Bangladesh

The High Court on Thursday granted six-month ad-interim bail to former Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) mayor Selina Hayat Ivy in five cases filed with Fatullah and Narayanganj Sadar Model police stations. The order was issued by a bench of Justice KM Zahid Sarwar and Justice Sheikh Abu Taher. Four of the cases relate to the killings of Abul Hossain Miji, ...

  Muhammed Shahed Rahman: A seminar on Bangladesh’s elections and relations with its neighbors, including India, was recently held in London. On Tuesday (February 24, 2026) evening, a seminar titled ‘Post-election Bangladesh’s Relations with India and its Neighbors’ was held at a hall in St. James’s Park, Central London, organized by the ‘Link India’ think tank (charity). The participants of ...

A Dhaka court here on Thursday ordered issuance of a Red Notice through Interpol to arrest Tulip Siddiq, niece of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in a case filed over allegedly taking a flat illegally from a private developer in the capital’s Gulshan-2 area. Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Sabbir Faiz passed the order, allowing a petition filed by ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Thursday said the current government will work to establish a liberal democratic state system with moral standards and dignity so that the country can move forward in all branches of knowledge and science, including education, literature, arts, science and technology. “I believe that politicizing education, research, arts and literature is never a sign of a ...

Palestine has withdrawn its candidate for the presidency of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly. Following the withdrawal of the Palestinian candidature, Bangladesh will now compete with Cyprus, a diplomatic source told UNB on Thursday. Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has nominated Foreign Minister Dr Khalilur Rahman for the position, said the source. Bangladesh floated her candidature ahead of ...

A cabinet meeting was held in the conference room of the Cabinet Division in the Bangladesh Secretariat here on Thursday. Prime Minister Tarique Rahman chaired the meeting, said Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Saleh Shibly. According to relevant sources, the first cabinet meeting was held on 18 February, a day after the swearing-in ceremony on 17 February. However, as it was ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has conferred the country’s second-highest civilian award “Ekushey Padak-2026”. The award giving ceremony began at 11:00am on Thursday at the capital’s Osmani Memorial Auditorium. Nine distinguished individuals and one institution have been honoured with this prestigious award this year in recognition of their outstanding and notable contributions in various fields. The award recipients are: Farida Akhtar ...

The process to appoint new governor for the Bangladesh Bank, replacing Dr Ahsan H Mansur, is currently underway. According to the sources, the Financial Institutions Division of the Ministry of Finance has submitted a proposal regarding the appointment to Finance Minister Ameer Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, who has reportedly approved it. Once the Prime Minister gives his consent, the proposal will ...

The government has fixed the minimum Fitra at Tk110 per person while the maximum Fitra at Tk2,805. The decision was taken at a meeting of the National Fitra Determination Committee held on Wednesday morning at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque conference hall, said a press release on Wednesday. Committee’s president and khatib of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque Mufti Muhammad Abdul ...

President Mohammad Shahabuddin and Prime Minister Tarique Rahman paid tribute to the martyrs of the Pilkhana killings on Wednesday morning. They laid wreaths at the graves of the fallen officers at the Banani Military Cemetery around 10:00am, marking the anniversary of the tragic killings at the then BDR headquarters in Pilkhana. Among those present were Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed, Chief ...