Bangladesh

Professor Dr Md Imdadul Haque, vice-chancellor of Jagannath University (JnU), passed away at a hospital in the capital early Saturday. He breathed his last at 5am at BRB Hospital, said the university’s Bangla Department Chairman Prof Dr Milton Bishwas. Imdadul Haque was a cancer patient. He went to Singapore on September 12 for better treatment and came back home on ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the common people are the victims of the arson violence that has started again in the name of movement. “I don’t know who gets how much benefit from it. But some people, particularly the common people, are being victims,” she said while receiving donations from different financial institutes for her relief fund at her ...

Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra said that as far as Bangladesh is concerned, India has shared its “perspective very clearly” at the India-US 2+2 ministerial dialogue held in New Delhi on Friday (November 10), reports BSS. “We did discuss very extensively regional issues, and so far Bangladesh is concerned, we shared our perspective very clearly in the dialogue,” he ...

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has blamed that BNP and its allies have instigation in the ongoing movement of garment workers. “It is clear that BNP and its allies have a black hand in the workers’ movement in garment factories,” he told a joint meeting of the party at AL central office at Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital on ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will flag off the much awaited 102-kilometre Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar rail line on Saturday, bridging up the country’s tourist hub with the port city through the railway connectivity as well. She will unveil the new rail route (from Dohazari in Chattogram to Cox’s Bazar) for train movement from a ceremony in newly constructed Cox’s Bazar Railway Station. ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed to take measures against the individual who has threatened a foreign diplomat through his public speech. State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam confirmed it on Friday, reports UNB. He said Bangladesh respects all norms and responsibilities related to diplomatic relations and expects full reciprocity. The prime minister issued the directives while charing ...

A total of 64 buses were set on fire in the capital from October 28 to November 9, according to Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). Sixty-four cases have, so far, been filed with different police stations in the capital in connection with the arson attacks. DMP Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime and Operations) Khandaker Mahid Uddin revealed the information at a ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after inaugurating the ‘Mrityunjoyee Prangyan’ which consists a sculpture of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has said that this sculpture of Bangabandhu is merely not a sculpture, it is a history to know the country. “This sculpture of Father of the Nation is merely not a sculpture, it’s a history. It’s a history ...

Shaheed Nur Hossain Day, a red-letter day to restore democracy in the country, is being observed on Friday (November 10) in befitting manner. On this day in 1987, Awami Juba League (AJL) leader Nur Hossain, who imprinted his bare chest and back with the slogans ‘Free democracy’ and ‘Down with autocracy’, embraced martyrdom in police firing during an anti-autocracy demonstration ...

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has asked garments workers to join work accepting the newly announced minimum wage. “I am asking the garment workers to join work under the newly increased wages. They must proceed with their work,” she said while speaking at Awami League’s executive committee meeting at Ganabhaban in Dhaka on Thursday (November 9). She ...