Bangladesh

Government has suspended the court sentence for one year against Zubaida Rahman, wife of BNP acting chairman Tariq Rahman. The suspension order was issued on Sunday through a circular signed by Mohammad Abu Sayed Mollah of the Security Services Division under the Ministry of Home Affairs. According to the circular, based on an application submitted for the suspension of Zubaida Rahman’s ...

World Bank will provide USD 300 million assistance to support the Bangladesh Clean Air Project (BCAP), which aims to strengthen air quality management and reduce emissions from key sectors. Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forest, Climate Change, and Water Resources, shared the information following a high-level meeting with Martin Raiser, vice president of the World Bank ...

The joint forces in a drive arrested 35 people, including a top drug dealer, and recovered firearms with ammunition from Geneva camp in Mohammadpur of Dhaka early Sunday. Senior Assistant Director (media) and Senior Police Super Shihab Karim of RAB-2 said the joint forces, led by RAB-2 recovered local arms, two pistols, 20 rounds of bullet and illegal drugs in ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus arrived in Dhaka early Sunday, concluding a productive visit marked by a series of high-level meetings with global leaders. Prof Yunus and his delegation arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 3:32 AM on a Qatar Airways commercial flight. During his four-day stay in New York, Prof Yunus participated in over 40 major events on ...

Mahmudur Rahman, former acting editor of the daily Amar Desh, was sent to jail on Sunday in a case filed for plotting to kidnap and kill former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy. Earlier in the morning, Mahmudur Rahman surrendered before the court of Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mahbubul Haque and sought bail with a condition ...

The central health sub-committee of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement has released a preliminary list of 1,581 individuals who were killed during the mass uprising in July and August this year. According to the sub-committee, more than 31,000 students and people were injured during the mass uprising. The list has been prepared collecting information from various regions of the country. However, ...

A total of 85 Bangladeshi nationals on Sunday departed Sitwe Port in Rakhine State of Myanmar to return home after serving different prison terms. A press release issued by Bangladesh mission in Myanmar said that Myanmar Naval Ship UMS Chin Dwin, carrying the Bangladesh nationals, is expected to arrive in Cox’s Bazar in the early hours of Sunday (September 29). ...

Mahmudur Rahman, former acting editor of the daily Amar Desh, will surrender to the lower court Sunday. He was sentenced 7 years imprisonment in his absentia in a case filed on the charge of an attempt for abduction and murder Sajib Wajed Joy, son of the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. Advocate Syed Joynul Abedin Mesbah said that Mahmudur Rahman ...

The government plans to create a blue network using the canals in Dhaka that are still possible to be recovered. Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser of Ministry of Water Resources and the Ministry of environment, forest and climate change, told this while speaking at a workshop as a chief guest at the Forest Department in the capital on Saturday. The Centre ...

A total of 633 traffic cases were filed and around Tk 23 lakh in fine were imposed for violating traffic rules in Dhaka metropolitan area on Friday. Jahangir Kabir, assistant commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), in a media release on Saturday said the traffic division of DMP conducted the drives against breaching the traffic rules. Besides, 161 vehicles ...