Bangladesh

Former shipping minister Shajahan Khan is being taken to Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Haider in a murder case Sunday. A Dhaka court on Sunday sent former shipping minister Shajahan Khan to jail as he fell sick during his remand in a case filed over the killing of one Abdul Motalib in Dhanmandi area during Anti-Discrimination Student Movement. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate ...

Referring to Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s recent remarks, Foreign Adviser Md Tauhid Hussain on Sunday said he does not in any way think that there is any apprehension of war between Bangladesh and India. “We do not want to show any reaction. We have to understand whether he (Rajnath) has said this for the consumption of his own country ...

Newly appointed International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) chief prosecutor Md Tajul Islam has said that steps will be taken to bring back prime accused in most of the genocide cases, former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, to the country under the extradition treaty with India. He made the remark at a press conference at the ICT on Sunday. “The investigation team yet ...

The interim government has appointed Md Jashim Uddin as the 27th foreign secretary of Bangladesh, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday. A career diplomat, Jashim joined Bangladesh Foreign Service in 1994. Jashim, from the 13th batch of BCS (Foreign Affairs) Cadre, served extensively both at home and abroad. Prior to his appointment as Foreign Secretary, he was serving ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has highlighted the importance of both formal and non-formal education programs to build an illiteracy-free Bangladesh. “Education is one of the basic human rights. Education is also the main tool of nation building,” he said in a message marking the International Literacy Day that falls on September 8, reports UNB. The main aim of celebrating ...

Hundreds of job seekers staged demonstration blocking Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka on Saturday to press home their demand for extending the age limit up to 35 years for government jobs. The protesters carried a banner urging the chief adviser’s attention to their demands. They said that the current age limit for civil service applications is 30. They have been carrying ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Saturday visited critically injured persons of the student-mass upsurge at the National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital as he inquired about their health. “He (Professor Dr Yunus) saw the conditions of four students who were being treated in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital,” its director Professor Dr Quazi Deen Mohammad told the ...

Religious Affairs adviser Dr AFM Khalid Hossain has said madrasa students will be deployed to guard the temples during the upcoming Durga Puja festival. He made the remarks while talking to journalists after attending an opinion-sharing meeting with different religious leaders including alems and ulemas organised by the Islamic Foundation in Rajshahi city on Saturday morning. The Religious Affairs adviser ...

Youth and Sports adviser Asif Mahmud Sajeeb Bhuiyan has said a committee will be formed by Sunday with architects and museum experts to turn Ganabhaban into the ‘July Uprising Memorial Museum’. “Will start inauguration work soon,” he said after visiting Ganabhaban on Saturday (September 7). Earlier on Thursday, the interim government took the decision to turn Ganabhaban into the ‘July ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party has started its processing to take party Chairperson Khaleda Zia abroad for advanced medical treatment. But as she is not physically fit enough to travel for a long time by plane, the party leader decided to take her by an air ambulance. They are trying to arrange the air ambulance from Qatar. Dr AZM Zahid, a personal ...