Bangladesh

Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi called on visiting Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina here on Monday. She was accompanied by former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and party’s General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. “CPP Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi, and General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra ji called on the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina Wazed ...

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Monday hinted that many people may be arrested in connection with the murder of lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar. “Many suspects may be arrested after completing the investigation of the Anar murder case,” he told journalists replying to a question at his ministry office in the capital. Replying to another question about a local leader ...

Three Rohingya men were reportedly hacked and shot dead during a clash between two rival groups Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) and Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO) at Ukhiya camp in Cox’s Bazar on Monday over establishing supremacy in the camp. The deceased were identified as Md Elias and Md Ishaq and Firoz Khan. Additional DIG Md Iqbal, commanding officer of ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi have expressed their desire that the existing bilateral relations between the two neighbouring countries would be further deepened in the future. “The two leaders have expressed their hopes that the existing bilateral relations will be deepened further in the days to come,” Foreign Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud told a news ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today paid a courtesy call on senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani at the latter’s residence here. “During the meeting, both the leaders talked about their personal matters,” Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Md. Mustafizur Rahman told BSS. They also exchanged pleasantries and reminisced past memories, he added. Sheikh Hasina arrived in New Delhi on Saturday ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday evening attended the oath-taking ceremony of Narendra Modi as the prime minister of India for a third consecutive term. She joined the oath-taking ceremony as the third foreign leader at the Rashtrapati Bhavan with her daughter Saima Wazed. Top leaders from Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Bhutan, Nepal, Mauritius, and Seychelles joined the swearing-in ceremony ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today reiterated her country’s eagerness to import hydro electricity from Bhutan through India when Bhutanese Prime Minister Dasho Tshering Tobgay paid a courtesy call on her at the latter’s Place of Residence here. “Import of hydroelectricity will require a tripartite agreement involving India and we have already brought the matter to their (India’s) attention,” she told ...

Rejecting the next fiscal’s proposed budget outright, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has said that the entire budget is an imaginative, reliant on bank borrowings, and looters’ friendly. “Awami League government has proposed this budget to legalise their own theft,” said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir while addressing a press conference at BNP Chairperson’s political office at Gulshan in ...

West Bengal’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have recovered some bones from Bagjola canal near Krishwnamati Bridge area during a search with accused Siam. Initially, they appear to be human bones. Kolkata police started the search operation around 8am. Earlier, they conducted several operations but failed to recover anything. Today they recovered the bones within 30 hours’ of operation. On Saturday, ...

The postponed elections in 19 cyclone Remal-hit upazilas across the country are underway on Sunday. Voting began at 8am at 1,181 polling centres in these upazilas and will continue uninterrupted till 4pm. Votes are being cast by EVM in Pirojpur’s Mathbaria, while the rest are using traditional ballot papers. A total of 330 candidates are contesting the polls. Of them ...