Bangladesh

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 ...

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said that there is stain of worker’s blood in BNP’s hands. “They (BNP leaders) do not have the strength of waging movement. Movement requires people. People are not with them. The blood stain of August 15 and August is 21 in their hands. The stain of ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was taken to Evercare Hospital on Wednesday afternoon for some medical tests as per her medical board’s decision. “Khaleda Zia was taken to Evercare Hospital in the capital on Wednesday evening from her Gulshan residence. Several medical tests of her were conducted,” said the party press wing Samsuddin Dider. Earlier on March 30, the BNP chairpersons ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asked the mills and factories owners to pay special attention to the labourers’ welfare cutting some luxury in their lives. “I want the owners to pay special attention to the labourers reducing their luxury a little bit as the labourers have given you the scope to lead lavish life by increasing production through their ...