Bangladesh

At least 475 people were killed and 815 injured in 452 road accidents across the country in October this year, according to a reports of Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity. Among them, 163 people were killed in 138 bike accidents, which is 30.53 per cent of total accidents and 34.31 per cent of the deaths respectively. The Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity ...

Government efforts are going on to stabilise the prices of essential commodities centering the upcoming Ramadan, said Commerce Adviser Sheikh Bashiruddin on Saturday. “We are striving to maintain a balance between supply and demand to ensure affordability. For this, we expect collective efforts and public cooperation.” Commerce Adviser Bashiruddin said these at a scholarship cheque distribution event at the Dhaka ...

The drivers of battery-operated auto-rickshaws staged demonstration at Jurain of Dhaka blocking roads and railway tracks on Friday afternoon, demanding the withdrawal of a High Court directive banning battery-operated rickshaws. They halted two trains –Narayanganj Commuter and Nakshikantha Commuter. As a result, train services between Dhaka-Narayanganj and Dhaka-Mawa-Padma Bridge came to a standstill. The demonstration escalated into a confrontation with ...

An 18-member central executive committee of the Anti-discrimination Student Movement has been formed. It was informed through a notification signed by the organization’s convener Hasnat Abdullah and member secretary Arif Sohel on Thursday (November 21). It also announced that the members of the central committee, formed on October 22, will serve as ex-officio members of this committee. In the central ...

Eighty-two more Bangladeshi national returned home from war-torn Lebanon on Thursday night. With them, a total of 697 Bangladeshi citizens, so, far, have returned home from Lebanon. The flight, ‘EK-584’, carrying the expatriates landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) around 11pm, said a media release sent from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Officials from the government and the International ...

The High Court (HC) is set to deliver its verdict any day on the death references and appeals of the August 21 grenade attack cases. A high court bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Syed Enayet Hossain kept the death references (trial court documents for confirmation of death sentences) and the appeals, filed by the convicted accused in the ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has expressed Bangladesh’s eagerness to work and collaborate with global nonprofit Orbis International to expand eye care services in the country. Speaking at a meeting with Orbis International President and CEO Derek Hodkey, he said Bangladesh needs to expand eye care services and is ready to work with Orbis International to this end. Derek, who ...

Former Secretary AMM Nasir Uddin has been appointed as Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) for the next five years. President Mohammed Shahabuddin has also appointed four election commissioners. They are former additional secretary Md Anwarul Islam Sarker, former District and Sessions Judge Abdur Rahman Masud, former joint secretary Begum Tahmida Ahmad and Brig Gen (retd) Abul Fazal Md Sanaullah. Two separate ...

Bhutanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Rinchen Kuentsyl met BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday and discussed various issues of mutual interest, including the revival of Saarc. The meeting, which lasted around an hour, began at 11:00 pm at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office. BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury and Organising Secretary Shama Obed were present ...

Advocate ZI Khan Panna expressed his interest in fighting for ousted Sheikh Hasina in the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) in genocide cases. “I am always on the side of the oppressed, whoever he is. I would fight for Sheikh Hasina in the tribunal or any other place if get opportunity.” ZI Khan said this on Thursday while briefing reporters after ...