Bangladesh

The government has deferred the Independence Award giving ceremony by one week to 16 April, it said in a notification on Tuesday. Due to unavoidable circumstances, the award giving ceremony will be held on 16 April instead of the earlier announced 9 April, said the notification issued by the Cabinet Division. It will be held at 4pm at Osmani Memorial ...

A Dhaka court on Tuesday ordered former Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury to be sent to jail in a case filed with Lalbagh Police Station over an attempted murder linked to the anti-discrimination movement. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Jewel Rana passed the order as police produced Chowdhury before the court and pleaded for a two-day remand in the case. The ...

Pakistan High Commissioner to Bangladesh Imran Haider paid a courtesy call on Industries Minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir at his office on Tuesday (7 April), where both sides discussed ways to expand bilateral trade and investment. During the meeting, they explored opportunities to enhance cooperation in the industrial sector and addressed various issues of mutual interest. The industries minister said there ...

BNP Secretary General and Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and his wife Rahat Ara Begum left for Singapore on Monday night for medical check-ups. They departed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at around 11:55pm on a Singapore Airlines flight. Shayrul Kabir Khan, a member of the BNP’s media cell, said that the visit is for ...

The Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has detained former Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury from her Dhanmondi residence early today. According to sources, she was taken into DB custody at around 4:30am on Tuesday from her residence on Road 8/A in the Dhanmondi area of the capital. The DB has not yet issued any ...

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Monday approved five development projects with an estimated total cost of Tk483.43 crore. Of the total project cost, Tk390.84 crore will be financed from the government exchequer, while Tk92.59 crore will be sourced through project loans or grants. The approval came at the ninth ECNEC meeting of the 2025-26 fiscal ...

The Australian government officially cancelled the visa of prominent Bangladeshi Islamic scholar Shaykh Ahmadullah on Sunday. The Department of Home Affairs took the decision following similar action against popular religious speaker Mizanur Rahman Azhari. The authorities enforced the measure as Ahmadullah prepared to depart from Sydney Airport. It follows the forced departure of Azhari over allegations of praising Hitler and ...

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman on Monday warned that the opposition alliance will implement the referendum verdict with or without the support of the parliament to prevent a return of fascist rule in the country. The people voted in favour of crucial state reforms by choosing “yes” in the referendum, and the Jamaat-led 11-party alliance has always supported people’s “supreme ...

A European Union (EU) delegation led by its Ambassador to Bangladesh Michael Miller on Monday met Prime Minister Tarique Rahman. The meeting was held at the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Division office in the Bangladesh Secretariat here, said the PM’s deputy press secretary, Jahidul Islam Rony.

The body of Abdullah Al Mamun, a Bangladeshi worker who was killed in Saudi Arabia after being burnt in a missile attack during the Middle East war, has reached the country. Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Ariful Haque Choudhury received the body at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) at 9:45am on Monday, after it arrived by a Saudi Airlines ...