Bangladesh

Women have been humiliated and insulted most during the 16 years of rule of Sheikh Hasina, said BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. He said the International Women’s Day is being observed in Bangladesh such a time when the country’s womenfolk are repressed and suppressed everywhere. Rizvi was addressing a press conference at the party’s central office at ...

Veteran journalist and freedom fighter Syed Ahmed Atal has passed away. He was 71. He breathed his last on Friday morning while undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit (ICU) at Asgar Ali Hospital in the capital. Atal was in life support at the hospital since Thursday. He was admitted there in a very critical state after suffering from various ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday asked the women to build the country, contributing to the society equally alongside their male counterparts. “Today if we have to progress economically, and men and women can build a country equally with their work,” she said. The premier was addressing a discussion and Joyeeta Award-giving ceremony arranged in the capital to mark the ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday conferred “Best Joyeeta Award-2023” at the national level to five women as recognition of their outstanding achievements in different fields by overcoming difficulties and challenges. She handed over the award at a function organised to mark the International Women’s Day-2024 at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the capital, reports UNB. The best awardees are- Anar ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the international recognition of Bangabandhu’s historic March 7 speech proves that history can not be obliterated, although the anti-liberation forces tried it. “History can not be erased, truth can not be covered by false, and now that has been proved. The historical speech of March 7 has attained its the recognition in the world,” she ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of the historic 7th March. She paid the homage by placing a wreath at the portrait of the Father of the Nation in front of the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi in the capital at 7am. After laying the ...

The nation is observing the historic 7th March on Thursday in a befitting manner, commemorating the landmark speech of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, which was touted as an indirect declaration of the country’s independence in 1971. Marking the day, the ruling AL hoisted national and party flags atop Bangabandhu Bhaban and party offices at 6:30am. Prime Minister Sheikh ...

Leader of the Opposition in parliament and Jatiya Party (JaPa) Chairman GM Quader has held a meeting with US Ambassador to Dhaka Peter D Haas. They held an hour-long meeting at the US Embassy in Dhaka on Wednesday (March 6) afternoon. The meeting continued till 4:00pm starting at 3:00pm. GM Quader was accompanied by his political adviser Mashrur Mowla. Asked ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the RAB to further strengthen their drives against food hoarding and the circulation of counterfeit currencies ahead of Ramadan and Eid, along with taking tougher legal action against militancy, terrorism, drug abuse, and teenagers’ gang culture. “Some of our unscrupulous traders keep hoarding the commodities, which we require the most during the month of ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin reached United Kingdom (UK) from United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday night (Bangladesh Time) for a health check up. “The President reached London at 04:30 pm (London time) from Dubai starting to fly at 12:30 pm (local time) on Tuesday by an aircraft of Emirates Airlines,” Md Ashequn Nabi Chowdhury, press minister at the High Commission of Bangladesh in ...