Bangladesh

Education Minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel on Sunday that If the temperature in any district exceeds 42 degrees, the educational institutions of the respective area will be closed. Mohibul Hasan told this while responding to a question at a programme marking the Technical and Vocational Education Week 2024 at the Dhaka Mohila Polytechnic Institute on Sunday afternoon. He said it ...

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) has issued a forecast indicating rain or thundershowers in the Chattogram and Sylhet divisions within the next 24 hours, starting from 9:00 am on Sunday. According to the latest meteorological bulletin, Rain or thundershowers, accompanied by temporary gusty or squally winds, are likely to occur at one or two places over the Chattogram and Sylhet divisions, ...

Two Bangladeshi nationals were shot dead in broad daylight in Buffalo of New York on Saturday. The killing took place around 12:30pm on Saturday local time on Zenner Street The deceased were identified as Babul Uddin, 36, from Cumilla, and Yusuf Mia, 58, from Sylhet’s Kanaighat upazila. They were doing some repair work at the house of an expatriate Bangladeshi ...

The results of this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent exams are expected to be published in the second week of May. “Usually the results are published within 60 days after the completion of the written examination. So the result is likely to be published within May 11”, said Tapan Kumar Sarker, Chairman of Dhaka Education Board and President ...

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) on Sunday morning extended the heat alert for three more days as the ongoing heatwave is expected to continue for the next 72 hours. “Due to increasing moisture incursion, the discomfort may increase. The 72-hour heat alert started from today and will continue till April 30,” according to the warning notice of the meteorological department. The ...

All the primary schools, high schools and colleges reopened on Sunday (April 28) amid intense heatwave. But pre-primary level classes will remain closed until further notice, and daily school assemblies will be suspended to avoid prolonged exposure to the heat. Even any work outside the classroom cannot be done by the students. While visiting some school and colleges in the ...

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Saturday alleged that Bangladesh has been turned into a gas chamber due to unplanned urbanization. “Bangladesh is now a valley of death due to a hoax development of the current dummy government,” he said. The BNP leader also accused the government of putting lives in jeopardy through deforestation, silting up of ...

Bangla Mirror Desk:   Hon’ble Minister of State for Expatriates Welfare and Foreign Employment Shafiqur Rahman Chowdhury MP called on British-Bangladeshis to play a special role in building the Smart Bangladesh announced by the Prime Minister to sending remittances through legal channels. He said, “The money sent by expatriates to Bangladesh through legal channels will be protected and there is ...

Bangla Mirror Desk:   Bangladesh Envoy to the UK Saida Muna Tasneem has received the ‘Diplomat of the Year Award 2024’ from the globally eminent Diplomat Magazine.The award was handed over to the High Commissioner by the Speaker of the British Parliament Sir Lindsay Hoyle on 22 April 2024 in London. Earlier in 2023 High Commissioner Tasneem was elected as ...

The 71st birthday of heroic freedom fighter Sheikh Jamal, second son of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, will be observed on Sunday (April 28). Born on April 28 in 1954 at Tungipara in Gopalganj, Sheikh Jamal did his matriculation from Dhaka Residential Model College and intermediate from Dhaka College. He was also under house arrest along with ...