Bangladesh

Veteran politician and advisor to the Communist Party of Bangladesh Haider Akbar Khan Rono passed away early Saturday at a private hospital in the capital. He was 81. He breathed his last at about 2:05am at the intensive care unit (ICU) of Health and Hope Hospital, Panthapath, CPB central committee member Jolly Talukder confirmed this. She said comrade Rono had been receiving treatment ...

US President Joe Biden has nominated David Slayton Meale, currently Deputy Chief of Mission in Beijing, as the next US Ambassador to Bangladesh. The nomination has been sent to the Senate, according to the White House. David Meale of Virginia is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor. The current US ambassador to Bangladesh, Peter Haas, ...

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said if their party leaders and workers don’t stay in field, BNP will carry out terrorist activities in the name of holding rally. “BNP’s rally means arson attack, disorder and bloodshed. So, if BNP is allowed to carry out their activities in the entire capital, it will ...

Considering Bangladesh’s overall stability and economic prosperity, big partners are showing greater interest to engage with the stable new government, Bangladesh says. “All have been attracted by our stability, economic prosperity and other socioeconomic development. They are showing greater interest,” Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen said ahead of US official Donald Lu’s visit to Bangladesh, reports UNB. The foreign secretary ...

Squadron Leader Asim Jawad was laid to rest in the Seota graveyard of the Manikganj district town on Friday afternoon. Earlier, the Air Force-219 helicopter carrying Asim Jawad’s body landed at the Shaheed Miraj-Tapan Stadium in Manikganj around 12 pm on Friday. Air Force Wing Commander Annu said that after the body of Squadron Leader Asim reached Manikganj, he was ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday paid tributes and offered prayers at the Mausoleum of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Tungipara in Gopalganj. She paid homage by placing a floral wreath at Bangabandhu’s grave in the morning. Then she joined a prayer seeking eternal peace of the departed souls of Bangabandhu and other martyrs of the ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday (May 9) asked the Finance Division of the Ministry of Finance to take effective steps to enlist the potential State Owned Enterprises (SoEs) or the government entities and public companies in the capital market to enhance more the strength and fundamentals of the country’s share market. The Premier gave the directive while chairing the ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Thursday received the annual report of the Bangladesh Competition Commission. A delegation led by State Minister for Commerce Ahsanul Islam Titu handed over the ‘Bangladesh Competition Commission’s Annual Report 22-23’ to the President. President’s Press Secretary Md. Joynal Abedin told BSS that the President was apprised by the delegation on the overall activities of the Competition ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin has urged the founders and entrepreneurs of private universities to take necessary steps to upgrade their institutions to the international standard. The President, also the Chancellor of the universities, made the call when a delegation of the Private University Association, led by its chairman Sheikh Kabir, paid a courtesy call on him at the Bangabhaban in Dhaka, ...

A pilot was killed and co-pilot was injured after a trainer fighter jet of Bangladesh Air Force YAK-130 crashed into the Karnaphuli River in Patenga of Chattogram on Thursday morning. The pilot was squadron leader of the Air Force Asim Jawad. The injured co-pilot is Wing Commander of the Air Force Sohan. Shakila Sultana, deputy commissioner (port) of the Chattogram ...