Bangladesh

Ekushey Padak-winning poet Asad Chowdhury passed away at a hospital in Canada on Thursday at the age of 80. He died around 1pm (Bangladesh time), his son-in-law Nadim Iqbal confirmed, adding that Asad Chowdhury had been suffering from old age complications, including blood cancer. He had been suffering from the blood cancer since November 2022. Asad Chowdhury was born on ...

Warning the government, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said, “The people of the country have woken up. Still time to resign leaving the power in the hands of non-partisan government. Otherwise, you have to face a difficult situation. People will not leave you.” “We have only one demand, we want to cast vote.” “Returned from America with ...

Dr Muhammad Yunus appeared in the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) office to give his statement in a money laundering case. He has been made the prime accused in the case. He went there alongwith his lawyer at about 9:37am. A team led by ACC deputy director Gulshan Anwar will quiz him. Dr Yunus’ lawyer Abdullah Al Mamun said his client appeared ...

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has strongly condemned and protested BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s remarks over the country’s existing law and judicial process. “BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir presented false and distorted information over the country’s legal matters before the nation,” he said in a statement on Wednesday, BSS reports. Quader, also road transport ...

Mentioning that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has said she would not leave the country accepting any condition, the party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said, “Khaleda Zia is our inspiration, our last resort. She struggled against the autocracy as many as nine years, but didn’t compromise. “In spite of it, she has been struggling for democracy. She is ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Bangladesh today signed a loan agreement for $120 million to improve access to basic services and climate resilience of remote and rural communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh. Sharifa Khan, Secretary, Economic Relations Division, and Edimon Ginting, ADB Country Director for Bangladesh signed the agreement on behalf of ...

The nucler fuel hand over ceremony (graduation ceremony) for Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) will be held at the plant site in Pabna’s Ishwardi on Thursday as Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to virtually join it. The two leaders are scheduled to join the handover event of the Certificate and Model of Nuclear ...

United States National Security Council (NSC) Coordinator for Strategic Communications, John Kirby, has said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and US President Joe Biden have discussed the importance of free and fair elections in Bangladesh. At a media briefing on October 4 at the White House, Kirby said the two leaders also talked about the importance of improving bilateral relationship ...

A court in Dhaka on Wednesday accepted the chargesheet against nine people in a case filed over the attack on former US Ambassador Marcia Barnicat’s motorcade. An arrest warrant was issued against Mohammad Ishtiaq Mahmud, brother-in-law of Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik’s (Sujan) secretary Badiul Alam Majumder, as he is absconding. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrae Jaki Al Farabi accepted the chargesheet and issued ...

Commenting on Khaleda Zia’s permanent bail for her treatment abroad, Law Minister Anisul Huq on Wednesday said that she has an opportunity to seek presidential pardon. “Any individual could seek a presidential pardon, it is his/her constitutional right.”