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Minara Helen: The Trump administration is facing yet another immigration-related lawsuit after 14 green card holders were denied the ability to become U.S. citizens through naturalization.The individu...
Staff Reporter:The Spring Valley Fire Department was dispatched to 118 Lake Street just after 4:00 a.m. for a reported house fire. Additional reports indicated that at least nine people were trapped on the second floor of the multi-family house....
Minara Helen: 20,000 pilgrims from the United States have gone to Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj this year. Among them, there are about three thousand expatriate Bangladeshis in 20 states of the United States. However, this year, more than 2 millio...
Staff Reporter: An abandoned building of the Pakistan Embassy has been sold for 7.1 million dollars (77 crore 19 lakhs in Bangladeshi currency) in Washington D.C, USA. The embassy and the buyers of the building confirmed this information on Thurs...
Staff Reporter: Former U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Henry Kissinger has died at his home in Kent, Connecticut, at age 100. His death was announced by his consulting firm, Kissinger Associates. The cause of death was not re...
Noman Sabit: New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) have issued new legal guidelines to broadcast the call to prayer 82 times a year in New York. The adhan is supposed to be broadcast 1 t...
Staff Reporter: Richard "Rick" Slayman, the first human to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant, has died almost two months after the procedure. Slayman, who had end-stage kidney disease, underwent the transplant in Mar...
Noman Ibne Sabit: Street fairs are now taking place in the Bangladeshi community across the United States. Fraudsters have become vocal about these paths. As the Corona epidemic subsided, the Bangladeshi community in various states, including New...
Staff Reporter: The United States has officially recognized the killing of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar five years later as a "genocide and a crime against humanity." U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made the official announcement Monda...
Staff Reporter: Madeleine Albright, the first female Secretary of State in US history, has died of terminal cancer. She was 84 years old at the time of his death. Albright, a longtime foreign affairs expert, became Secretary of State in 1997 dur...
Staff Reporter: Police in California are searching for at least one suspect in connection with a mass shooting early Sunday in downtown Sacramento that claimed six lives and left 10 other people injured. Sacramento Police Chief Kathy Lester said...
Staff Reporter: A 21-year-old Syrian immigrant Zakaria Tahhan alias Zach Tahhan received a reward of 43 lakh taka (US dollars 50,000) for information leading to the capture of a gunman on a subway train in New York. At least 29 people, including...
Staff Reporter: President Joe Biden celebrated Eid al-Fitr on Monday, restoring celebrations of the Muslim holiday marking the end of Ramadan at the White House after his predecessor scrapped them. Muslims around the world typically abstain from...
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