Bangladesh

The interim government has decided to confer a state honour on two teachers of Milestone School and College who were killed in the fighter jet crash on the school compound at Uttara while trying to save their students. The teachers are Mahreen Chowdhury and Masuka Begum (Nipu). The Council of Advisers at its meeting on Thursday decided to confer a ...

Classes will resume at Milestone School and College at a limited scale from July 27 (Sunday). Initially, classes and exams will only be held for students in grades 9-12, school authorities said. Lower grades will take another week off. Milestone School and College spokesman Shah Bulbul informed this on Wednesday night. He said, “Our academic activities will resume from Sunday. ...

A Biman Bangladesh Airlines, arriving from Dubai, returned to Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong, shortly after take-off on Thursday morning due to a technical malfunction. Flight BG 148, with 287 passengers on board, departed for Dhaka at 8:37AM but had to return shortly afterward due to a technical fault, landing safely back at the airport at 8:58AM. The aircraft ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia underwent some medical tests at Evercare Hospital in the capita early Thursday. She went to the hospital from her Gulshan residence around 1:48AM for some tests as per the advice of her medical board. BNP media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan confirmed this. He said the BNP chairperson stayed at the hospital for approximately 35 minutes ...

A team of Detective Branch (DB) of police detained former Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque from his Dhanmondi residence in the capital on Thursday morning. Confirming the development, DB police Joint Commissioner (North) Rabiul Islam Bhuiyan said that the former chief justice was picked up earlier today. He was brought to the DB office. At least two cases have been ...

Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has expressed deep shock over the tragic death of many children and injuries to hundreds more after a fighter jet crashed into a school compound in Dhaka. “My heartfelt condolences to the people of Bangladesh. The loss of many children in this tragic accident and the heroic sacrifice of teacher Mahreen Chowdhury have ...

Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam has firmly said the government has no reason to underreport the causality figures. In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Shafiqul drew on his decades-long experience in reporting on major disasters and said it was ‘virtually impossible’ to hide the number of casualties from a disaster in Bangladesh. As someone who has reported on numerous ...

The identities of six people, who died in the air force fighter jet crash into Milestone School and College at Uttara, are yet to be determined, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The bodies are currently kept at the morgue of the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Dhaka, according to a media release from the ministry. Under the supervision ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Yōko Iwata Takeshi has expressed deep condolences and sympathy over the tragic plane crash in Uttara, Dhaka. In a message sent to Bangladesh’s Foreign Affairs Advisor Md. Towhid Hossain, the Japanese minister conveyed his heartfelt sentiments. On Tuesday (July 22), Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs released the statement. In his condolence message, Minister Iwata said, “I am ...

Aryan Nasraf Nafi, 9, a class I student of Milestone School and College in Dhaka’s Uttara, succumbed to his injuries early Wednesday after battling for life for two days. He breathed his last at about 12:15AM at the ICU of National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute. According to the hospital resident surgeon Dr Shawon Bin Rahman, ”Nafi, whose 95 per ...