Bangladesh

Joint forces set to commence a nationwide operation to recover illegal arms starting from 12 AM on Wednesday as the deadline for submitting legal and illegal weapons will end on Tuesday night. Alongside this operation, efforts will also target drug trafficking and apprehend the involved. Home Affairs Advisor Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury announced the development during a press briefing following ...

Newspaper editors have opined that the interim government should stay in power for “minimum two to three years,” said Chief Adviser’s press secretary Shafiqul Alam. Following an opinion-sharing meeting between Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus and 20 newspaper editors at the state guest house Jamuna in the capital on Tuesday (September 3), he briefed reporters. During his opinion-sharing meeting with ...

The former chief justice who had resigned under the pressure of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement left the country for the United States on Friday, it is learnt. Earlier on August 10 last, he submitted his resignation letter to the president. In his resignation letter, he wrote that he had to resign from his post for protecting the Supreme Court building and ...

With the death of four more people, the flood death toll rose to 71, a Disaster Management and Relief Ministry report said on Tuesday. So far, the floods claimed highest 28 lives in Feni. In its daily update, the ministry informed that 19 died in Cumilla, 28 in Feni, six in Chattogram, one in Khagrachhari, 11 in Noakhali, one on ...

UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has ordered a pardon for the Bangladeshi nationals involved in last month’s protests and disturbances across several emirates. The decision includes cancelling the sentences of those convicted and arranging for their deportation, according to WAM. In line with His Highness’ directive, Chancellor Dr. Hamad Al Shamsi, UAE Attorney-General, has issued an order ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been acquitted from five defamation cases filed against her. The four cases have been filed by AB Siddique, president of Bangladesh Jananetri Parishad; and one has been filed by Gazi Zahirul Islam, former joint general secretary of Dhaka Union of Journalists, during the Awami League tenure over derogatory remarks about Liberation War, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur ...

The United States would support the interim government of Bangladesh and strengthen ties with Dhaka in a range of issues, US charge d’ affaires in Dhaka Helen LaFave said Monday. The US diplomat made the assurance when she paid a courtesy call on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna in Dhaka. “The US government was ...

A Dhaka court on Monday granted a five-day remand for Haji Mohammad Salim, former Member of Parliament for Dhaka-7 and a prominent leader of Awami League. The decision was made by Metropolitan Magistrate Akteruzzaman following a hearing. Earlier, in the early hours of Sunday, a team from Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested Salim from Bangshal area of Old Dhaka. ...

India has rejected reports published by some media outlets on visa ban for six Bangladeshi student leaders, and described those as “fake news.” “These are fake news,” a source at India’s Ministry of External Affairs said. A source at the Indian High Commission in Dhaka said that no such decision was taken. Reports published by some media outlets have claimed ...

A court in Dhaka on Monday placed Awami League leader and former lawmaker Abdus Sobhan Miah Golap on a three-day fresh remand in a case filed over the death of garment worker Rubel during the student movement. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mehedi Hasan passed the order around 7:15AM after Adabor Police Station inspector Mintu Chandra Banik produced him before the ...