Bangladesh

A coordinated Call Centre with hotline number of 16999 has been launched in the power sector through which consumer of any distribution company can lodge a complaint and get the solution. State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid formally launched the new Call Centre at a function at Biduyt Bhaban in the city on Thursday. He said ...

Bangladesh Ambassador to Lebanon Air Vice Marshal Javed Tanveer Khan has paid a courtesy call on President Mohammed Shahabuddin. The Ambassador met the President at Bangabhaban on Thurday noon. During the meeting, the ambassador sought the President’s full guidance in performing his duties. Besides strengthening bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Lebanon, President Shahabuddin directed him to explore trade and investment ...

The nineteenth death anniversary of Begum Ivy Rahman, former Women Affairs Secretary of the ruling Awami League and wife of late President Md Zillur Rahman, is being observed on Thursday. Ivy Rahaman, also the former president of Bangladesh Mahila Samity, received grievous injuries during a grisly grenade attack on an Awami League rally at Bangabandhu Avenue in the city on ...

The bilateral meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held in Johannesburg on Wednesday. The meeting was held at the Hotel Hilton Sandton here this evening on the sidelines of the 15th BRICS Summit, reports UNB. Bangladesh premier reached Johannesburg on August 22 to attend the summit being held at Johannesburg from August 22-24. On 24 ...

Jatiya Party (JaPa) chairman and deputy leader of the opposition in parliament GM Quader returned to the country on Wednesday (August 23) evening from India. The flight carrying GM Quader landed at 6:15pm at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. Leaders and workers of the party welcomed him at the airport. Earlier on Sunday afternoon, GM Quader left Dhaka for ...

The drafting of revised guidelines for foreign election observers will be finalised in the first week of September ahead of the upcoming national elections. Ashok Kumar Devnath, the additional secretary of the EC, said this to media on Wednesday after an inter-ministerial meeting regarding the issue. Earlier, the EC officials held a meeting with the representatives of the ministry of ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and his wife will go to Singapore on Thursday (August 24) for treatment. Fakhrul told the media that he has some new physical complications. For this, he has to go to Singapore in an emergency basis as per the doctors’ advice. Mirza Fakhrul will receive follow-up treatment at National University Hospital in Singpore ...

Habibur Rahman Khan, senior reporter of Bangla daily Jugantor, died from heart attack on Tuesday. He was 42. Family members said he complained of chest pain around 4:00pm. Habibur was rushed to the National Heart Foundation at Mirpur Section-2, where doctors declared him dead at 4:30pm, said his wife Farzana Mahmud. The journalist left behind his wife, a son, a ...

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said BNP killed about 22,000 AL leaders and activists during its regime from 2001-2006 when there was no room for democracy in the country. “BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged that we killed 22 of their leaders and activists. Fakhrul Saheb, you (BNP) have killed our 22,000 leaders and activists. ...

About the news that Jatiya Party (JaPa) chief patron Raushan Ershad declared herself as the chairman of the party, secretary general Mujibul Haque Chunnu said it is fake news. “This is fake news. There is no scope to become chairman like this according to our constitution of the party,” said Chunnu in a video message on Tuesday. Raushan Ershad declared ...