Bangladesh

The second phase of the sixth upazila parishad elections will be held in 157 upazilas in the country on Tuesday. However, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has boycotted the election. Candidates were seen making hectic efforts on the last day of electioneering, which ended at midnight on Sunday. Allegations of conflict, threats, violations of the electoral code of conduct, and the ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s leadership in Bangladesh’s “extraordinary education sector success” was praised at the 22nd Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers held in London last week. Bangladesh was commended for its recent achievements and transformations in the education sector, in particular for a stronger emphasis on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) over the past decade, leading to higher ...

Responding to a remark of Awami Leageu general secretary Obaidul Quader that why journalists would enter Bangladesh Bank, BNP’s senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has asked if journalists don’t enter the central bank, do the mafias, hoodlums, and loan defaulters enter there? He made the remarks before distributing financial support at a programme held at the BNP central ...

Awami League general secretary and Road Transport and Bridges minister Obaidul Quader has said BNP leaders are making absurd comments, as they are suffering from mental trauma. He said this while replying to a question after joining a seminar at a hotel in the capital. About BNP leaders claim that AL men also didn’t cast their votes in elections, Quader ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday inaugurated the weeklong 11th National SME Product Fair to showcase products made by local small and medium enterprises. The fair at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) has jointly been organised by the Industries Ministry and SME Foundation, reports UNB. The objective of the fair is to promote, disseminate, sell, and the market expansion ...

Babar Ali successfully conquered Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world, on Sunday (May 19) and raised the Bangladeshi flag for the fifth time in the highest peak. Babar from Chattogram, a doctor and a prolific climber by profession, reached the height 8:30am local time (8:45am Bangladesh time) on Sunday. He has become the fifth Bangladeshi mountain climber who ...

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong is scheduled to pay an official visit to Bangladesh on May 21-22 to strengthen their bilateral relationship with Bangladesh and find ways to boost cooperation for regional peace, prosperity and security. Issues related to promotion of trade and investment, sustainable and renewable energy production, Rohingya crisis, maritime security, technology transfer and free and open Indo-Pacific ...

Claiming that the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayor Barrister Fazle Noor Taposh has been spreading ‘false and fabricated’ information, former mayor Sayeed Khokon MP has requested him (Taposh) not to do the ‘politics of blame game.’ Sayeed Khokon made the request while addressing a press conference at Jatiya Press Club in the capital early Saturday (May 18) afternoon. The ...

Former Joint Secretary General of Hefazat-e-Islam Mamunul Haque went to the Detective Branch (DB) headquarters on Minto Road in the capital on Saturday. According to DB sources, Mamunul went there around 6pm on Saturday to meet with Chief of the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Harun Or Rashid. Mamunul was released from jail on May 3. The ...

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has asked why journalists would enter the Bangladesh. Quader also questioned in which country, one can enter the central bank freely. “Can anyone enter the central bank of any country of the world freely? You (journalists) have to know information. Everything has been given on website. So, why would you enter the central bank?” ...