Bangladesh

US Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA) Afreen Akhter on Monday discussed issues of mutual interest including elections and the Rohingya issues with Bangladesh. “Bangladesh and the United States want free and fair elections conducted in a peaceful manner,” said the US Embassy in Dhaka after Afreen’s meeting with Foreign Secretary Masud Bin ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday asked the officials concerned to make sure that developments projects don’t impede the free flow of water bodies, including rivers and canals. “We have to ensure the uninterrupted flow of rivers. Keeping that in mind, we have to carry out our projects and development activities,” she said, reports UNB. The prime minister said this ...

Senior journalist Aminur Rahman Taj passed away on Monday morning at his residence in the capital at the age of 69. He died at about 10:10am at his Malibagh Chowdhuripara residence, his younger brother Miraz confirmed, adding that, Aminur Rahman had returned home three days ago from National Heart Foundation. On October 7, Aminur Rahman suffered a cardiac arrest and ...

President Mohammmed Shahabuddin left Dhaka on Monday for Singapore for medical treatment. An aircraft, BG-584, of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the president took off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 8:50 am, Press secretary to the President Joynal Abedin told UNB. Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque, dean of the diplomatic corps, cabinet secretary, chiefs of the three services, ...

Human rights NGO Odhikar’s secretary Adilur Rahman Khan and director Nasiruddin Elan walked out of jail on bail on Sunday. They came out of Dhaka Central Jail at Keraniganj around 7:00pm, said Subhash Kumar Ghosh, senior jail super. On October 10, the High Court granted bail to Adilur and Nasir, after they were sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in a ...

President Mohammmed Shahabuddin will leave Dhaka for Singapore on Monday to undergo medical treatment at Mount Elizabeth Hospital. “A commercial flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Ltd, carrying the President and his entourage members, will leave Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport for Singapore at 8:30 am,” President’s Press Secretary Md Joynal Abedin said, reports BSS. The Head of State is expected ...

Bangladesh has strongly condemned the growing civilian casualties including women and children as well as the disproportionate use of force in Gaza. Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen expressed the condemnation while Palestinian Ambassador in Dhaka HE Yousef SY Ramadan paid a courtesy call on him at his ministry office in Dhaka on Sunday. Following the meeting, the Ministry of Foreign ...

A Dhaka court has set January 3 for submitting probe report in a case filed against Grameen Telecom Chairman and Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus and 12 others for allegedly embezzling Tk 25 crore from the company. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Asaduzzaman set the new date as the investigation agency Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) failed to submit the report on Sunday. ...

Professor ASM Maksud Kamal has been appointed as the 29th vice-chancellor of Dhaka University. A notification issued by the education ministry on Sunday said Professor Maksud Kamal of Disaster Science and Climate Resilience Department has been temporarily appointed as the next vice-chancellor of Dhaka University. President Mohammed Shahabuddin, also the chancellor of Dhaka University, gave him the appointment, it said. ...

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said if BNP wants to hold a dialogue without any conditions, it will be discussed. He made the statements while exchanging views with journalists at the secretariat in the capital on Sunday morning. He said, “I will think about dialogue when they (BNP) withdraw the four conditions. We ...