Bangladesh

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 ...

After two days’ break, the main opposition BNP and like-minded parties are going to announce another 48-hour blockade from Sunday (November 12). The announcement was made on Thursday afternoon. Though the hartal programme was discussed as an alternative to the blockade in the fourth phase, in the end, the BNP’s high command decided to call for the blockade, a party ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Thursday asked the Election Commission (EC) to play responsible role with courage and sincerity to hold next national elections in a free, fair and credible manner following the constitutional rules and regulations. “It is not possible for the Election Commission (EC) alone to conduct a free and fair election . . . A fair and credible ...

Advocate Tamanna Ferdous has been relieved from the post of assistant attorney general for slapping and humiliating her collegue. The Solicitor Wing under the Law and Justice Division of the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs issued a notice in this regard on Thurday at the directive of the President. Earlier, on October 9 last assistant attorney general Tamanna ...

The US State Department has termed the threat to beat US Ambassador to Dhaka Peter Haas ‘deeply unhelpful’. Principal Deputy Spokesperson of the State Department, Vedant Patel, made the remark while replying to a query from a journalist at a regular briefing on Wednesday. Mujibul Huque Chowdhury, Chambal union parishad chairman and Union Awami League convener under Banshkhali upazila in ...

Grameen Telecom boss and Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus has appeared before a court to defend himself in a case tied to the violation of labour laws. He arrived at the Srama Bhaban in Dhaka around Thursday noon and reached the court on the sixth floor of the building as the elevator has been out of service for several months, ...

Thirteen arson attacks have been reported across the country from 6am on Wednesday to  9am on Thursday during the ongoing 48-hour blockade. Of these, five arson attacks were reported in Dhaka City Corporation areas, three in Gazipur, one in Khagrachhari, one in Bogura, two in Barishal and Barguna, and one in Noakhali, said Talha Bin Jasim, station officer of Fire ...

The second and last day of the countrywide 48-hour blockade of the main opposition BNP, Jamaat and like-minded parties, is underway with normal presence of public transport on roads. The blockade will end at 6 am on Friday. Rickshaws and CNG-run autorickshaws are dominating on the Dhaka streets while a few private vehicles are seen plying the streets. Guardians were ...

Journalist and presenter Mithila Farzana has been given two-year contractual appointment to the post of director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Ministry of Public Administration issued a circular in this regard on Wednesday. The circular states that Mobasshira Farzana Mithila has been appointed to the post of director/counselor (Grade-5) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for two years ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy has said the country’s estimated loss to the economy stands at over US$3.5 billion from the six days alone between October 28 and November 6 as BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami, and their allies observed a total of six days of blockades and strikes. “The hardest hit are small traders, day labourers, and ...