Bangladesh

Jatiya Nagorik Party (NCP) Convener Nahid Islam has called for objective research, writing and analysis on the July mass uprising, stressing the need to document its history from a neutral perspective. He made the call on Friday while speaking at the unveiling ceremony of the book “Journey of NCP,” the first publication written about NCP. He said the experiences of ...

Bangladesh Jamaat-e Islami-Ameer Shafiqur Rahman has said his party was not consulted over any international agreements concluded during the tenure of the interim government, contradicting recent remarks by the foreign minister. In a statement posted on his verified Facebook account on Friday, Dr Shafiqur said several agreements had been signed with different countries during the interim administration’s time in office, ...

A total of 165 Bangladeshi nationals have been repatriated from Libya with the assistance of the Bangladesh Embassy in Libya, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bangladesh), the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment, the Libyan authorities and the International Organization for Migration. According to officials, the returnees arrived in Bangladesh at around 5:30am on a flight operated by Buraq ...

BNP Chairman and Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Friday morning inaugurated a training workshop at the BNP chairman’s Gulshan office. Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) arranged the training workshop for its lawmakers ahead of the first session of the 13th National Parliament, said Prime Minister’s Additional Press Secretary Atiqur Rahman Rumon. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Standing Committee Members ...

Shocking allegations of corruption involving advisers of the former interim government are gradually coming to light. Not only that, serious accusations of corruption and irregularities have also been found against several officials who were appointed to different institutions on the advisers’ recommendations while they were in power. According to relevant sources, hundreds of complaints against former advisers have already been ...

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has described two advisers of the former interim government as the new “Mir Jafars” of Bengal, alleging that the 13th National Parliamentary Election was not conducted fairly. Party’s Nayeb-e-Ameer Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher made the remarks during a briefing at Jamaat’s central office in Moghbazar on Thursday. During the briefing, he mentioned the names of former Information Adviser ...

US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Paul Kapur paid homage to the graves of Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia on Thursday during his official visit to Dhaka. Paul Kapur arrived at the gravesite around noon, accompanied by US Ambassador Brent T Christensen. As renovation work is currently underway at President ...

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Shaikh Rabiul Alam on Thursday warned that route permits of bus companies will be cancelled if they charge extra fares during the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr travel period. The minister made the remarks while speaking to reporters after a meeting at the Secretariat on preparations to ensure a safe and smooth journey for passengers during Eid. He ...

A delegation of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Thursday met visiting S. Paul Kapur, the US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, to discuss Bangladesh–US relations and other issues of mutual interest. The five-member BNP delegation held the meeting at Gulshan residence US Ambassador to Bangladesh, in the morning, BNP media cell member Shairul Kabir Khan ...

Former prime minister Khaleda Zia is among 15 distinguished individuals selected for the Independence Award 2026. Alongside the key figures, five institutions will also receive the country’s highest civilian honour, according to a notification issued by Cabinet Division on Thursday. The government has decided to confer the award on 15 eminent individuals and five institutions in recognition of their outstanding ...