Bangladesh

Acting Foreign Secretary Rear Admiral (Retd.) Md. Khurshed Alam on Sunday said the US side did not raise anything related to the recently announced US visa policy. “I can unequivocally tell you that they did not initiate any discussion about the visa policy,” he told reporters after his meeting with US Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Rena Bitter, ...

The Law Ministry said ‘no’ over the request for Khaleda Zia’s treatment abroad. If wants to go abroad, she (Khaleda Zia) will have to go to jail and, later, will submit an application to the court, said Law Minister Anisul Huq on Sunday. The law ministry today informed their opinion on the issue to the home ministry. “Khaleda Zia’s sentence ...

BNP chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia has no scope of going abroad without the permission of court, said Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday (October 1). He was speaking at the beginning of a joint meeting of Awami League presidium at the party’s central office at Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital. Quader, also the Road Transport ...

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal has said that the Election Commission want to take the challenge of holding free, fair and peaceful elections. “The crisis in the election is the crisis of trust. We want to take the challenge of free, fair and peaceful polls.” The CEC said this while inaugurating a training workshop at the Election Training Institute ...

US Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Rena Bitter is now in Bangladesh on a two-day official visit. She is scheduled to meet with government officials to discuss consular issues. The official visited Islamabad and Karachi in Pakistan before her arrival in Dhaka, reports UNB. The Assistant Secretary will meet with embassy and consulate staff and observe consular operations, ...

In response to a letter from Sampadak Parishad (Editors’ Council) expressing concern over a recent remark about applying US visa policy on the media in Bangladesh, US Ambassador Peter Haas has reiterated his government’s commitment to staunchly defend press freedom and the “right of journalists and media outlets to exercise their right to freedom of expression,” reports UNB. “That includes ...

Japan will provide 2,17,556 million Japanese Yen (approximately $1,500 million) more in seventh tranche under the 44th Japanese Loan Package (2nd batch) for the Matarbari Ultra Super Critical Coal-Fired Power Project. Under the project, ‘Exchange of Notes’ and ‘Loan Agreement’ for 7th tranche of Matarbari Ultra Super Critical Coal-fired Power Project under the 44th Japanese ODA Loan Package (2nd batch) ...

    A commercial flight of the British Airways carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage members landed at the London Heathrow Airport at 11:07am today local time. Bangladesh High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK) Saida Muna Tasneem received the Premier at the airport. The flight had departed the Dulles International Airport, Washington DC, for London at 11:40pm (Washington ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that if BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia wishes to go abroad for treatment, she will have to go to jail, and go to court first. “We will be bound to withdraw her treatment process which she is currently receiving at home,” the Premier said in an interview with Voice of America (VOA) on Saturday (30 ...

Laxmipur-3 lawmaker AKM Shajahan Kamal passes away on Saturday morning. He was 82. Confirming the death news, Prof ASM Maksud Kamal, younger brother of the deceased and pro vice chancellor (academic) of Dhaka University, said that his elder brother breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka around 3:30 am. The first namaz-e-janaza for Shajahan Kamal will ...