Bangladesh

A writ petition has been filed with the High Court seeking an investigation into the allegation that former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury has built a real estate empire in the UK by buying more than 350 properties (worth Tk2,770 crore) since 2016. Supreme Court lawyer Md Salahuddin filed this writ on Thursday in public interest. The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has ...

A training fighter of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) crashed into the Karnaphuli River at Chattogram’s Patenga on Thursday morning. But the two pilots on board have survived. “The pilot and the co-pilot parachuted down safely. They were rescued by local boats and taken to a hospital,” said Shakila Sultana, deputy commissioner (port) of the Chattogram Metropolitan Police. The plane caught ...

The first hajj flight carrying 413 pilgrims left Dhaka for Jeddah early Thursday. The flight of Saudi Airlines left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at about 4:05am. Later, the second flight of Bangladesh Biman left the airport at 7:20 with 417 pilgrims after Religious Affairs Minister Faridul Haque Khan inaugurated the flight at 5:30am. According to Religious Ministry a total of ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon the United Kingdom (UK) to help repatriate the forcibly displaced Rohingyas to their motherland Myanmar. “Use your good office to repatriate Rohingyas to their country,” she said when UK Minister of State for the Indo-Pacific Anne-Marie Trevelyan paid a courtesy call on the Prime Minister at her official Ganabhaban residence in Dhaka on ...

BNP Joint Secretary General Khairul Kabir Khokon and also the president of Narsingdi District BNP, has been freed from jail on bail after more than six and a half months of his arrest. Khokon walked out of Keraniganj Central Jail around 12pm on Wednesday. BNP leaders and activists of the senior leader of the party, including Narsingdi district BNP convenor ...

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal has said the voting in the first phase of upazila elections in 139 upazila across the country was held peacefully with around 30 to 40 per cent of voter turnout. He told this while briefing the journalists at EC office in the capital after the voting ended at 4pm. Unpleasant incidents were reported in ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday inaugurated the Hajj programme-2024 (Hijri 1445) at Ashkona Hajj Camp in the capital. She also exchanged greetings with the (Hajji) Hajj pilgrims after opening the Hajj programme as the chief guest, reports BSS. The premier sought doa from the Hajj pilgrims for the people of Bangladesh as well. However, the hajj flight carrying Bangladeshi ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir returned home on Wednesday after performing the holy Umrah in Saudi Arabia. The BNP secretary general and his wife Rahat Ara Begum arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport via a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines around 12:35pm from Jeddah, his personal assistant M Yunus Ali told UNB. Talking to reporters at the airport, ...

The 163rd birth anniversary of great poet Rabindranath Tagore, who reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as arts of Indian subcontinent with contextual modernism, is being celebrated Wednesday in a befitting manner. The government has taken up elaborate programmes to celebrate the 163rd birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore at national level Wednesday. On the 25th of Baishakh in 1268 ...

The first phase of the sixth upazila parishad election is under in 139 upazilas of 59 districts in the country amid high security. Voting began at 8:00am on Wednesday and continue up to 4:00pm without any recess. Some 1,635 candidates, including nearly 570 chairman contenders are in the electoral race in the 139 upazila parishads against a total of 417 ...