The High Court has issued a rule asking the authorities to explain why 208 expatriates, who returned to Bangladesh after allegedly facing detention and punishment abroad for their involvement in the July movement, should not be awarded Tk25 lakh each as compensation. A High Court bench comprising Justice Fatema Najib issued the rule on Monday. The Secretary of the Ministry ...

Vote counting in key Indian state elections was underway Monday under tight security, with the focus on West Bengal, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party appeared set for victory. And in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, veteran politician MK Stalin was trailing, challenged by a political debutante — film star C. Joseph Vijay. Elections in five states and territories ...

Michael Carrick deflected fresh questions about becoming Manchester United’s permanent manager, but conceded that Sunday’s dramatic 3-2 victory over Liverpool that secured a return to the Champions League after two years away was ​one to enjoy. Kobbie Mainoo struck late to seal the victory after Liverpool fought back to erase ‌United’s early goals from Matheus Cunha and Benjamin Sesko. Mainoo, ...

A bilateral Reciprocal Trade Agreement (RTA) between Bangladesh and the United States was signed on 9 February, just three days before Bangladesh’s national parliamentary election. The agreement has drawn widespread debate and criticism for what appears to be a highly asymmetrical set of obligations. Critics argue that the deal imposes extensive and binding commitments on Bangladesh, while placing comparatively minimal ...

A writ petition has been filed challenging the legality of the overall actions taken during the tenure of the interim government led by former Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus. The petition questions the validity of various decisions made by the government, including the enactment of laws, formation of reform commissions and the signing of domestic and international agreements. It also ...

What should have been a vibrant harvest season in the country’s haor belt across seven districts has instead turned into widespread devastation. Excessive rainfall and hill torrents have submerged and washed away a large portion of this year’s only Boro rice crop. As a result, life in the haor areas and among farming communities has come to a standstill. The ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has held a meeting with officials concerned regarding the country’s closed textile and jute mills under the Ministry of Textiles and Jute. The meeting was held at the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Division office in the Bangladesh Secretariat on Monday (4 May) morning. Among those present were Commerce, Industries, Textiles, and Jute Minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir, the ...

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma paid a farewell call on Foreign Minister of Bangladesh Khalilur Rahman on Monday (4 May). The high commissioner thanked the foreign minister and the ministry of foreign affairs (MoFA) for their consistent cooperation in advancing India-Bangladesh relations. They also briefly reviewed the ongoing developments in bilateral relations and expressed optimism about the future ...

The body of PhD student Zamil Ahmed Limon, who was studying at the University of South Florida and was killed in the US state of Florida, has been brought back to Bangladesh. The aircraft carrying his remains landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 8:47am on Monday (4 May). According to a statement from the Bangladesh Embassy in ...

Britain is set to enter talks to join the European Union’s 78 billion pound loan ($106 billion) to Ukraine, the government said on Sunday, in a further sign of deepening European defence ties under rising US pressure. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected on Monday to tell a summit in Armenia’s capital Yerevan of the European Political Community – a ...