Bangladesh

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 ...

The agitating university students who are against the quota system in government jobs, on Tuesday announced a day-long blockade, dubbed ‘Bangla Blockade’ across the country for Wednesday (July 10). Nahid Islam, coordinator of the student movement, announced the programme at a press briefing held in front of the Central Library of University of Dhaka (DU) on Tuesday afternoon. He also ...

A protest rally was held on Tuesday against the transfer of National Board of Revenue (NBR) first secretary (Tax) Kazi Abu Mahmud Faisal, who was accused of acquiring huge wealth through corruption, to Bogura. The demonstration was organized by Bangladesh Youth Union Bogura District Branch which took place in front of the Tax Commissioner’s office (Region-1) in the Upashahar area ...

The hearing on Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus’s revision petition that sought the cancellation of charge farming order in a case filed over embezzling Tk 25.22 crore of Grameen Telecom Workers’ welfare fund, will be held on Wednesday (July 10). When the petition was submitted for hearing on Tuesday, the High Court bench of Justice Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Kazi Ibadat ...

The partial central committee of Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal has been announced where Abdul Monayem Munna made the President and Nurul Islam Noyon the general aecretary. The announcement was made through a press release signed by BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Tuesday. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir approved the partial committee in the direction of the party’s ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday called upon the Chinese business community to invest in Bangladesh’s main sectors for mutual benefits taking the benefits of the world’s most liberal investment regimes, saying, “It is time to invest in Bangladesh, and I am confident that with our hands joined, together we can achieve great things.” “I encourage the Chinese business community ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday reached Beijing to start a four-day official visit to China at the invitation of her Chinese counterpart Li Qiang. A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, that left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 11:05am, carrying the PM and her entourage landed at Beijing Capital International Airport at 6pm local time (4pm BST), reports UNB. ...

Grameen Telecom Chairman Dr Muhammad Yunus has made an appeal to the High Court to cancel the proceedings of the money embezzlement case lodged against him. The application is scheduled to be heard by the high court division bench of Justice Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Kazi Ibadat Hossain. Barrister Abdullah Al Mamun, lawyer of the defendants’ said “The application ...

The ruling Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has said that the anti-quota movement that cause public suffering should be avoided till the High Court verdict. “Politics has involved in this movement. BNP has extended their support which means joining the movement.” Quader said these while addressing a press conference at the AL president’s Dhanmondi political office. “We are closely ...

A Dhaka court has set July 23 for holding hearing on a plea of police to take BNP leader Ishraque Hossain on 10-day remand in a sedition case. Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Saifur Rahman set the date as police produced Ishraque before the court and pleaded to take him on remand in the case filed over presenting a man before ...