Bangladesh

A total of 5,00,000 jobs will be created in the government sector over the next two years, announced Asif Mahmud Sojib Bhuiyan, adviser to the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Ministry of Labour and Employment, on Friday. He made this statement while speaking as the chief guest at an event held to celebrate National Youth Day 2024 at ...

A major conspiracy is going on against Jatiya Party (JaPa) terming it “an ally of Awami League,” JaPa Chairman GM Quader has claimed. “But, we were not involved in any misdeed of Awami League,” he said while speaking at an urgently convened press conference at the Jatiya Party head office at Banani in the capital on Friday (November 1) morning ...

A Dhaka court has placed former housing and public works minister RAM Obaidul Muktadir Chowdhury on a five-day remand in a case filed over BNP activist Makbul Hossain murder case at Paltan police station. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Judge Mehra Mahbub placed the accused on remand on Friday afternoon. Prior to the ruling, the investigating officer, sub-inspector Nazmul Hasan applied for ...

Law Adviser Dr Asif Nazrul will look into administrative and financial issues at the Speaker’s office of Jatiya Sangsad, said Chief Adviser’s press secretary Shafiqul Alam on Thursday. The Press Secretary came up with the updates while briefing the media at Foreign Service Academy on the meeting of the Council of Advisers held with Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus in ...

Former housing and public works minister RAM Obaidul Muktadir Chowdhury was arrested from Mirpur in Dhaka on Thursday night. DMP Additional Commissioner (DB) Rezaul Karim Mallick early Friday said that a team of the Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police detained him. The former minister has been arrested in a murder case filed over the death of a ...

Six government medical colleges across the country have been renamed after their respective districts Sheikh Hasina Medical College in Jamalpur and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical College in Faridpur, have been renamed showing the respective district names, instead of an individual’s name. The Medical Education and Family Welfare Division under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Wednesday (October 30) ...

The High Court has dismissed a sedition case filed against BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, former ETV chairman Abdus Salam, and two others. The HC bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Syed Enayet Hossain acquitted them after scrapping the case on Thursday. Two others acquitted by the court are—Ekyshey TV former chief reporters Mahathir Faruqi Khan and senior reporter ...

The 6th batch, consisting of 52 Bangladeshis, were evacuated from Beirut on a flight with a stopover in Dubai en route to Dhaka today amid the ongoing conflict in Lebanon. The flight carrying these passengers left Beirut at 7:20 am and the flight is scheduled to land at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 11:00 pm with a layover in ...

A six-member search committee has been formed under the leadership of Appellate Division Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury to recommend commissioners for the next Election Commission. The cabinet division issued a notice to the effect on Thursday issued by Cabinet Secretary Dr Sheikh Abdur Rashid, under the directive of the president, says the Cabinet Division will provide secretarial assistance to the ...

The interim government has requested for direct communication with the World Health Organization (WHO), citing Saima Wazed Putul, current regional director for South-East Asia and daughter of the ousted prime minister, as “nonfunctional”. Apurbo Jahangir, deputy press secretary to Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus, stated it at a press conference held on Wednesday evening at the Foreign Service Academy in ...