Bangladesh

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has said the history of proclamation of independence in 1971 by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was distorted after his assassination in 1975. “Bangabandhu’s independence proclamation was spread through wireless and his party men reached it elsewhere of the country. But after his assassination, the history was distorted,” she ...

The Ministry of Home Affairs issued a gazette notification extending the suspension of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s jail sentence by another six months. A gazette notification, signed by the ministry’s Public Safety Division’s deputy director Mohammad Abu Sayeed Molla was issued on Wednesday (March 27). According to the gazette notification, the extension of the suspension of Khaleda Zia’s jail sentence ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah:     London/Dhaka, March 24, 2024 – Prottaya Cultural Organisation Bangladesh has released a unique audio music CD album titled “Chiro Bhaskar Mujib” to commemorate the 100th birth anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Father of the Nation of Bangladesh. The Album was launched to celebrate Bangabandhu’s Birth Centenary and Golden Jubilee of Independence of Bangladesh ...

President of the UN General Assembly, Ambassador Dennis Francis, has said with a well-educated workforce and a dynamic youth population, modern Bangladesh has overcome remarkable odds to become an economic powerhouse in South Asia. Francis made the comment while delivering remarks as the chief guest at a reception hosted by the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations in New York ...

Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity has demanded to extend the Eid-ul-Fitr vacation by two days (April 8 and 9) to reduce suffering, harassment and road accidents. Mozammel Hoque Chowdhury, general secretary of the Jatri Kalyan Samity, made the demand at a press briefing held at the Dhaka Reporters Unity in the capital at 11:30am. “If proper use of public transport is not ensured, it ...

  Bangla Mirror Desk:   Bangladesh High Commission, London today is the 54th Independence Day by paying deep respect to the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the immortal martyrs of the Great Liberation War. And the National Day was celebrated with due dignity and solemnity. On this occasion, in a special discussion organized at the Bangabandhu ...

Bangla Mirror Desk:   High Commissioner of Bangladesh to the UK Saida Muna Tasneem has called for a fresh motion at the British Parliament recognising the 1971 genocide, recalling the early day motion adopted at the British Parliament in June 1971 that ‘stopping the genocide in East Bengal and recognising Bangladesh’. In her welcome remarks at a high-profile commemorative event ...

Criticising the Awami League government, BNP standing committee member Dr. Abdul Moyeen Khan has said to hold the power, around one lakh cases have been filed against opposition leaders and activists and 50,000 have been made accused in false cases. “Hundreds of thousands of people of the country have sacrificed their lives. Today, after 53 years of independence, a question ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has congratulated the people of Bangladesh on the occasion of Independence Day on March 26. On behalf of the United States of America, Blinken extended warm wishes to all Bangladeshis on this special day, reports UNB. The US looks forward to enhancing the partnership and people-to-people ties between the two countries in the year ...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday filed two cases against former Bogura-7 (Gabtali-Shajahanpur) independent lawmaker Rezaul Karim Bablu and his wife Beauty Khatun on charges of amassing illegal wealth of around Tk 2 crore. Md Zahangir Alam, deputy director of Bogura ACC office, filed the cases against the couple at the office on Monday. Zahangir said, “Former lawmaker Reazul Karim ...