Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has said that a total of 175 Bangladeshi peacekeepers have been martyred while serving under United Nations peacekeeping missions since 1988. Speaking as the chief guest at a programme marking the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers at Senakunja in Dhaka Cantonment on Wednesday morning (10 June), the Prime Minister paid tribute to peacekeepers who made ...

Gold prices fell sharply in Bangladesh on Wednesday after the Bangladesh Jewellers Association (BAJUS) reduced the price of 22-carat gold by Tk6,591 per bhori. Under the revised rates, one bhori (11.664 grammes) of 22-carat gold now costs Tk222,782, down from Tk229,373. BAJUS announced the latest adjustment through a statement on Wednesday morning with the new rates coming into effect from ...

Lionel Messi scored within minutes of making his return from an injury scare as Argentina beat Iceland 3-0 in their final World Cup warm-up in Auburn, Alabama on Tuesday. Messi started on the bench as the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner is eased back to fitness after exiting Inter Miami’s 6-4 win over Philadelphia with muscle fatigue on 24 May. He ...

The Bangladesh Bank has decided to begin the process of winding up five troubled non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs). As part of the move, administrators will be appointed after dissolving the institutions’ boards of directors. The central bank has said that individual depositors of these institutions will be able to recover up to Tk1 million each. The decision was taken at ...

Mahdi Amin, adviser to the Prime Minister , held a courtesy meeting and bilateral discussion with a high-level delegation led by Dutch Ambassador Joris van Bommel on Tuesday. Other members of the Dutch delegation included Dominique Kuhling, Amber Oortman, Cor Stouten, and Lubain Chowdhury Masum. The meeting featured detailed discussions on expanding the existing friendly relations between Bangladesh and the ...

Nigel Farage will be headlining at an American conservative summit brought to the UK by Liz Truss next month alongside hard-right speakers, despite his party previously suggesting he would be “steering clear”. The Reform UK leader has announced he will speak in July at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which claims it wants to “save Britain, save the west”. ...

The capital’s most senior British Asian police officer says he is “truly humbled” to have been awarded the Freedom of the City of London. City of London Police Commander Umer Khan was given the honour in recognition of more than three decades of “exemplary service” to policing and work in cohesion, the City of London Corporation said. Originally from Pakistan, ...

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) today approved eight development projects with an estimated cost of Tk2,266.41 crore. The approval came from the 12th ECNEC meeting of the current fiscal year (FY26) held at the Cabinet Division Conference Room at Bangladesh Secretariat here with ECNEC Chairperson and Prime Minister Tarique Rahman in the chair. Of the total ...

Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday said confirmed Ebola deaths had climbed to 101 and that the presence of armed groups was continuing to hinder the response in the hardest-hit province. The outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola was announced on May 15, though officials have since said it went undetected for weeks, leaving health authorities behind the curve ...

European Union Ambassador to Bangladesh Michael Miller on Tuesday met with Chief Whip of the Opposition and Convener of the National Citizen Party Nahid Islam in Dhaka. The meeting focused on a wide range of issues, including ongoing reform initiatives, the upcoming national budget, preparations for local government elections, and the role of youth and women in different sectors of ...