Bangladesh

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?” ...

  Bangladesh Health Minister Dr. Samanta Lal Sen sought support from the Oxford Vaccine Group at the University of Oxford to establish a vaccine centre in Bangladesh while visiting the University on Tuesday (14 May) where the AstraZeneca vaccine was developed during the Corona pandemic. During the visit, the Minister met with the Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, Professor ...

Canada’s Indo-Pacific Trade Representative Paul Thoppil on a three-day visit will arrive in Dhaka on Sunday. According to a press release issued by the Canadian High Commission in Dhaka on Saturday, during his visit in Bangladesh he will meet with officials and key partners to promote Canada’s commitment to the region through its Indo-Pacific Strategy. The high commission said Thoppil ...

Indian authorities have stopped passenger travel from Bangladesh through Benapole border on a travel visa for three days due to the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. India’s West Bengal’s Lok Sabha elections is scheduled to be held on May 20. To keep the law and order situation normal during the polls, this decision has been taken. However, Bangladeshi passport holders with ...

  Bangladesh and the United Kingdom held their first ever Joint Working Group meeting on Home Affairs on Thursday in London at the British Home Office and signed the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) on Returns. British Minister for Countering Illegal Migration James Tomlinson-Mynors KC, and Bangladesh High Commissioner in the UK Saida Muna Tasneem opened the JWG meeting and witnessed ...

The United States has said the sanctions imposed against Bangladesh’s elite force RAB are not being withdrawn. “Those claims are false. The US is not withdrawing sanctions against the RAB,” said Principal Deputy Spokesperson at the US Department of State Vedant Patel, reports UNB. In a regular briefing at the US Department of State, he said sanctions are intended to ...

Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina on Friday vowed her party will take the country towards prosperity confronting all the conspiracies to give the people a beautiful and improved life. “Conspiracies hatch every time (during elections) and we overcome that. We have to be cautious to continue the (winning) trend,” she said. She was addressing the leaders ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday asked the economists to design their policies, plans and programmes considering the local realities as advice from a foreigner won’t be fruitful here. “I want from the economists that you would design your policies, plans and programmes considering the soil and people of the country,” she said. The premier said this while inaugurating the ...

Major General Syed Tareq Hussain has been appointed as the new ambassador of Bangladesh to Kuwait. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday issued a press release disclosing his appointment. Commissioned in 1989, Major General Syed Tareq Hussain has served in various staff, instructional and command appointments of the Bangladesh Army. Just before being deputed to the Ministry of Foreign ...

Five persons were killed and at least 15 others injured when a passenger bus lost control and fell into a roadside ditch in Cumilla’s Chauddagram upazila on Friday. The accident took place early in the morning in Basantpur area on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway. Two of the dead have been identified as Mohammad Hossain, 30, hailed from Teknaf Upazila in Cox’s ...