Bangladesh

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 ...

Former Agriculture Minister Vice-Principal Md Abdus Shahid has been arrested from his residence at Uttara in the capital. During the arrest, Uttara North Police Station seized cash Tk 3 crore, large amount of foreign currencies of eight countries, and 85 bhories of gold at his residence. Muhammad Talebur Rahman, deputy commissioner (DC) of the Media and Public Relations Department of ...

Two official hajj packages for next year have been announced. The announced affordable packag-1 price set at Tk 4,79,242. AFM Khalid Hossain, Adviser on Religious Affairs, announced this during a press briefing at the ministry on Wednesday (October 30). The cost of the second package is set at Tk 5,75,680. The overall expenses for hajj have decreased by Tk 100,598 ...

Egypt has invited Chief Advisor Prof Muhammad Yunus to attend the D-8 Summit to be held in the North African country in December. Egyptian Ambassador to Bangladesh, Omar Fahmy, handed over the invitation of the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to the Chief Adviser at the Chief Adviser’s office in Tejgaon, Dhaka, on Wednesday, reports UNB. The ambassador said government ...

The High Court on Wednesday scrapped 11 cases, including a sedition and 10 sabotage cases, against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. An HC bench comprising Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Syed Enayet Hossain delivered the verdict, following hearings on separate petitions. The cases were filed on charges of arson, violence and sedition with different police stations in Dhaka at different times ...

Former deputy commissioner (DC) of Mirpur Division Jasim Uddin, warranted accused in the July-August genocide case, has been arrested from Rangpur. Prosecutor Abdullah Al Noman confirmed the information to media on Wednesday morning. He is scheduled to be produced before the International Crimes Tribunal today. He is being brought to the tribunal in connection with charges related to the July-August ...

Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU), the financial intelligence agency of the central bank, has summoned bank account details of 28 journalists. The BFIU has sent letters to various banks of the country seeking information about them, sources familiar with the development said Tuesday. After receiving the letter from the Ministry of Information, BFIU wrote to the banks and asked for ...

Police have arrested former Agriculture Minister Dr Abdus Shahid from Uttara in the capital. He was arrested at about 1AM on Wednesday from his Uttara residence during a raid, Uttara Paschim Police Station OC Md Hafizur Rahman confirmed. Abdus Shahid, lawmaker from  Moulvibazar-4 constituency, was appointed Agriculture Minister following the 12th national parliamentary election. From 2009 to 2014, he served ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has started the process of taking the party’s chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia abroad for advanced medical treatment. Professor Dr AZM Zahid Hossain, BNP standing committee member and Khaleda Zia’s personal physician, told The Daily Observer Online on Tuesday (October 29) evening. Dr Zahid Hossain said Begum Khaleda Zia will be taken to London first by a ...

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman and two commissioners have resigned from their posts. ACC Chairman Mohammad Moinuddin Abdullah, and two Commissioners Md Zahurul Haque and Asia Khatun who were appointed during the Sheikh Hasina led Awami League government have resigned showing “personal grounds.” They have resigned after two and a half months into changing of the government through a mass uprising. ...