Bangladesh

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 ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has termed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s remarks on whitening undisclosed income as “tactics to create smokescreen.” He made the remark while speaking at a discussion at Jatiya Press Club in the capital on Saturday (June 8). The discussion titled “What we need to do for the emancipation of Bengalees and Sirajul Alam Khan” ...

A total of 214 illegal immigrants, including 123 Bangladeshis, have been arrested by the Malaysia’s Johor Immigration Department during raids on workers’ settlements near Kampung Belokok, and Jalan Lingkaran Dalam in Johor Baru. Immigration Deputy Director-General (Operations) Jafri Embok Taha said 140 officers and department personnel conducted the first raid at 12.45am on Saturday (June 8), reports The Star. He ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday reached New Delhi to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as the prime minister for a third consecutive term. She is visiting Indian capital to join the oath-taking ceremony at her Indian counterpart’s invitation. A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the prime minister and her entourage members landed at the Palam ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka for New Delhi on Saturday morning to attend the oath-taking ceremony of her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi. A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the prime minister and her entourage departed the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 10:15 am. The flight is scheduled to land at New Delhi’s Palam Air Force ...

The holy Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious festival of the Muslims, will be celebrated across the Bangladesh on June 17 as Zilhaj month moon was sighted. The National Moon Sighting Committee announced the date at the meeting hall of the Islamic Foundation at Baitul Mukarram around 7.30 pm. A meeting regarding moon sighting was presided over by the Minister of ...

Police will monitor the cattle markets in the capital ahead of holy Eid-ul-Azha using drones. At the same time, the cattle markets will be brought under special security blanket, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Habibur Rahman on while addressing a press conference at the DMP Media Centre in the capital on Friday morning. He said closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras ...

Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Friday has requested the countrymen to wait for six months to bring inflation under control. He said inflation will begin to decline by the end of this year in line with the measures taken in the budget. The finance minister was speaking at a post-budget press conference held at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium ...

Describing the six-point movement a turning point, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said on Friday that those who don’t acknowledge it don’t believe in the independence of Bangladesh. He came up with the remark while talking to reporters after paying homage to the portrait of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, at Dhanmondi 32 in the ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing a wreath at his portrait in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi in the capital on the occasion of the historic Six-Point Day. After laying the wreath at 7 in the morning, the Prime Minister stood in solemn silence ...