Bangladesh

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday joined in New York a welcome reception with heads of delegation representing various countries at the UN General Assembly hosted by Secretary General António Guterres at the UN headquarters, reports UNB. World leaders gathered here to engage in the annual high-level General Debate under the theme, “Leaving no one behind: acting together for ...

South Korean ambassador in Dhaka Park Young-sik on Tuesday (September 24) held a meeting with Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam. The meeting was held at the BNP Chairperson’s political office at Gulshan in Dhaka around 4:00pm on Tuesday. On behalf of the BNP media cell, it was told that the BNP standing committee member Abdul Moyeen ...

Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain has met Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and discussed issues of mutual interest. The meeting was held on Monday focusing on bilateral ties. “Had a meeting with Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain of Bangladesh in New York this (Monday) evening. The conversation focussed on our bilateral ties,” Jaishankar wrote on X, formerly ...

Bangladesh’s army chief vowed to back the country’s interim government “come what may” to help it complete key reforms after the ouster of prime minister Sheikh Hasina, so that elections could be held within the next 18 months. General Waker-uz-Zaman and his troops stood aside in early August amid raging student-led protests against Hasina, sealing the fate of the veteran ...

Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Monday night arrested Siam Hasan, a chargesheeted accused in a case filed over the attack on the convoy of the then-US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia S Bernicat in August 2018. A team of DB from Tejgaon arrested Siam Hasan, 26, from a house on Tajmahal Road at Mohammadpur in the capital ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus reached New York on Monday night (NY Time) to attend the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) with a series of high-profile meetings lined up on the sidelines of the UNGA including a meeting with US President Joe Biden on Tuesday. Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Ambassador Muhammad Abdul Muhith and CDA of ...

Home Adviser Lt. Gen. Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (Retd.) has asked the employees of the Department of Immigration and Passports (DIP) to refrain from lobbying for posting, rather perform duties with patriotism and dedication. “I ask you all officials not to lobby for postings,” he said while addressing an orientation programme to welcome 20 newly appointed assistant directors (AD) of ...

A case has been filed against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her younger sister Sheikh Rehana and 69 others in a case filed over the death of garment worker Md Fazlu, who was killed during mass uprising at Mirpur-14 on August 5. Suraiya, wife of the deceased, filed a complaint on Monday against with the Court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate ...

Dhaka Road Transport Owners Association has announced half bus fare for students in all metropolitan areas, including Dhaka, seven days a week. Saiful Alam, general secretary of the association, came up with the announcement at a seminar at the Engineering Institution auditorium in Dhaka on Monday (September 23). The title of the seminar is ‘Our Pledge for Safe Roads for ...

China has said, with its visiting medical team, they will help Bangladesh assess the injuries and provide emergency humanitarian medical assistance based on Bangladesh’s needs, including sending more emergency medical teams to treat patients on-site and providing necessary medical supplies. This is the first emergency medical team from China to Bangladesh since the establishment of the Interim Government, which highlights ...