Bangladesh

A 17-member committee has been to transform Ganabhaban, the official residence of former prime minister sheikh Hasina, into a museum titled ‘July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum’. The museum will preserve the memories of repression during the past 16 years in Bangladesh and the history of students’ movement and their victory Writer and Filmmaker Dr Ebadur Rahman will act as its ...

Security has been beefed up around the central office of the Jatiya Party (JaPa) at Bijoynagar area in the capital. Strict security measures have been implemented, and no party leaders, activists, and others are allowed to gather at the spot. Earlier, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has banned all forms of public gathering at Kakrail and adjoining areas in the capital. ...

During a reception ceremony at the State Guest House Jamuna in the morning today, Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus asked the players of the Bangladesh team that won the 2024 SAFF Women’s Championship in Nepal last week to submit a list of their demands in writing, assuring them of working on those in the coming days. The Chief Adviser carefully ...

A total of 5,00,000 jobs will be created in the government sector over the next two years, announced Asif Mahmud Sojib Bhuiyan, adviser to the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Ministry of Labour and Employment, on Friday. He made this statement while speaking as the chief guest at an event held to celebrate National Youth Day 2024 at ...

A major conspiracy is going on against Jatiya Party (JaPa) terming it “an ally of Awami League,” JaPa Chairman GM Quader has claimed. “But, we were not involved in any misdeed of Awami League,” he said while speaking at an urgently convened press conference at the Jatiya Party head office at Banani in the capital on Friday (November 1) morning ...

A Dhaka court has placed former housing and public works minister RAM Obaidul Muktadir Chowdhury on a five-day remand in a case filed over BNP activist Makbul Hossain murder case at Paltan police station. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Judge Mehra Mahbub placed the accused on remand on Friday afternoon. Prior to the ruling, the investigating officer, sub-inspector Nazmul Hasan applied for ...

Law Adviser Dr Asif Nazrul will look into administrative and financial issues at the Speaker’s office of Jatiya Sangsad, said Chief Adviser’s press secretary Shafiqul Alam on Thursday. The Press Secretary came up with the updates while briefing the media at Foreign Service Academy on the meeting of the Council of Advisers held with Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus in ...

Former housing and public works minister RAM Obaidul Muktadir Chowdhury was arrested from Mirpur in Dhaka on Thursday night. DMP Additional Commissioner (DB) Rezaul Karim Mallick early Friday said that a team of the Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police detained him. The former minister has been arrested in a murder case filed over the death of a ...

Six government medical colleges across the country have been renamed after their respective districts Sheikh Hasina Medical College in Jamalpur and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical College in Faridpur, have been renamed showing the respective district names, instead of an individual’s name. The Medical Education and Family Welfare Division under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Wednesday (October 30) ...

The High Court has dismissed a sedition case filed against BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, former ETV chairman Abdus Salam, and two others. The HC bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Syed Enayet Hossain acquitted them after scrapping the case on Thursday. Two others acquitted by the court are—Ekyshey TV former chief reporters Mahathir Faruqi Khan and senior reporter ...