Bangladesh

The appeal hearing of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia challenging the High Court verdict that enhanced the five years’ imprisonment handed by the trial court to 10 years in Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case ended on Tuesday. Later, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court fixed Wednesday (January 15) to deliver its verdict over the issue. A five-member Appellate Division bench, ...

Chinese Ambassador to Dhaka Yao Wen met BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and discussed various issues relating to the bilateral interests of the two nations. They exchanged views on issues of mutual interest, according to BNP media cell. The hour-long meeting was held at the Chinese Ambassador’s Baridhara residence on Monday. The Chinese Embassy in Bangladesh, in a ...

India summoned Bangladesh’s Acting High Commissioner, Md. Nural Islam, in New Delhi on Monday to address escalating tensions over border issues. The move follows Bangladesh summoning Indian High Commissioner Pranay Verma a day earlier to express deep concern regarding recent activities by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along the shared border. On Sunday, Bangladesh’s Foreign Secretary Md. Jashim Uddin ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has urged Malaysia to issue multiple-entry visas for Bangladeshi workers to ease their ability to return home when necessary. The appeal was made during a meeting with the Malaysian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Mohd Shuhada Othman, at the State Guest House Jamuna on Monday. Professor Yunus also called for Malaysia’s assistance in facilitating the entry ...

Foreign Secretary Ambassador Md Jashim Uddin has expressed deep concern of government of Bangladesh to the High Commissioner of India Pranay Verma over the recent activities of the Border Security Force (BSF) of India along the Bangladesh-India Border. On Sunday afternoon, the Indian High Commissioner was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Then during a meeting Jashim Uddin expressed ...

The government plans to form a taskforce and implement various activities through a time-bound action plan to address air pollution, said Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, reports UNB. She made the remarks at a seminar titled “Air Quality Research and Environmental Policy Discussion,” jointly organized by the Faculty of Science at Dhaka ...

European Union (EU) Ambassador to Bangladesh Michael Miller met BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday and discussed a range of issues relating to Bangladesh’s upcoming election, democratic transition and foreign investment. “The hour-long meeting, which began around 3:30pm, was held at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office,” said BNP media cell member Shairul Kabir Khan, reports UNB. BNP ...

A Dhaka on Sunday ordered the authorities concerned to attach 45 immovable properties, including plots and flats, of former Sirajganj-2 lawmaker Jannat Ara Henry and seize her 16 vehicles and more than Tk 58 crore kept in her different bank accounts, over graft allegations. Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Zakir Hossain Galib passed the order, allowing a plea of the ...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against 16 individuals, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and five of her family members, on charges of corruption in receiving allocation of 60-katha plots at the Purbachal New Town Project of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk). ACC Director General Md Akhtar Hossain confirmed the matter on Sunday (January 12) saying that apart ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday asked Norway to make Bangladesh a regional distribution hub of their products and invest more in the country to take the benefits of Bangladesh’s youth force. “Use Bangladesh as a base for distributing Norwegian products in Asia so that you don’t need to bring your people from Norway and can use our young ...