Bangladesh

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 ...

Battery-operated rickshaw drivers have been staging protest, blocking Mohakhali, Mohammadpur, Mirpur, Gabtoli and Demra areas in the capital. The protest has caused massive traffic congestion on these roads. Police are trying to managed them to clear the streets From 9AM to 10AM, the drivers started gathering on these roads with their vehicles for the second consecutive day. Previously, the battery-operated ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin and Chief Advisor Professor Muhammad Yunus has paid glowing homage to the Armed Forces martyrs, who made their supreme sacrifices during the War of Liberation in 1971, on the occasion of the Armed Forces Day. At first around 8AM on Thursday, the President, who is also the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, paid the tribute by ...

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Md Mainul Islam and Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Md Mainul Hassan have been removed from their respective positions. Baharul Alam has been appointed as the IGP. Besides, Sheikh Sazzad Ali was appointed to the post of DMP Commissioner. The Ministry of Home Affairs informed it through a circular on Wednesday afternoon.

Hearings on the cases against several arrested ministers, state and deputy ministers, and high profile leaders of the Awami League have been held on Wednesday (November 20). They were produced before the court pleading to place them on fresh remand in new cases. The high profile leaders of Awami League were brought at the dock of the court one after ...

A Dhaka court has fixed November 27 for the next hearing on charge framing against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and seven others in the Barapukuria coal mine corruption case. Judge Abu Taher of the Special Judge Court-2 in Dhaka passed the order on Wednesday. November 20 was fixed for the hearing on the charge framing, but it could not be ...

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has ordered to complete the investigation against eight police official, including former inspector general of police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun and sacked Maj Gen Ziaul Ahsan, within a month in a case filed for crimes against humanity on charge of genocide during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement. A three-member International Crimes tribunal, chaired by Justice Md ...