Bangladesh

Bangladesh has invited Japan to invest in the country, including in Maheshkhali Economic Zone, while assuring of providing all kinds of cooperation from the government’s side. Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority extended an invitation to Japanese investors in this regard, UNB reports. The invitation was given at the 5th Japan-Bangladesh public-private joint economic dialogue that was held online today. By turn, ...

Kishoreganj’s historic Sholakia Eidgah mosque Imam Abdus Salam Golap passed away on Monday night. He was 55. He suffered a stroke on Monday evening and, later, was taken to Kishoreganj 250-Bed General Hospital where he was declared dead. Abdus Salam’s namaj-e-janza will be held after Zuhr prayer on Tuesday. After that, he will be buried at Sholakia Bagh graveyard. He ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday came down heavily on a few parliament members as they are advocating against Article 70 in the Constitution despite the article has given sustainability to the government and thus the development. “Article 70 has given protection to democracy alongside further strengthening it to reach its benefit to the people. But, a few of our ...

Describing the Election Commission’s plan to hold elections to five city corporations by June this year as a trap of the government, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said their party will not be lured into the plot. “This time people and BNP won’t step into any trap of the government…we’ll overturn their trap,” he said while ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah: Soon after the independence of Bangladesh, four freedom fighters, Jamal Hasan, Anwar Ahmed, Mahmud Abdul Quayum and Syed Akhtar Ali, set out on a world cycle tour on a special mission. They wanted to thank the people of the world who supported Bangladesh’s Liberation War. They started their tour from the front garden of 32 Dhanmondi. They ...

Ganashasthaya Kendra founder and trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury has been kept on life support. He was taken to life support on Monday noon, said Ganashasthaya Kendra press adviser Jahangir Alam Mintu. He is currently under the treatment of Professor Brigadier General (Retd) Dr Mamun Mustafi, head of the Nephrology Department of Ganashasthaya Samaj Vittik Medical College. He said, “The condition ...

AKM Bahauddin Bahar, lawmaker of Cumilla-6 constituency, Cumilla Shop Owners Association, Cumilla City Mayor Arfanul Haque Rifat Panel Mayor Manzoor Quader Moni, donated Tk 26 lakh to the traders of Bangabazar which was burnt to ashes in a massive fire last week. The Awami League leader handed over a check for Tk 26 lakh to Helal Uddin, president of Bangladesh ...

The country’s total population stood at 16,98,28,911, according to the adjusted population in light of the PEC report of the sixth Population and Housing Census, 2022. Considering the 2.75 percent Net Coverage Error (NCE), some 46,70,295 people have been added to the initially enumerated population and thus the total number of population stood at 16,98,28,911, reports BSS. Out of the ...

Motorcycle will be allowed to ply on the highways, but not on Padma Bridge, during the Eid-ul-Fitr holidays. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader stated it to reporters after a meeting ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr at BRTA headquarters in the capital on Sunday. Earlier, the authorities banned motorcycle movement on the highways before Eid-ul-Azha to avert accidents. Quader also ...

If judges are the right hand in the judiciary, lawyers are the left hand, Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique has said. If one hand becomes disabled, then the work will not proceed as desired, he said at a function organised by Faridpur Bar Association on Sunday morning. Chaired by Ohiduzzaman, president of Faridpur district bar association, the meeting was conducted ...