Bangladesh

Former DUCSU VP and lawmaker Sultan Mohammad Mansur Ahmed has been sent to jail in a case filed over the murder of Juba Dal leader Shamim Mollah. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sharifur Rahman passed the order on Saturday (October 5). The investigation officer of the case produced him before the court after end of his five-day remand in the case and ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has called upon Chief Adviser to the interim government Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus to take necessary steps against former chief justice ABM Khairul Huque bringing sedition charges against him for destroying the constitution and abolishing caretaker government system. Terming him as the “mastermind,” of destroying the constitution and abolishing the caretaker government system, the BNP also ...

Chief of Army Staff Gen Waker-Uz Zaman on Saturday paid a courtesy call on President Mohammed Shahabuddin at Bangabhaban. During the meeting, the president was apprised of the overall activities of the force by the army chief. Mohammed Shahabuddin said the Bangladesh Army is playing a commendable role in the welfare of the countrymen and providing security to the lives ...

Former President Prof AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury passed away at a hospital in the capital early Saturday. He was 94. He breathed his last at 3:15AM while undergoing treatment at the Uttara Women’s Medical College, his Press Secretary Jahangir Alam confirmed. Badruddoza Chowdhury was the founder of this hospital. He is survived by his wife, a son, two daughters, and a ...

Reassuring decent working conditions, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Friday said his government will give immediate attention to the fresh entry of 18,000 Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia in the first phase subject to all conditions are met, reports UNB. “We have discussed the whole system. And we have gone through very transparent procedures. We need workers but they can’t ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin has called upon Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to facilitate the entry of more skilled and semi-skilled workers from Bangladesh into Malaysia. The President made the request during a meeting with the Malaysian PM at Bangabhaban on Friday, reports UNB. Welcoming Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim with flowers, President Shahabuddin expressed optimism that the bilateral relations between Bangladesh ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus held a brief one-to-one talk with visiting Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport today (Friday). Prof. Yunus said he was “very happy” to welcome his old friend in Dhaka. During the meeting, the Chief Adviser spoke briefly on the student-led movement, sacrifices the students and people and the carnage committed by ...

Former Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder has been placed on a seven-day remand in a case filed with Tejgaon Police Station over the killing of a student during the recent Quota Reform Movement. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saifuddin Hossain granted the remand after Soyad Imrul Sahed, sub-inspector of Badda Police Station and investigation officer of the case, produced the former minister ...

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim arrived in Dhaka on Friday afternoon on an official visit at the invitation of Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus. On his arrival at around 2PM, Chief Adviser Professor Yunus received the Malaysian Premier at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport where he was given a guard of honour, foreign ministry sources said. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is ...

Police arrested Samir Chandra, president of Bangladesh Krishak League, an affiliate organization  of Awami League, from Badda of Dhaka city early Friday. Talebur Rahman, deputy commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said Samir was held at around 1AM on Friday from the area. According to the DMP, Samir was accused in several cases filed with different police stations in the ...