Bangladesh

Law Minister Md Asaduzzaman has said that Jamaat-e-Islami has accepted that its role and position during the 1971 Liberation War were not right. Asaduzzaman made the remarks on Friday at a book launch ceremony written by lawyer Barrister Abdur Razzaq at a hotel in Gulshan, Dhaka. The law minister said Barrister Razzaq’s proposal for Jamaat to apologise over its role ...

Bangladesh on Friday sought Bhutan’s support for revitalising SAARC for the collective benefit of the region and its people, as Bhutanese Prime Minister Dasho Tshering Tobgay made a brief transit stopover in Dhaka. Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan and State Minister for Foreign Affairs Humaiun Kobir received the Bhutanese Prime Minister at Hazrat Shahjalal ...

India on Friday said New Delhi would take “all necessary actions to protect its interests” amid Bangladesh’s review of 101 bilateral agreements signed during the previous Awami League government. Addressing a weekly briefing, Indian Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said New Delhi had seen media reports about the review but had received no official communication from Dhaka. “We ...

Mirza Faisal Amin, younger brother of President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, has collected a BNP nomination form to contest the upcoming Thakurgaon-1 by-election. Faisal, president of the Thakurgaon district BNP, had the nomination form collected on his behalf from the party’s central office in Dhaka on Tuesday afternoon. Thakurgaon district BNP General Secretary Poygam Ali collected the form for Faisal. ...

The government has no involvement or bias in the Tk 666-crore tax case of Grameen Kalyan as the matter rests entirely with the judiciary, said Information and Broadcasting Adviser Zahed Ur Rahman on Tuesday (September 15). Speaking at a press conference on progress in government activities, the adviser stressed that the lawsuit will take its natural legal course. He emphasized ...

The government does not know about the Election Commission’s (EC) proposed dates for the seven-phase Union Parishad (UP) elections, State Minister for Local Government Mir Shahe Alam said on Tuesday. He made the remarks while speaking to reporters at the Secretariat on September 15. The state minister said the government learned about the proposed dates from newspapers, social media and ...

Banned Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader and six other party leaders have been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity during the July movement. The three-member International Crimes Tribunal-2, led by Justice Nazrul Islam Chowdhury, delivered judgement on Tuesday (September 14). The two other members of the tribunal are Judge Md Manjurul Basid and Judge Nur Mohammad Shahriar Kabir. ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has met the families of two army personnel, who were killed in a shell explosion during a tank-firing exercise at the Hathazari Field Firing Range in Chattogram, assuring them that the government and the armed forces would stand by them. The meeting was held at the Prime Minister’s Office in Tejgaon on Tuesday morning. During the ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Monday expressed hope that the gas supply to industries would return to its previous level from Tuesday, as the government has resolved the problem caused by an accident at one of the country’s two floating LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminals. “Hopefully, InshaAllah, from tomorrow [Tuesday] evening, gas supply will return to the level as it ...

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen paid a courtesy call on State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shama Obaed Islam at her office in Dhaka on Monday. During the meeting, the state minister recalled the successful visit of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman to China and expressed appreciation for China’s continued support for Bangladesh’s development, particularly in infrastructure, human development and capacity ...