Bangladesh

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi have expressed their desire that the existing bilateral relations between the two neighbouring countries would be further deepened in the future. “The two leaders have expressed their hopes that the existing bilateral relations will be deepened further in the days to come,” Foreign Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud told a news ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today paid a courtesy call on senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani at the latter’s residence here. “During the meeting, both the leaders talked about their personal matters,” Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Md. Mustafizur Rahman told BSS. They also exchanged pleasantries and reminisced past memories, he added. Sheikh Hasina arrived in New Delhi on Saturday ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday evening attended the oath-taking ceremony of Narendra Modi as the prime minister of India for a third consecutive term. She joined the oath-taking ceremony as the third foreign leader at the Rashtrapati Bhavan with her daughter Saima Wazed. Top leaders from Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Bhutan, Nepal, Mauritius, and Seychelles joined the swearing-in ceremony ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today reiterated her country’s eagerness to import hydro electricity from Bhutan through India when Bhutanese Prime Minister Dasho Tshering Tobgay paid a courtesy call on her at the latter’s Place of Residence here. “Import of hydroelectricity will require a tripartite agreement involving India and we have already brought the matter to their (India’s) attention,” she told ...

Rejecting the next fiscal’s proposed budget outright, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has said that the entire budget is an imaginative, reliant on bank borrowings, and looters’ friendly. “Awami League government has proposed this budget to legalise their own theft,” said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir while addressing a press conference at BNP Chairperson’s political office at Gulshan in ...

West Bengal’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have recovered some bones from Bagjola canal near Krishwnamati Bridge area during a search with accused Siam. Initially, they appear to be human bones. Kolkata police started the search operation around 8am. Earlier, they conducted several operations but failed to recover anything. Today they recovered the bones within 30 hours’ of operation. On Saturday, ...

The postponed elections in 19 cyclone Remal-hit upazilas across the country are underway on Sunday. Voting began at 8am at 1,181 polling centres in these upazilas and will continue uninterrupted till 4pm. Votes are being cast by EVM in Pirojpur’s Mathbaria, while the rest are using traditional ballot papers. A total of 330 candidates are contesting the polls. Of them ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has termed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s remarks on whitening undisclosed income as “tactics to create smokescreen.” He made the remark while speaking at a discussion at Jatiya Press Club in the capital on Saturday (June 8). The discussion titled “What we need to do for the emancipation of Bengalees and Sirajul Alam Khan” ...

A total of 214 illegal immigrants, including 123 Bangladeshis, have been arrested by the Malaysia’s Johor Immigration Department during raids on workers’ settlements near Kampung Belokok, and Jalan Lingkaran Dalam in Johor Baru. Immigration Deputy Director-General (Operations) Jafri Embok Taha said 140 officers and department personnel conducted the first raid at 12.45am on Saturday (June 8), reports The Star. He ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday reached New Delhi to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as the prime minister for a third consecutive term. She is visiting Indian capital to join the oath-taking ceremony at her Indian counterpart’s invitation. A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the prime minister and her entourage members landed at the Palam ...