Bangladesh

The body of a newsroom editor at the private TV channel GTV has been recovered from Hatirjheel lake in the capital. The deceased was identified as Rahanuma Sarah, 32. She used live at a rented house with her husband in the city’s Kalyanpur area. According to passerby Sagar, who rescued Rahanuma from the lake, said he found the floating body ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) acting Chairman Tarique Rahman was acquitted from a defamation case filed in Gopalganj on 2014. Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohammad Shahadat Hossain Bhuiyan issued the acquittal order on Tuesday (August 27) afternoon. According to the case details, on December 17, 2014, accusations were made that Tarique Rahman had made derogatory remarks about the Awami League. Following this, ...

Russian Ambassador to Bangladesh Aleksander Mantytsky on Tuesday said Russia would continue to support Bangladesh in international arena. He made the comment as he made a courtesy call on Chief Adviser of the interim government Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus at the state guest house Jamuna in Dhaka, reports BSS. During the meeting, he discussed the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, which ...

A plea has been submitted to a court in Dhaka seeking to place Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) president and former information minister Hasanul Huq Inu on a 10-day remand in connection with a murder case filed at New Market Police Station in the capital. The hearing on remand is scheduled to take place at Dhaka’s Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ali Haider’s ...

Around 56,19,372 people are affected and 27 people died till Tuesday in 11 districts in the ongoing flood. Farooq-e-Azam, adviser to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief Affairs, gave this information at a press conference at the Secretariat on Tuesday (August 27). “Total 11 districts across the country are affected by the recent flood till now, where more than ...

The 48th death anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, widely revered for his limitless contributions to Bangla literature, is being observed in a befitting manner across the country on Tuesday. Also celebrated as the ‘Rebel Poet’, Kazi Nazrul Islam is considered a pioneer in Bangla literature. Marking his 48th death anniversary, several organisations and institutions are holding multiple programmes ...

Dr Niaz Ahmed Khan has been appointed as the new Vice Chancellor of Dhaka University. The appointment came to light on Monday. Dr Khan is a Professor in the Department of Development Studies at Dhaka University and was serving as the Pro Vice Chancellor of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). He will be the 30th vice chancellor of DU since its ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Monday said Bangladesh is a large family where the responsibility of the government is to protect the rights of every citizen. The chief adviser made the comments while exchanging greetings with the leaders of Bangladesh’s Hindu community on the occasion of Janmastomi, the auspicious birth celebration of Lord Sri Krishna. During the meeting, Prof ...

India on Monday opened 109 gates of Farakka Barrage due to floods in Bihar and Jharkhand. About 11 lakh cusecs of water will enter Bangladesh in one day. Due to the opening of the barrage, there is a risk of flooding in Murshidabad of West Bengal and Bangladesh. India has claimed that information about the flood situation and landslides is ...

The United Kingdom (UK) has declared to provide £33,000 of immediate humanitarian assistance in Bangladesh to support people affected by severe flooding in Feni, Khagrachari and Noakhali. The aid will provide vital search and rescue, food, cash transfers, clean water, sanitation and hygiene supplies, said a press release of British High Commission here Monday. It will be implemented by Start ...