Bangladesh

Muslims in the country will start fasting from Friday as the Ramadan moon was not seen in any part of the country. The National Moon Sighting Committee took the decision at a meeting held at the Islamic Foundation office at Baitul Mukarram with State Minister for Religious Affairs Faridul Haque Khan in the chair on Wednesday evening. The state minister ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday announced more seven districts and 159 upazilas across the country as homeless and landless free while handing over 39365 more semi-pacca houses to the homeless people free of cost ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr. “I have declared seven more districts and 159 upazilas as homeless and landless free,” she said while handing over the houses ...

Authorities of Bangladesh Railway have decided to sell all advance train tickets for Eid-ul-Fitr online. Tickets for trains on April 17 will be sold on April 7, while tickets for April 18, 19, 20 and 21 will be sold on April 8, 9, 10 and 11. Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan came up with the information at a press briefing ...

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has underscored the urgent need for unity and concerted efforts from the international community to resolve the Rohingya crisis, in the true spirit of responsibility and burden sharing. He urged the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Myanmar, Noeleen Heyzer, to enhance her engagements with Myanmar authorities as well as other stakeholders to improve ...

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md. Shahriar Alam on Tuesday said the US’s 2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in Bangladesh contains some “fundamental shortcomings and mistakes” and Dhaka will raise those to Washington. “We will raise these shortcomings with the US side so that such things do not exist in the next year’s report,” he told reporters at ...

President M Abdul Hamid on Tuesday (March 21, 2023) evening received credentials from the ambassadors of Turkey and Philippines to Bangladesh in two subsequent ceremonies and they were ceremonially welcomed at Bangabhaban in Dhaka. The envoys are Ramis Sen of the Republic of Turkey and Leo Tito L. Ausan Jr. of the Republic of the Philippines. Receiving their credentials, the ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has insisted on proper utilisation of the projects coming out of the tendency to construct buildings and purchasing foreign cars. She gave the insistence at a meeting of the ECNEC held at the NEC Conference Room in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar. The meeting approved a total of 9 projects with an overall of estimated cost of ...

Bangla Mirror Desk:   The British High Commission, the British Council and the new Imperial College Alumni Association of Bangladesh came together to celebrate the UK’s excellence in Science and Medicine, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, by arranging a reception at the British High Commissioner’s Residence.. The event was inaugurated by the British High Commissioner, HE Mr Robert Chatterton Dickson. He ...

BNP vice-chairman Shaukat Mahmood has been expelled from the party. Shayrul Kabir Khan, a member of the party’s media cell, confirmed the matter this on Tuesday. He is the former president and general secretary of Jatiya Press Club. Shaukat Mahmood was expelled from all posts and his primary membership of the party was cancelled on charge of his involvement in ...

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas on Tuesday said his country is committed to working with Bangladesh to eliminate corruption – enabling Bangladeshis to enjoy lives of dignity and drawing more international trade and foreign investment. “If Bangladesh can assure citizens and investors that corruption is less prevalent here than in other markets, it will attract more investment and help ...