Bangladesh

Welcoming more US investment in Bangladesh, Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has said his government has taken steps to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and improve the business climate in the country. “You have come at the right time here,” Prof Yunus said when Chief Executive Officer of the Excelerate Energy, Steven Kobos called on him at the State Guest ...

The newly appointed Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) chairman Prof Mobasser Momen and four members took oaths on Tuesday. Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed administered the oath to them at the Supreme Court Judges’ Lounge on Tuesday noon. Supreme Court Registrar General Aziz Ahmed Bhuiyan conducted the ceremony. The four other members are Dr Nurul Kadir, Dr Mohammad Aminul Islam, ...

The Mirpur-10 metro rail station, which has been kept shut for almost three months after it was vandalised, reopened on Tuesday (October 15). Mohammad Abdur Rauf, managing director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Ltd (DMTCL), confirmed the information to media. On 19 July, unidentified individuals vandalised the Mirpur-10 and Kazipara metro stations amid the complete shutdown programme of the Anti-Discrimination ...

Girls have once again outshone boys in the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations, securing a slightly higher pass rate. The pass rate for female students is slightly higher at 79.95 per cent, while male students have a pass rate of 75.61 per cent. Meanwhile, female students have outperformed boys getting the highest GPA-5. A total of 80,933 female ...

The results of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations of this year were published on Tuesday (October 15). The average pass rate across the eleven boards is 77.78 per cent. A total of 1,45,911 students achieved GPA-5 across the country, whereas the number was 92,595 last year. The Sylhet board saw the highest pass rate with 85.38 per cent, ...

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members have arrested Mohammad Faruk Khan, former minister of civil aviation and tourism. He was arrested at about 1AM on Tuesday from his cantonment residence. Later, the elite force team handed him over to the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Additional Commissioner Rezaul Karim Mallick confirmed. Faruk Khan, a former lawmaker from Gopalganj-1 ...

The Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested Awami League presidium member and former agriculture minister Abdur Razzaque. He was arrested from the Eskaton area of the capital Monday evening, DB police said. Confirming the arrest, DB police additional commissioner Rezaul Karim said there were several cases against him. It has not yet been decided in which ...

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has expressed grave concerns over the government’s failure to arrest the ‘cadres’ of the Awami League and its associate bodies, who were involved in shooting students during protests against Sheikh Hasina’s regime. “Why have the Chhatra League and Jubo League cadres and activists, who shot at students, still not been arrested?” he ...

The Public Administration Reforms Commission has recommended raising the maximum age for applying for public service jobs to 35 years for men and 37 years for women. The committee chief and former adviser of the caretaker government Abdul Muyeed Chowdhury shared the information at the Secretariat in Dhaka on Monday. He said the final decision will be taken in the ...

The Mirpur-10 metro rail station will reopen on Tuesday (October 15). Mohammad Abdur Rauf, managing director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Ltd (DMTCL), made the announcement during a press conference at the DMTCL office at Uttara on Monday. He also noted that the headway between trains on Fridays will be reduced to 10 minutes starting October 18. Earlier, on July ...