Bangladesh

A total of 73,182 Bangladeshi pilgrims have reached Saudi Arabia on 189 Hajj flights so far, ahead of the holy Hajj scheduled for 26 May. A total of 18 pilgrims have died so far. The information was disclosed on Thursday (21 May) through the daily bulletin of the IT Helpdesk on the Hajj portal of the Ministry of Religious Affairs. ...

Australia has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting Rohingya refugees and vulnerable host communities in Bangladesh amid what it described as the largest protracted refugee crisis in the region. Earlier this week, Australia’s Humanitarian Coordinator Steve Scott and Australian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Susan Ryle visited refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar as part of a high-level delegation organised by the World ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Wednesday laid the foundation stone of the National Disaster Management Research and Training Institute (NDMRTI) building in the Sataish Chourasta area of Dharpara in the city. The premier laid the foundation stone around 2pm. Disaster Management and Relief Minister Asadul Habib Dulu, State Minister M Iqbal Hossain, Secretary Md Saidur Rahman Khan and other senior ...

A Dhaka court on Wednesday sentenced Bidisha Ershad, former wife of late president Hussain Muhammad Ershad, to two years of rigorous imprisonment in a fraud case over the sale of a residential flat. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Jamshed Alam delivered the verdict and also fined her Tk10,000. The court said she would have to serve an additional month in jail if ...

The United Nations and its humanitarian partners have appealed for $710.5 million in international assistance to meet the urgent needs of Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar camps and Bhasan Char, alongside support for Bangladeshi host communities affected by the prolonged crisis. The appeal, launched in coordination with the Bangladesh government, comes as growing global instability and mounting humanitarian pressures force ...

Opposition leader in parliament and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman has expressed strong concern over what he described as the “demise” of an independent judicial secretariat, questioning the government’s commitment to judicial independence. In a post published on his verified Facebook page on Wednesday (20 May), Dr Rahman criticised what he alleged to be growing political influence over the ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Wednesday called upon the members of Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party (VDP) to perform their duties with utmost discipline and strictly following the chain of command. “In any country, adherence to the ‘chain of command’ and ‘discipline’ is an essential and mandatory principle for every disciplined force. If there is even the slightest negligence ...

Prime Minister’s Advisor on Education and Primary and Mass Education, Mahdi Amin held a meeting with UK Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum Alex Norris MP at the British Home Office on Tuesday (19 May). Bangladesh’s Acting High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr M Nazrul Islam, and British Deputy High Commissioner in Dhaka James Goldman were also ...

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shama Obaed Islam met Morocco’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates Nasser Bourita in Rabat on Tuesday and discussed ways to strengthen bilateral relations and expand cooperation across multiple sectors. The two leaders highlighted the importance of sustained high-level exchanges in advancing political ties between Bangladesh and Morocco. During the meeting, the ...

Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday held separate meetings with International Labour Organization (ILO) Country Director in Bangladesh Max Tunon and a delegation from China State Construction Engineering Corporation at the Secretariat. The meetings discussed expanding development cooperation in different sectors, including workers’ welfare, urban management and infrastructure development, said a press release. ...