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Mridha Shihab Mahmud

Mridha Shihab Mahmud is a writer, content editor and photojournalist. He works as a staff reporter at News Hour. He is also involved in humanitarian works through a trust called Safety Assistance For Emergencies (SAFE). Mridha also works as film director. His passion is photography. He is the chief respondent person in Mymensingh Film & Photography Society. Besides professional attachment, he loves graphics designing, painting, digital art and social networking.

EC publishes gazette of newly elected MPs

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Feb 14, 2026

The Election Commission (EC) has published a gazette notification on the results of the 13th National Elections with details of 297 newly elected Members of Parliament (MPs). The gazette was issued on Friday night under the...
Erdogan names top Istanbul prosecutor as justice minister

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Feb 14, 2026

Turkey’s official gazette said early Wednesday that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had appointed the top public prosecutor of Istanbul as his new justice minister. The reason behind the move, which would also see the appointment of...
Ford results dented by tariffs, supplier outage

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Feb 14, 2026

Due to a supplier disruption and an unexpectedly high tariff hit, Ford posted lower-than-expected fourth-quarter operating results on Tuesday. When the EV expenditures were taken out of the equation, the large US manufacturer, which had earlier...
China congratulates BNP on election success

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Feb 14, 2026

The Chinese Embassy in Dhaka today congratulated the people of Bangladesh on the successful conduct of the 13th National Parliamentary Election and expressed readiness to work with the new BNP government. “Congratulations to the people of...
BNP clinches landslide victory with two-thirds majority in national polls

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Feb 13, 2026

In the 13th general elections, which were held Thursday amidst celebrations, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won a resounding victory with a majority of more than two-thirds, enabling the BNP-led coalition to create the next government....
US deploys 200 troops to train Nigerian military

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Feb 12, 2026

According to a US Africa Command official on Tuesday, the US will send 200 troops to Nigeria to help the military in the west African nation combat Islamist organizations. According to the Wall Street Journal, the...
Cyclone Gezani leaves ‘monstrous’ damage in Madagascar

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Feb 12, 2026

The second-largest city in Madagascar, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, was battered by Cyclone Gezani on Tuesday, with wind gusts of up to 250 kilometers (155 miles) per hour. “It’s monstrous. Everything is devastated,...
APCs, RATs deployed, K-9 Unit intensifies security across capital ahead of nat’l polls

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Feb 12, 2026

Authorities have placed Rapid Action Teams (RATs) and Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs) in strategic parts of the capital as part of a massive security operation in advance of tomorrow’s 13th general elections. To protect the people...
Over 100,000 fled Sudan’s Kordofan since October: UN

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Feb 11, 2026

As warfare intensifies throughout the broad southern area, the United Nations announced on Tuesday that over 100,000 people had fled Sudan’s troubled Kordofan since October. The Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have...
Latam-GPT: a Latin American AI to combat US-centric bias

by Mridha Shihab Mahmud - Feb 11, 2026

Move over ChatGPT — on Tuesday, Chile will launch Latam-GPT, an open-source artificial intelligence model designed to combat biases built by the primarily US-centric industry. Developped by the Chilean National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA), Latam-GPT...