Bangladesh

National Citizen Party (NCP) Convener and Opposition Chief Whip Nahid Islam has accused the government of acting against the people and undermining democracy, calling on the home and energy ministers to resign over their failure to fulfil their responsibilities. He made the remarks on Friday while inaugurating a week-long leaflet distribution campaign in Dhaka protesting the deteriorating law and order ...

President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir visited Evercare Hospital in Dhaka on Friday morning (October 23) to see Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan. The President’s Press Wing confirmed the visit. During the visit, the President enquired about the minister’s health and treatment and wished him a speedy recovery.

The government is working to extend the validity of visas and iqamas for Bangladeshi expatriates stranded in Saudi Arabia, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shama Obaed Islam said. Shama Obaed received the body at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Friday morning. She said the government would provide all kinds of assistance to the victim’s family. She also handed over a ...

Japan is expected to arrange private-sector investments worth 1 trillion yen, equivalent to around US$6.35 billion, in Bangladesh over the next five years, according to a report published by Japan’s Nikkei Asia newspaper. The proposed investment arrangement is expected to be mentioned in a joint statement following a summit between Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique ...

Drawing on his political experience, Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmad Bir Bikram today said there is no possibility of Sheikh Hasina returning home even in the next 10 years. “My political experience says there is no possibility of Sheikh Hasina returning even in the next 10 years,” he said while talking to journalists at the district circuit house here. ...

Indian High Commissioner Dinesh Trivedi has assured the “Indian Media Correspondents’ Association, Bangladesh (IMCAB)” that steps are being taken to resolve the difficulties faced in securing Indian visas, particularly medical visas. The assurance came during a courtesy meeting with an IMCAB delegation at the conference room of the Indian High Commission in Baridhara, Dhaka, at 11:30am on Thursday. The delegation, ...

BNP Acting Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has accused the banned Awami League and an unnamed political party of jointly engaging in conspiracies and spreading misinformation against the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). He alleged that the behaviour and rhetoric of the two groups resembled each other, claiming that they continued to spread propaganda against the BNP as they had done ...

Land Minister Mizanur Rahman Minu has been transferred from Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) to PG Hospital in Dhaka for advanced treatment after his haemoglobin levels reportedly dropped to a dangerously low level. He was flown to Dhaka on a US-Bangla Airlines flight that departed Shah Makhdum Airport in Rajshahi at 8:45AM on Thursday. Upon arrival, he was to be ...

Driven to the brink of poverty by debt while her husband suffers from prolonged illness, Akhi faced a heartbreaking dilemma no mother should have to confront: selling her unborn child to survive. However, Akhi’s desperate plea for help through the media caught the attention of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, who then moved swiftly to support her family. Within an hour ...

Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Mia Golam Parwar on Wednesday accused the government of political immaturity, saying it had fallen into disarray within seven months of taking office. Speaking as the chief guest at the 49th founding anniversary programme of the Bangladesh Labour Party at its central office in Dhaka, Parwar urged the government to honour the July Charter referendum mandate and ...