A new organisation named the “France-Bangladesh Business Forum (FBBF)” has been officially launched in Paris with the objective of strengthening commercial relations and building an economic bridge between France and Bangladesh. The announcement was made during a press conference held on Friday evening in the Aubervilliers area of the French capital, where the forum’s goals and future work plans were ...

The WHO chief told the people of Tenerife Saturday that the risk to them from an arriving cruise ship hit with a deadly hantavirus outbreak was “low”. “I need you to hear me clearly: this is not another Covid,” World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote in an open letter to the people of the Spanish island where the ...

General students of Eden Mohila College took to the street in front of the campus late into Saturday, pledging to resist reported attempts to revive student politics there. Around 11pm at night, students from an under-construction dormitory also joined the protest as they tried to tear down multiple gates on campus, and set fire to political campaign materials near the ...

Pep Guardiola praised the “outstanding” Jeremy Doku for keeping Manchester City in the Premier League title race with a superb strike in Saturday’s 3-0 win against Brentford. Doku ended Brentford’s stubborn resistance on the hour mark at the Etihad Stadium when he curled a fine finish in the top corner. It was the Belgium winger’s fourth goal in his last ...

Muhammed Shahed Rahman : A new chapter of pride in London, United Kingdom, with two British-Bangladeshi faces now leading two important councils in British politics. Sitting in the leadership position and as the executive mayor of Tower Hamlets and Newham Council in London, it has been proven once again that with hard work, honesty, and competence, Bangladeshis can make a ...

BNP Chairman and Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has joined a views-exchange meeting with district-level leaders of the ruling BNP and its three associate bodies. The day-long meeting began at 10:45am on Saturday at the Krishibid Institution Bangladesh (KIB) auditorium in the city’s Farmgate area with BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi in the chair. Tarique Rahman joined the ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Saturday rode in a “smart car” built by specially-abled youth Wakimul Islam, encouraging the young innovator for his creative effort. Wakimul Islam met the Prime Minister at his office in Tejgaon on Saturday morning, where he showcased the small vehicle he had built. He later drove the battery-operated smart car carrying the Prime Minister. The ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin left Dhaka for London this morning for follow-up medical treatment and health check-up. “A regular commercial aircraft (flight BG-201) of the Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the President and his entourage members took off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 7:45 am,” according to the Bangabhaban’s Press Wing. Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Md Asaduzzaman, Dean of ...

Lionel Messi has backed former Barcelona teammate Neymar to be included in Brazil’s squad for this year’s ​World Cup, describing the forward as one of ‌the world’s best despite concerns over his fitness. Neymar, Brazil’s all‑time leading scorer with 79 goals, has not played for the national team ​since suffering a serious knee injury in October ​2023 and has struggled ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : The Green Party’s Zoë Garbett has vowed she will “change the system”, after being elected mayor of Hackney. The win ousted Labour, which has held the mayoralty since the directly-elected position was created in 2002. Speaking after the results, Ms Garbett said: “Today we start a fightback. “In this election, over and over, people kept telling ...