Bangladesh

The third terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport is set to have its soft opening on Saturday morning (October 7). Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will officially inaugurate the new terminal for the country’s leading international airport, that stands out as one of the most talked-about and exciting among all the ‘megaprojects’ undertaken by the AL-led government. Once the prime minister ...

Bangladesh Ambassador to Japan Shahabuddin Ahmed on Friday (Oct 6) urged Japanese businessmen and investors to invest in various sectors such as garment industry, leather, jute, light engineering, information technology, as well as in Economic Zones, Hi-Tech Parks and Export Processing Zones in Bangladesh. He told this at a Seminar on “Trade, Investment and Human Resources” organised by the Bangladesh ...

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today said the foreigners do not support the ill-effort to resist election. “Elections will be held on time and if anyone tries to disrupt the elections, the people of the country will resist it. Similarly, the foreigners never support the process of disrupting the elections,” he said. Dr Hasan, also Joint General Secretary ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said no one raised the issue of caretaker government during her recent visits to the US and the UK. “No one talked about caretaker government. There was no talk on the caretaker government system with anyone. No one asked me about it…,” she said while addressing a press conference at her official residence Ganabhaban in ...

Bangladesh on Thursday officially received the first batch of uranium for its Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) to become the 33rd nuclear power-producing country of the world. The dream project’s Russian contractor, Rosatom, handed over the radioactive fuel to the RNPP authority at a formal “Graduation Ceremony,” a milestone event joined virtually by Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Russian ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has returned home empty-handed from the United States. “Sheikh Hasina has come back from America in empty-hands. She put in much effort to cancel the visa policy and get rid of sanctions. They (US) didn’t pay heed to it,” he said. Inaugurating BNP’s road march from ...

Road Transport and Bridges Minister and Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said that he was not wrong when he said “a lot is going on behind the scenes.” He said this while exchanging views with journalists at the conference room of the Road Transport and Highways Department, at the Secretariat, reports UNB. Regarding his earlier remark that there ...

The last session of the current parliament will begin on October 22. President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Thursday summoned the 25th session of the 11th parliament exercising the power bestowed upon him as per the Clause (1) of Article 72 of the constitution. The session will began at 4pm on October 22 (Sunday) at the Parliament Bhaban in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) would remain as a symbol of strong bilateral ties between Dhaka and Moscow. “The flagship project meets the interests of both countries and promotes further deepening of mutually beneficial cooperation,” he said. Putun was addressing virtually from Moscow the nuclear fuel-uranium handover ceremony (graduation ceremony) for Rooppur Nuclear Power ...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday questioned seven people, including Grameen Telecom Chairman and Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus, in a case filed over alleged misappropriation of Tk 25.22 crore from the company’s Workers Profit Participation Fund (WPPF). “Grameen Telecom employees filed a complaint with the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments,” said Mahbub Hossain, secretary of the Anti-Corruption ...