Bangladesh

Foreign Secretary Md Jashim Uddin today urged all the BIMSTEC member states to extend their full cooperation to ensure timely finalization of six fundamental agreements on trade. “Realisation of the FTA is paramount for our region’s collective economic advancement,” he said in the 25th BIMSTEC Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) in Bangkok, said a foreign ministry press release. Jashim Uddin is ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said Chief Adviser Dr. Muhammad Yunus’s China visit is a big success for the government. “During the Awami League government, relations were established unilaterally with one party. But with government changeover, China has changed its thinking. They are now talking to all political parties,” he said while exchanging Eid greetings with ...

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman Tuesday said the fight to build a corruption-free Bangladesh as expected by the martyrs is not over, rather it has begun from now. “This fight will continue. If necessary, I’ll also sacrifice my life to fulfill the expectation,” he told a function on the Dakbanglow ground in Kulaura upazila of the district, reports BSS. ...

Information and Broadcasting Adviser Md Mahfuj Alam today said that the individuals involved in enforced disappearances will be brought to justice during the tenure of the interim government. The adviser made the remarks while exchanging views with the families of the victims of enforced disappearances. Human rights organizing “Mayer Dak” organized the event in the city’s Tejgaon area this afternoon, ...

The New York Times article titled “As Bangladesh Reinvents Itself, Islamist Hard-Liners See an Opening” is a misleading one, said the Chief Adviser’s Press Wing today. “The New York Times article paints a troubling and one-sided view of Bangladesh, suggesting that the country is on the brink of being overtaken by religious extremism,” the press wing said in a statement ...

A 55-member rescue and medical team from Bangladesh reached Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday afternoon to extend humanitarian assistance to the earthquake affected people of Myanmar. Two C 130 J and one CASA C 295W flights carried the team along with a total 15 metric tons of relief materials comprising 4.2 metric ton medicine and medical products, tent, and dry ...

Bangladesh has sent the second mission of emergency medicines and relief supplies to the victims of the devastating earthquake in Myanmar. These supplies and medicines were sent via three transport aircraft of the Bangladesh Army (BA) and Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) on Tuesday morning, following the instructions of Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus, CA’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is doing well now and she is celebrating Eid with her family in London after eight years, party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said today (30 March). “Alhamdulillah, she [Begum Khaleda Zia] is better now in London,” the BNP leader told reporters at the Chairperson’s Gulshan office. Fakhrul said Begum Zia will probably return home ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has called upon the people of Bangladesh to embrace the spirit of Eid-ul-Fitr as a means to foster unity and peace in the country. Speaking at a view-exchange function on Eid day, he emphasized the importance of coming together to move the nation forward. “This year’s Eid carries special significance as we must bridge our ...

A joyous Eid procession of Dhaka South City Corporation was brought out in the tradition of the Bengal Sultanate and Mughal eras. The procession started from Agargaon old trade fair ground at about 9AM after Eid Jamaat and ended in front of the National Parliament Building where thousands joined. The entire Agargaon area was filled with chants of ‘Eid Mubarak, ...