Bangladesh

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 ...

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 ...