Bangladesh

A three-member BNP delegation, including party acting chairman Tarique Rahman’s daughter Zaima Rahman, met Robert A. Destro, the former US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labour. The delegation held the meeting with Robert Destro in Washington on Wednesday, according to a post on the party’s verified Facebook page. The other two members of the delegation were ...

Information and Broadcasting Adviser Nahid Islam has stated that India will be held accountable if ousted leader Sheikh Hasina engages in any political activities while staying there. “India has provided shelter to Sheikh Hasina, and they have their own reasons for doing so. We have formally requested India to return her to Bangladesh, which is a diplomatic matter. However, if ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has urged all stakeholders to accept the reports of the reform commissions and take necessary steps for their implementation. Speaking at a function held at the State Guest House Jamuna, he expressed confidence that the reports would receive unanimous support. The Public Administration Reform Commission, led by Abdul Muyeed Chowdhury, and the Judiciary Reform Commission, ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has said the interim government is committed to implementing important labour reforms to take the country’s labour laws to ILO standards. “We’ve already taken some moves. You will see the changes very soon.” Prof Yunus said when leaders of Nirapon, which works for the improvement of worker safety in Bangladesh’s hundreds of factories, called on ...

Former chairman of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC), Shibli Rubaiyat-ul-Islam, has been arrested by Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police. According to DB Chief Rezaul Karim Mallik, the arrest took place on Tuesday night at around 10 PM in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi area. He confirmed that Shibli Rubaiyat was apprehended in connection with a case filed by the ...

The United States (US) embassy in Dhaka will launch a new visa service system starting February 8, temporarily suspending access to its current online platform. As part of the transition, the visa service website www.ustraveldocs.com will be unavailable from February 5 to February 7, the embassy announced in a Facebook post on Tuesday, reports BSS. “We will resume our website ...

Sarah Cooke, British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, has said the United Kingdom (UK) will remain a steadfast partner of Bangladesh, noting that the two countries continue to expand their bilateral trade through the UK’s Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS). Representing eight businesses by a group of diverse and inspirational Bangladeshi women entrepreneurs is set to lead a trade mission to ...

The Election Commission (EC) has collected data on 50 lakh new voters as part of its ongoing voter list update process, according to EC Secretary Akhter Ahmed. Speaking to journalists at the Election Commission headquarters on Tuesday (February 4), he stated that a total of 4,970,388 new voters have been added, against a target of 6,189,000. He further explained that ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has called for the establishment of a ‘command centre’ to intensively monitor and coordinate the country’s law and order situation. The directive came during a high-level meeting with the heads of law enforcement agencies at the state guesthouse Jamuna in Dhaka. Addressing the meeting, Prof Yunus emphasized the need for a centralized command structure to ...

A Dhaka court has imposed a travel ban on Farzana Rahman Ipshita, daughter of former member of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) Matiur Rahman, and ordered the seizure of her income tax records in connection with the ongoing graft cases. On Monday, Senior Special Judge Zakir Hossain Galib of the Dhaka Metropolitan Court issued the order following a petition ...