Bangladesh

A new student organization, Bangladesh Ganatantrik Chhatra Sangsad, has been officially launched by former coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement. The announcement was made during a press conference at Madhur Canteen in Dhaka University (DU) on Wednesday. The central committee of the organization will be led by Abu Bakar Mazumdar as Convener, while Jahid Ahsan has been appointed as Member ...

Ali Ahsan Junaid and Rafe Salman Rifat, Joint Convener and Joint Member Secretary of the Jatiya Nagorik Committee, have withdrawn from the new student-led political party set to be launched on February 28. The two leaders made the announcement via Facebook posts on Tuesday, February 26. Currently, both Junaid and Rifat are on a visit to China at the invitation ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin has accepted the resignation letter of adviser Nahid Islam who stepped down from his position on Tuesday. A gazette notification, signed by Md Mahmdul Hossain Khan, secretary (coordination and reform) to the routine duty of the Cabinet Secretary, was issued in this regard on Wednesday. The resignation will come into effect soon, the notification reads. Amid the ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus expressed the nation’s commitment to delivering fair justice for the military personnel killed during the 2009 BDR carnage at Pilkhana in Dhaka. In a statement marking the first observance of Jatiya Shaheed Sena Dibash (National Martyred Army Day), Prof. Yunus paid tribute to the fallen soldiers, describing them as the nation’s “brightest children.” He highlighted ...

Information and Broadcasting Adviser Nahid Islam has resigned from the advisory council of the interim government. The Chief Adviser’s office revealed the information on Tuesday. Nahid Islam will take charge as the convener of the new political party to be announced on February 28. Nahid, a Dhaka University student and coordinator of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, took oath as an ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 on the Richter scale was felt in the capital and several parts of the country at 6:40AM on Tuesday. However, as the epicenter was in the Bay of Bengal near India, its impact in Bangladesh was minimal, according to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department. Meteorological Department’s Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre acting officer in-charge Rubayet Kabir ...

Jatiya Shaheed Sena Dibos (National Martyred Army Day) is being observed in the country on Tuesday, commemorating the martyred army officials who were killed in the 2009 Pilkhana massacre. Marking the day, around 9AM, Home Affairs Adviser Lt General (retd.) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury went to Military Graveyard in the capital’s Banani and paid his tribute to the slain army ...

BNP vice-chairman and former minister Abdullah Al Noman passed away at a private hospital in the capital on Tuesday morning at the age of 82. His personal assistant Nurul Azim Hiru informed that Noman breathed his last around 6AM at Square Hospitals while undergoing treatment. He left behind wife, a son, a daughter and a host of relatives and well-wisher ...

India and the UK have restarted free trade talks, nearly a year after negotiations were paused ahead of general elections in both countries. Jonathan Reynolds, the UK’s business and trade secretary, met his Indian counterpart Piyush Goyal in Delhi on Monday and kicked off the two-day discussions. The talks focused on “advancing” the negotiations and ensuring that the deal was ...

The government has rearranged the office timing for the upcoming holy month of Ramadan from 9AM to 3:30PM for all government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous organisations. The Public Administration Ministry issued a notification in this regard on Monday. There will be a 15-minute break from 1:15PM to 1:30PM for Zuhr prayers, said the notice. However, banks, insurance companies, financial institutions, ...