Bangladesh

Former BNP lawmaker Mosaddek Ali Falu and two others have been acquitted in a case filed over siphoning off Tk 183.92 crore to Dubai. Dhaka Divisional Special Judge SM Ziaur Rahman passed this order on Thursday stating that the prosecution failed to prove the charges. Two other accused who are also acquitted from the case charge are SAK Ekramuzzaman, Managing ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Thursday met Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev at the COP29 climate summit venue in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. During the meeting, they discussed issues of mutual interest, according to a message received here. Earlier, Non-Resident Ambassador of Azerbaijan Elchin Huseynli in a meeting with Prof Yunus here stressed the need for deeper trade ties between ...

Four advisers met with the injured of the July-August mass uprising, who were protesting for better treatment, at National Orthopedic Hospital and Rehabilitation Institute (NITOR) early Thursday. The advisers arrived on the scene hurriedly around 2:30AM to meet the wounded protesters and addressed them. They assured them of giving proper treatment and rehabilitation. Getting assurance, the protesting injured returned to ...

Former Awami League lawmaker from Dhaka-7 constituency Solaiman Salim, son of Haji Salim, was arrested from Gulshan area in the capital early Thursday. A team from Chawkbazar Police Station arrested him from a house of Gulshan. The police station OC Rezaul Hossain confirmed this to media around 1:30AM. On secret information, a police force arrested Solaiman Salim at 1:15AM in ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday suggested creating a new life style, based on ‘zero waste and zero carbon’ to protect the planet from climate catastrophes, presenting his longstanding dream of creating a new world of three zeroes. “In order to survive, we need to create another culture. A counter-culture which is based on a different lifestyle. It is ...

A court in Dhaka has placed former agriculture minister Md Abdus Shahid, former mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Atiqul Islam and Momtaz Uddin Ahmed Mehedi, former secretary of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) on remand in different cases on Wednesday. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Farzana Shakila Sumu Chowdhury passed the order on Wednesday as police produced them before ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said, as a nation, we should not be intolerant, we should be tolerant. It is true that the garbage of 17 years cannot be removed in 17 days or 17 months. The interim government should give time for this. We have repeatedly said that there is not much need to do all the ...

The United States has called for upholding and protecting “freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, and association” for all, including dissenting and opposition voices in Bangladesh. “Upholding and protecting these freedoms for all Bangladeshis is necessary to ensure a true democratic future for the country,” said Vedant Patel, principal deputy spokesperson at the US Department of State, at a regular briefing ...

Sharing an idea of greater electricity connectivity in the region, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday called for creating a South Asian grid to share the hydroelectricity generated by Nepal and Bhutan. “Bangladesh can easily bring hydroelectricity from Nepal as it is only 40 miles from Bangladesh. Nepalese hydroelectricity will also be cheap,” Professor Yunus said, adding Bangladesh, India, ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday said credit is a human right as it relates to the livelihood of people. “You cannot establish the right of livelihood without ensuring the right to credit,” he said while speaking at a sidelines event at the COP29 in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, according to a message received in Dhaka. Bangladesh and ...