attack at an upscale cafe in Dhaka which claimed the lives of 20 civilians, mostly foreigners, and two policemen.The attack at the Holey Artisan cafe on this…

Dhaka, Policenama Online - Bangladesh Defence Secretary Abdullah Al Mohsin Chowdhury on Monday died at a hospital here due to the novel coronavirus, the government has confirmed.Chowdhury died during treatment in Dhaka's Combined Military…

Dhaka, Policenama Online - The Bangladesh government has flagged 27 more areas as COVID-19 red zones on the basis of coronavirus mortality and infection rates, it was reported on Monday.The Ministry of Public Administration marked the zones…

Dhaka, Policenama Online - Bangladeshi authorities have put Cox's Bazar Municipality on lockdown declaring some areas in the district near the Rohingya refugee camps as coronavirus red zone for maximum risk of infection, the media…

Dhaka, Policenama Online - Five Bangladeshi and international organisations have written to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asking her to take action guaranteeing press freedom amid an alarming surge in physical and judicial attacks on…

Dhaka, Policenama Online -  Road transport services, including buses and minibuses, resumed across Bangladesh on Monday after being suspended for more than two months in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.Mosharref Hossain, general…