Tripura floods, landslides death toll rises to 23

Heavy rains have triggered devastating floods and landslides in Tripura, killing at least 23 people and displacing more than 65,000 residents, authorities reported on Friday. Television footage captured scenes of army personnel navigating ferry boats through waterlogged streets, where cars and buses lay stuck. The widespread flooding has forced nearly 1.7 million people have been…

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Army given magistracy power

In order to improve law and order, the government last night gave the power of magistracy to commissioned army officers for 60 days. The officers will act as executive magistrates across the country, said a circular of the public administration ministry. An officer with magistracy power can arrest and send an individual to jail. In…

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Govt to launch hotline for minorities

The government wants to start a hotline for the safety of religious minorities in Bangladesh from tomorrow. AFM Khalid Hossain, Advisor to the Interim Government’s Ministry of Religion, said this in response to questions and suggestions from journalists at a press conference. He said, if there is any attack or violence against the minorities, if…

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‘Bangladesh will build a student camp in the future’

The former central president of the organization and the secretary of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Dhaka Metropolitan North Branch commented that ‘Agami Bangladesh will build Bangladesh Islami Student Camp’. Rezaul Karim. He made this comment as the main speaker at the staff gathering of Dhaka Metropolitan West Branch of Chhatra Shibir at Pallabir 2nd Ward Community Center…

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Refugee and Humanitarian Assistance

The United States is the largest single provider of humanitarian assistance worldwide. Total U.S. humanitarian assistance worldwide was nearly $13 billion in fiscal year 2021, including funding from the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration and the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for ​Humanitarian Assistance. The primary goal of U.S. humanitarian assistance…

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