Bangladesh

A case has been filed last night (Thursday) with Cumilla Kotwali Model Police Station against 133 people, including former members of parliament (MPs) former railways minister Mujibul Haque and AKM Bahauddin Bahar for injuring some people by shooting during the anti-discrimination student movement in Sadar upazila of the district. Kazi Md. Sohel, son of Abdul Karim, resident of Alekharchar area, ...

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has reassured its continuous support in transforming Bangladesh’s rural economy. The pledge was made when IFAD’s newly appointed Country Director for Bangladesh Dr Valantine Achancho presented his credentials to foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain at the Foreign Ministry here on Wednesday, said a IFAD press release today. During the meeting, Achancho said ...

Hundreds of students and people on Friday held a long march from Dhaka to Cumilla, holding rallies along the way in an effort to mobilise support in favour of their demand for demolishing dams built by India on common rivers. They said that India built the dams unilaterally on the common rivers controlling natural flow of the rivers violating international ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s younger son late Arafat Rahman Koko’s wife Sharmila Rahman Sithi has arrived in Dhaka from London. She reached the BNP Chairperson’s residence Firoza at Gulshan in Dhaka on Thursday (September 5) afternoon. BNP’s Media Cell member Shayrul Kabir Khan confirmed it. Earlier, Sharmila Rahman arrived in Dhaka on January 28 last. Khaleda Zia’s younger son Arafat ...

Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus will attend the upcoming 79th UN General Assembly session scheduled for September 22-27 at the UN Headquarters in New York, United States. A seven-member delegation will accompany him, said Foreign Adviser Touhid Hossain. The seven-member delegation comprises Dr Yunus’ daughter Deena Afroz Yunus, Chief SDG Coordinator Lamiya Morshed, economist Debapriya Bhattacharya, Drik Managing Director Shahidul ...

A Dhaka court has placed arrested Awami League presidium member and former minister Shajahan Khan on seven-day remand in a murder case filed with Dhanmondi Police Station. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court passed the order on Friday (September 6) afternoon. Earlier, he was taken to the CMM court on Friday afternoon. At that time, police pleaded to place him on ...

Awami League presidium member and former shipping minister Shajahan Khan was arrested from Dhanmondi area of Dhaka city early Friday. Rezaul Karim Mallic, additional commissioner of Detective Branch of Police, acknowledging the matter on Friday morning said a team of detectives arrested him from the area. There are several cases filed against him after the fall of Sheikh Hasina-led Awami ...

In an interview with the Press Trust of India (PTI), Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has said former prime minister Sheikh Hasina should have kept quiet in India until Bangladesh seeks her extradition. “If India wants to keep her until the time Bangladesh (government) wants her back, the condition would be that she has to keep quiet.” Yunus said ...

The High Court on Thursday directed authorities concerned to exhume the body of Harris Chowdhury, political secretary to former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia, for a DNA test to ensure his identity. The HC bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Muhammad Mahbub Ul Islam passed the order following a writ petition filed by Harris Chowdhury’s daughter Samira Tanzina Chowdhury. ...

The Secondary and Higher Education Division of Ministry of Education has announced the appointment of new vice-chancellors at five public universities, including Rajshahi University (RU) and Jahangirnagar University (JU). President Mohammed Shahabuddin, also the chancellor of the universities, appointed them to these posts on Thursday (September 5). Five separate notifications have been issued on these appointments signed by deputy secretaries ...