Bangladesh

Former civil aviation and tourism minister Rashed Khan Menon and also President of Bangladesh Workers Party, has been sent to jail in a case filed on charge of attacking BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas during an election campaign at Shegunbagicha in Dhaka in 2018. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanaullah passed the order on Wednesday after the investigating officer of ...

A court in Narsingdi on Wednesday sent former industries minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun to jail in a case filed for killing a workers’ leader in Narsingdi on August 4 during quota protest. Around 12:14PM, Narsingdi Judicial Magistrate Rakibul Islam passed the order rejecting five-day remand prayer of the plaintiff. Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members arrested Nurul Majid from Gulshan ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has sought international community’s continuous attention to the Rohingya crisis, otherwise, he warned that it might put the entire region in trouble, not just Bangladesh. “We must pay attention,” he said while speaking at a high-level discussion on the Rohingya crisis held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday afternoon (NY time). ...

The bilateral meeting held between Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus and US President Joseph R Biden Tuesday was a rare opportunity for Bangladesh and a big step to take the relations to a new height. The meeting was held at the UN headquarters at 11 am (NY time), which was the first meeting of the Bangladesh interim government chief ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday joined in New York a welcome reception with heads of delegation representing various countries at the UN General Assembly hosted by Secretary General António Guterres at the UN headquarters, reports UNB. World leaders gathered here to engage in the annual high-level General Debate under the theme, “Leaving no one behind: acting together for ...

South Korean ambassador in Dhaka Park Young-sik on Tuesday (September 24) held a meeting with Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam. The meeting was held at the BNP Chairperson’s political office at Gulshan in Dhaka around 4:00pm on Tuesday. On behalf of the BNP media cell, it was told that the BNP standing committee member Abdul Moyeen ...

Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain has met Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and discussed issues of mutual interest. The meeting was held on Monday focusing on bilateral ties. “Had a meeting with Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain of Bangladesh in New York this (Monday) evening. The conversation focussed on our bilateral ties,” Jaishankar wrote on X, formerly ...

Bangladesh’s army chief vowed to back the country’s interim government “come what may” to help it complete key reforms after the ouster of prime minister Sheikh Hasina, so that elections could be held within the next 18 months. General Waker-uz-Zaman and his troops stood aside in early August amid raging student-led protests against Hasina, sealing the fate of the veteran ...

Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Monday night arrested Siam Hasan, a chargesheeted accused in a case filed over the attack on the convoy of the then-US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia S Bernicat in August 2018. A team of DB from Tejgaon arrested Siam Hasan, 26, from a house on Tajmahal Road at Mohammadpur in the capital ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus reached New York on Monday night (NY Time) to attend the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) with a series of high-profile meetings lined up on the sidelines of the UNGA including a meeting with US President Joe Biden on Tuesday. Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Ambassador Muhammad Abdul Muhith and CDA of ...