Bangladesh

Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader has been shifted to a cabin from the ICU on Wednesday after his condition improved further. “He is doing well,” said Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Prof Dr Abu Nasar Rizvi, who is now accompanying the ailing minister. “Doctors are preparing to conduct a bypass surgery next week,” Rizvi said. Quader’s condition has ...

Dhaka, Mar 13 : Voters of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) are casting ballots to elect the new executive committee for 2019-20 period. Voting in the two-day polls began at 10am on Wednesday and will continue until 5pm with one-hour break. Balloting will resume from 10am Thursday and continue until 5pm, said Kazi Jaynal Abedin, member of SCBA election conducting ...

Photo: Five students of Dhaka University (DU) start hunger strike at the foot of Raju Sculpture on Tuesday evening, demanding fresh elections to its central student union and hall unions. Dhaka, Mar 13 : The hunger strike of five Dhaka University students rolled into the second day on Wednesday demanding reelection to the Central Students’ Union (Ducsu). They started the ...

Rohingya refugees. File photo Dhaka, Mar 13 : US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller has welcomed the government’s assurances that any relocation of Rohingyas to Bhashan Char island will be fully voluntary based on informed consent. He also welcomed assurances that those who choose to go will have free movement off the island to maintain connections with rest of ...

Newly appointed British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson Presents his credentials to President Abdul Hamid on Tuesday. Photo: PID Dhaka, Mar 12 : Newly appointed British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson on Tuesday said there is a long list of things that Britain and Bangladesh work together through very close diaspora links, long historic connections and ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ordered authorities to make arrangement so that specialized doctors can privately practice medicine in their government sanctioned work spaces. While presiding over the weekly meeting of the Executive Committee of National Economic Council (Ecnec), PM Sheikh Hasina said this while nodding to the ‘Government Hospital 500 bed extension project’, said Planning Minister MA Mannan. “The ...

Dhaka, Mar 12 : A number of student organisations and alliances that contested the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) election are demonstrating on the campus demanding fresh polls. The first Ducsu election in 28 years was marred by allegations of irregularities. Awami League’s student wing Bangladesh Chhatra League activists have been demonstrating in front of the vice-chancellor’s residence since ...

A United Nations human rights investigator on Myanmar has voiced deep concern at Bangladesh’s plan to relocate 23,000 Rohingya refugees to a remote island, saying it may not be habitable and could create a “new crisis”. Bangladesh says moving refugees to Bhasan Char — a name meaning “floating island” — will ease chronic overcrowding at Cox’s Bazar, where some 730,000 ...

Quota reform movement leader Nurul Haq Nur (left) and BCL general secretary Golam Rabbani. File photo Dhaka, Mar 12 : Quota reform movement leader Nurul Haq Nur was elected vice-president (VP) of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) in Monday’s elections. DU Vice-Chancellor Md Akhtaruzzaman announced the results from Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban around 3:20am on Tuesday. Nur is ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina speaks in the parliament while participating in the general discussion on the President’s speech and delivering her winding-up speech on Monday, Mar 11, 2019. Photo: PID Dhaka, Mar 11 : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday reiterated her call to the Jayiya Oikyafront (JOF) MPs-elect to join parliament as she said the ruling party wants a ...