Bangladesh

The results of this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent exams will be published on May 12. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to officially inaugurate the SSC and equivalent examination result publication programme from Ganabhaban at 10am on May 12. An Education Ministry source said on Friday. Education Minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury will formally hand over the results ...

Mamunul Haque, former Joint Secretary General of Hefazat-e-Islam, was released from Kashimpur jail in Gazipur on Friday morning. Subrato Kumar, senior jail super of Kashimpur High Security Jail, said Mamunul Haque walked out from the prison around 10:40am. Hearing his release news, Mamunul Haque’s followers started gathering in front of the Kashimpur jail on Thursday evening. But he failed to ...

State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat has said the government, civil society and mass media can be partners to fight together against the agenda based motivated journalism and disinformation campaign. “Sometimes, media is abused and disinformation campaign is carried out in the country to stop our development using environment and climate change issues as shield . . ...

A Dhaka court on Thursday (May 2) placed Milton Samaddar, founder of ‘Child and Old Age Care’ at Mirpur in the capital, on a three-day remand in a case filed with Mirpur Police Station over issuing fake death certificates through fraud. Dhaka’s Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Tofazzal Hossain’s court passed the order after the hearing on Thursday afternoon. Earlier, ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir along with his wife left Dhaka for Saudi Arabia on Thursday afternoon to perform Umrah. He left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 3:20pm by a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines. His wife Rahat Ara Begum was accompanying him. BNP Media Cell’s member Shayrul Kabir Khan confirmed it. He said Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir ...

Former BNP leader Major General (retd) Abu Ahmed Zahirul Amin Khan (ZA Khan) has passed away. He was 79. Family sources confirmed that ZA Khan breathed his last at his Gulshan residence around 11 am on Wednesday. He left behind wife, two sons, and a host of relatives and well-wishers to mourn his death, reports UNB. Khan will be laid ...

Bangla Mirror Desk:   Leaders of expatriate organization NRB CIP Association met with President Mohammad Sahabuddin. They met at Bangabhaban on Monday (April 29) afternoon. Senior officials including military secretary of Bangabhaban were present on the occasion. Meanwhile, a delegation led by the president of the association, Mahatabur Rahman, discussed various problems of expatriates. During this time, they discussed in ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina declared her recent six-day trip to Thailand as a landmark success, aimed at safeguarding Bangladesh’s economic interests and elevating its regional presence. The visit, which took place from April 24 to April 29, was prompted by an invitation from Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin. During a press briefing at her official residence, Ganabhaban, on Thursday, Prime ...

A Dhaka court on Thursday accepted the bail petition of Nobel Laureate economist Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus and 13 other accused in a case filed over misappropriation of Tk 25.22 crore of Grameen Telecom Workers’ Profit Participation Fund. Dhaka Special Judges Court-4 Judge Sayed Arafat Hossain granted them the bail in the case following an application filed by Dr Yunus’s lawyer this morning. ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has alleged that the democracy-loving people of Bangladesh are deprived of their minimum basic rights. “But, our movement will continue unless and until the democracy is restored in Bangladesh and people get their voting rights back,” he said while speaking as the chief guest at a workers’ rally organised by the party’s labour ...