Bangladesh

Seven individuals, whose eyes were injured during the mass uprising in July-August,  went to Singapore for treatment on Friday. A Biman Bangladesh flight BG-0584 carrying the injured left the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 8:30AM. The injured were receiving treatment at the National Institute of Ophthalmology are- Abdullah Al Baki, Akter Hossain, Md Yeamin, Foyez Ahmed, Minhajul Islam ...

Information and Broadcasting Adviser Md Nahid Islam on Thursday said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s demand for a neutral government actually hints at forming another 1/11 government. “The Awami fascism had emerged from the settlement of 1/11 (installation of a military-backed government in 2007). In the BNP secretary general’s remarks, there are signs of another 1/11 government, a ...

Secretary-General of rights group Amnesty International (AI) Agnes Callamard called on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus during the World Economic Forum Summit at Davos on Thursday. Robert Maersk Uggla, Chair of Danish shipping and logistics company A.P. Moller – Maersk, also met the Chief Adviser during the summit, CA’s Deputy Press Secretary Apurba Jahangir told BSS. Meanwhile, DP World Group ...

Some Tk 12,000 crore has been borrowed against the names of 16, out of 32 factories, at the Beximco Industrial Park which have no existence, according to the advisory council committee formed to review the labour and business situation of the companies at the industrial park. Brigadier General (Retd) Sakhawat Hossain, convener of the committee, and Labour and Employment adviser, ...

An election-time neutral government may be needed if the current interim government doesn’t remain impartial, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said. He made the remark while speaking at a discussion at Jatiya Press Club in the capital on Thursday (January 23). The discussion was organized by Shaheed Asad Parishad on the 56th death anniversary of Shaheed Asad ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has said the UN fact-finding report on the atrocities during the July-August uprising is at final stage and would be released by mid-February. The UN high commissioner made the comments when he called on Bangladesh Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum annual meeting ...

After serving 16 years, a total of 168 former members of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) were released from Kashimpur High Security Central Jail in Gazipur on bail on Thursday in an explosive case related to BDR mutiny. Their families have been waiting at the main of the jail since morning to receive them. The prisoners are coming out one after another. ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has sought the assistance of the European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde to recover billions of dollars stolen from Bangladesh during the fallen Sheikh Hasina dictatorship. The two dignitaries met in the Swiss city of Davos on Wednesday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum annual meeting. Prof Yunus told Christine Lagarde, also a ...

Leaders of Khelafat Majlish held a meeting with senior leaders of BNP on Wednesday (January 22). The meeting was held at the BNP Chairperson’s political office at Gulshan in the capital. The meeting was held with BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. The party’s standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan was present. Both BNP and Khelafat Majlis reached consensus ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, currently under treatment at a London clinic, will not undergo a liver transplant for the time being. Instead, she is receiving human serum albumin to reduce stress on her liver, as recommended by the medical board considering her health risks. A member of the medical team confirmed that the decision to defer a liver transplant was ...