Bangladesh

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a charge sheet against Bengal Group Chairman Abul Khair Litu in a case filed over illegally acquiring wealth beyond his known sources of income. ACC Deputy Director (Special Enquiry and Investigation-2) Md Kamruzzaman filed the charge sheet on Thursday against the chairman under sections 26(2) and 27(1) of the ACC Act, 2004, and submitted ...

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said on Thursday that they will take strict action if quota protesters create public sufferings blocking road in the name of the blockade movement. DMP Additional Commissioner KH Mahid Uddin warned the protesters while speaking at a press briefing at DMP media centre. Earlier on Wednesday, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court issued a one-month ...

Chief Justice Obaidul Hasan said on Thursday that the court’s door is always open for the quota protesters. “Why do they talk about the executive department? Any decision of the executive department can be challenged in court,” the chief justice this to the agitating students. He said these to senior lawyers and leaders of the Supreme Court during hearing of ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached home after wrapping up her three-day bilateral visit to the Chinese capital Beijing today. The Premier went to Beijing on Monday afternoon at the invitation of her Chinese counterpart Li Qiang. A special flight of the Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage members landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka ...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against seven people, including former director general of the Directorate General of Health Service (DGHS) Abul Kalam Azad and Dr Sabrina Sharmin, chairperson of JKG Health Care, on charge of embezzling around Tk 1 crore by issuing fake coronavirus certificates in 2020. ACC Assistant Director Afnan Jannat Keya filed the case with ...

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a status quo on High Court verdict that declared the scrapping of quotas in government jobs as illegal. Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan said, “We will hear the arguments from all the aggrieved students through their lawyers. And the court will consider their statements during the disposal of main petition.” After ...

Bangladesh and China on Wednesday signed 21 instruments including three renewed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) and made announcement of 7 more projects to elevate “comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership” from “strategic partnership” between the two countries. The instruments were inked in the presence of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Chinese counterpart Li Qiang after the delegation-level talks between the two countries ...

Bangla Academy award winning poet Makid Haider passed away on Wednesday morning. He breathed his last at about 9:05am at his Uttara residence in the capital, Makid Haider’s son Asif Haider confirmed. The body of the poet will be taken to Bangla Academy premise at 2pm for people from all walks of life to pay their last respect. He will ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was accorded a red carpet reception as she reached the Great Hall of the People to have a bilateral meeting with her Chinese counterpart Li Qiang in Beijing on Wednesday morning. On her arrival at the premises of the Great Hall of the People, the Prime Minister was received by Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang, reports ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday paid glowing tributes at the Monument to the People’s Heroes at the Tian’anmen Square in Beijing. She paid homage to the Chinese heroes by placing a wreath at the Monument, reports BSS. The national anthems of the two countries were played on the occasion while the bugle sounded the last post. After laying the ...