Bangladesh

President Mohammed Shahabuddin, now undergoing treatment in Singapore National University Hospital, returned to his hotel room from the hospital on Wednesday morning and has performed official activities there. “The President’s health condition is quite good now… He returned to the hotel from hospital this morning and is doing his official activities virtually,” President’s personal physician Brigadier General Zulfikar Ahmed Amin ...

Jamaat-e-Islami central committee’s publicity secretary Adv Motiur Rahman Akand was picked up from Uttara in the capital on Wednesday morning. Police’s Uattar Division DC Morshed Alam said Motiur Rahman was arrested from his residence in sector 14 at about 11am. According to Jamaat’s Dhaka Metropolitan South publicity secretary Ataur Rahman Sarker, Motiur Rahman Akand has undergone a bypass surgery. He ...

Three people were killed in Cox’s Bazar district after wall and tree collapsed on them when the Cyclone Hamoon crossed Bangladesh’s coastal districts on Tuesday night. Of the deceased, two were identified as Abdul Khaleq, 40, resident of ward no 7 of the municipality; and Haradhon Dev, 45, of Moheshkhali upazila. Another one killed in Chakaria upazila after tree fell ...

Former Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain passed away at a city hospital early Wednesday after suffering from a cardiac arrest. He was 72. He breathed his last at about 2am at United Hospital where he was admitted on Tuesday evening with severe heart problem. The minister’s personal secretary Shomir Chandra Dev confirmed the death news. Syed Abul Hossain, lawmaker from ...

Three physicians from the United States are coming to Dhaka on Wednesday for the treatment of ailing Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia. The home ministry gave permission following an application of the BNP Chairperson’s family, sources inside BNP said on Tuesday. The government has accorded permission to bring three foreign physicians to Dhaka, said Law Minister Anisul Huq. ...

The United States is “closely monitoring” developments in Bangladesh ahead of the national polls, US Department of State said. Mathew Miller, spokesperson at the US Department of State, said, “It’s important for free and fair elections that all stakeholders are able to participate peacefully.” He was addressing reporters during a regular briefing in Washington on Monday. That includes government officials, ...

The by-election to Patuakhali-1 constituency is set to be held on November 26. Election Commission Secretary Jahangir Alam said the EC announced the schedule of the elections after a meeting of the commissioners on Tuesday. He said the last date for submission of nomination papers is November 1 while the last date for withdrawal of candidature is November 9. On ...

Former High Court judge and Bangladesh Law Commission chairman Md Abdur Rashid died on Tuesday morning. Appellate Division registrar Mohammad Saifur Rahman said that justice Rashid died at United Hospital in Dhaka at about 8:30am. The government appointed Rashid as the chairman of the Commission for three years on April 21, 2009 after he retired as High Court judge. Justice ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina departed for Brussels this morning for a three-day official visit to Belgium to attend the “Global Gateway Forum”, to be held there on October 25-26. She is going to Brussels at the invitation of the European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen. “A commercial flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the prime minister and her ...

Durga puja, the largest religious festival of Hindus, will end in Bangladesh with the immersion of idols on Tuesday evening. On the last day of the puja, devotees are thronging mandaps in Dhaka and elsewhere across the country for Bijoya Dashami, the last day of the grand festival, to celebrate the triumph of the Goddess Durga over the buffalo demon ...