Bangladesh

Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus has said a free, fair and participatory election will be held in the country after necessary reforms to administration, judiciary, the Election Commission (EC), electoral system and law-order sector. “A free, fair and participatory election will be held after necessary reforms to administration, judiciary, the Election Commission, electoral system, law-order sector and free flow ...

Finance Adviser Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed urged investors from the United States to invest more in Bangladesh’s agriculture, energy, climate change-related and other sectors. He made this call to the US while talking with reporters after a meeting with Helen LaFave, Chargé D’affaires of the US Embassy, Dhaka at the Bangladesh Secretariat on Sunday (August 25), reports UNB. “The US is ...

The flood situation in five districts –Moulvibazar, Habiganj, Feni, Cumilla and Chattogram- continues to improve. According to the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC), the water level of major rivers in north-eastern, eastern and south-eastern regions of the country keeps falling. In its bulletin FFWC mentioned that no significant rainfall was observed in eastern Cumilla, Brahmanbaria and Feni districts bordering ...

Interim government’s Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday urged China to relocate some of its solar panel factories to Bangladesh in an effort to boost the country’s green transition and exports. Chinese manufacturers “can relocate” solar panel factories to Bangladesh, which will help Bangladesh diversify exports and help transition into a green economy, the 2006 Nobel Peace Laureate said. ...

Police detained former lawmaker and Awami League’s publicity and publication secretary, Abdus Sobhan Miah alias Golap, from Nakhalpara in Dhaka on Sunday afternoon. Mobarak Hossain, officer-in-charge of Tejgaon Police Station, said they picked up Golap for interrogation around 2:45pm. Golap was elected parliament member from the Madaripur-3 constituency in the 2018 general election.

A murder case has been filed against 11 individuals, including former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, over the death of Md Abdur Rahim, a former deputy assistant director (DAD) of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), who died in prison. Advocate Abdul Aziz, son of Abdur Rahim, filed the case on Sunday with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Akhtaruzzaman. Other accused ...

Cumilla’s Brahmanpara upazila is now submerged by flood water. At least 30 villages of the upazila have been flooded since Saturday evening to Sunday morning as the embankment of the Gumti River has broke down. The water began to rise on Saturday afternoon and the houses in the upazila were completely submerged by evening. According to the upazila administration, around ...

Former Textile and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi was arrested from a house in the capital’s Shantinagar area early Sunday. A team of Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested him at about 3AM from a house of Dastagir’s relative. Confirming the arrest news, Paltan Police Station OC Mollah Mohammad Khalid Hussain said Golam Dastagir Gazi, also the chairman of Gazi ...

Sixteen gates of the spillway of Kaptai Dam in Rangamati have been opened at a height of six inches at 8:10AM on Sunday. Now the water, which has reached near the danger level, is being released through these 16 gates. The Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) confirmed the matter this morning. ATM Abduzzaher, manager of Kaptai Hydropower Plant, said it ...

Chief Adviser to the interim government Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus has urged the country’s people to come forward to addressing the ongoing devastating flood. “With the initiatives and encouragement of the youth, the country’s people should jump into addressing the flood together. We must tackle the flood unitedly,” he said after a meeting with the representatives of non-government organisations (NGOs) ...