Bangladesh

A preliminary UN OHCHR team is in Dhaka to discuss ways to support and the procedures for investigating human rights violations in the context of recent violence and unrest. They will continue their mission in line with the activities they intend to achieve, said an official on Thursday. The high commissioner is fully committed to supporting the interim government and ...

Information and Broad-casting adviser Md Nahid Islam urged to deploy all government and private speedboats and trawlers in the flood-affected areas. He also warned if any negligence of anyone found in this crisis moment, steps will be taken against them. “Urge the private institutions that there are instructions from the Chief Adviser. Turn on the control room within an hour,” ...

Members of Bangladesh Army conducted a drive at Mohammadpur residence of Awami League presidium member and former minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak on Wednesday night. No weapons were found, army personnel seized some important papers, land-related documents, bank cheques, many sacks of rice and blankets from the house. Some students were present during the drive. During the search, photos of leaders and ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus sought the UK’s cooperation to bring laundered money back as British High Commissioner Sarah Cooke met him at his Jamuna office in the capital on Wednesday. Briefing newsmen, the Chief Adviser’s press secretary Shafiqul Alam said different global institutions had informed that a huge amount of money was siphoned off during the regime of ousted ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) acting chairman Tarique Rahman has been acquitted in a treason case filed in Noakhali. Noakhali Additional District and Sessions Judge Court Judge Md. Noman Mahi Uddin delivered the verdict on Wednesday. Confirming the information, the court inspector Md. Shah Alam said that the judge also directed the officer-in-charge of Char Jabbar Police Station to withdraw the ...

Eight districts of the country have been flooded due to heavy rains and onrush of water from the upstream, said the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief on Wednesday. The eight districts are — Sunamganj, Moulvibazar, Habiganj, Feni, Chattogram, Noakhali, Cumilla and Khagrachhari. The flood may spread further, said Additional Secretary of the ministry KM Ali Reza at a press ...

A case has been filed against 123 people with Narayanganj-4 seat former MP Shamim Osman being the main accused in the case over the death of caretaker Monir Hossain on Heerajhil Road in  Narayanganj’s Siddhirganj. Sakhawat Hossain, younger brother of the victim Monir Hossain, filed the case with Siddhirganj Police Station as the plaintiff on Wednesday (21 August) morning. Siddhirganj ...

Interim Government Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus is likely to attend the BIMSTEC Summit to be held in Bangkok, Thailand in September first week. This is going to be his first foreign tour as head of the interim government. Prof Yunus will deliver his speech at the Summit on September 4, an official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, ...

Former State Minister for Liberation War Affairs Captain (retd) AB Tajul Islam, Chattogram port’s former chairman rear admiral Mohammad Sohail and Awami League organising secretary Ahmad Hossain have been arrested in Dhaka. According to Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Branch (DB) police, Tajul was arrested from Gulshan, Sohail from Banani and Ahmad Hossain was arrested from Banasree on Tuesday night. Later, they ...

A case has been filed over the killing of Sajjad Hossain, who died after being shot dead during the anti-discrimination student movement in Rangpur. Apart from former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her sister Sheikh Rehana, journalist Suvash Singha Roy and former prime minister’s press secretary Nayeemul Islam Khan have been made accused in the case. Jitu Begum, wife of ...