Bangladesh

The central health sub-committee of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement has released a preliminary list of 1,581 individuals who were killed during the mass uprising in July and August this year. According to the sub-committee, more than 31,000 students and people were injured during the mass uprising. The list has been prepared collecting information from various regions of the country. However, ...

A total of 85 Bangladeshi nationals on Sunday departed Sitwe Port in Rakhine State of Myanmar to return home after serving different prison terms. A press release issued by Bangladesh mission in Myanmar said that Myanmar Naval Ship UMS Chin Dwin, carrying the Bangladesh nationals, is expected to arrive in Cox’s Bazar in the early hours of Sunday (September 29). ...

Mahmudur Rahman, former acting editor of the daily Amar Desh, will surrender to the lower court Sunday. He was sentenced 7 years imprisonment in his absentia in a case filed on the charge of an attempt for abduction and murder Sajib Wajed Joy, son of the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. Advocate Syed Joynul Abedin Mesbah said that Mahmudur Rahman ...

The government plans to create a blue network using the canals in Dhaka that are still possible to be recovered. Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser of Ministry of Water Resources and the Ministry of environment, forest and climate change, told this while speaking at a workshop as a chief guest at the Forest Department in the capital on Saturday. The Centre ...

A total of 633 traffic cases were filed and around Tk 23 lakh in fine were imposed for violating traffic rules in Dhaka metropolitan area on Friday. Jahangir Kabir, assistant commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), in a media release on Saturday said the traffic division of DMP conducted the drives against breaching the traffic rules. Besides, 161 vehicles ...

Wrapping up very engaging stay and series of meetings with global leaders, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus left for Dhaka on Friday night. Prof Yunus and his delegation members left JFK International Airport at 9:30pm (NY time) and are scheduled to reach Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 2:15am (Dhaka time) on Sunday. The Chief Adviser attended around 40 big events ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Friday urged the international community to continue and deepen engagements with Bangladesh to help meet its people’s quest for democracy, rule of law, equality and prosperity so that it can emerge as a just and inclusive democratic society. “I call upon the international community to engage with ‘new Bangladesh’ anew that aims to realise ...

Shafiqur Rahman, Ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, has condemned Awami League, accusing it of commiting genocide asserting that such actions disqualify any party from participating in national politics. He made this statement while addressing a gathering at the Rukon Conference organised by Khulna Metropolitan Jamaat at the Al Faruq Society in Sonadanga on Friday. “Those who commit genocide have no right ...

After the removal of elected mayors from all city corporations and municipalities of the country following the fall of the Awami League government, the councillors have also been removed. The general councillors and councillors in the reserved seats of women of 12 city corporations and 323 municipalities across the country have been removed. Removing the general councillors and councillors in ...

Mahmudur Rahman, the Daily Amar Desh editor, and a victim of torture and repression during Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government, returned to the country on Friday morning after staying over five and a half years in exile. He arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport from Turkey on a flight at 9:30am. Leaders from the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists, Dhaka ...