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Bangla Press Desk: A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck northeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).The earthquake occurred at 10.27pm local time (1757 GMT)...
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...
Staff Reporter: The alleged deranged mass shooter who shot and killed 10 people in a “racially motivated” rampage in a Buffalo supermarket faced a judge hours after the Saturday afternoon massacre. Payton Gendron, 18, of Conklin, New York, wore...
Staff Reporter: US President Joe Biden took a tumble as he was riding his bicycle near his beach home in the state of Delaware yesterday morning, but was unhurt. A video from a White House pool report showed the 79-year-old president immediately...
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