Bangladesh

Households paid total Tk12,633 crore bribes in different public and semi-public service sectors in a year under the interim government, said the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Thursday. TIB presented the findings of a citizen survey at a press conference held at its Dhanmondi office. The survey covered 1,149 randomly selected urban and rural areas across the country over the ...

British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke paid a courtesy call on Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed at the latter’s ministry office on Thursday. The meeting, held in a cordial atmosphere, discussed various issues of mutual interest, including law and order, security cooperation between the two countries, and the Rohingya issue. Referring to the existing deep and friendly relations between Bangladesh ...

The 11-party Opposition Alliance, led by Jamaat-e-Islami, will launch a 36-day programme on 1 July to observe the second anniversary of the July Uprising. Jamaat-e-Islami Assistant Secretary General Hamidur Rahman Azad announced the programme at a press conference held at the party head office, Moghbazar in the capital on Thursday. As per the plans, the alliance will host seminars at ...

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the Communist Party of China (CPC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), marking the first formal agreement between the two political parties. The MoU was signed at 8:45am local time on Thursday (25 June) at the state-run Diaoyutai Guesthouse in Beijing. On behalf of the BNP, Prime Minister’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs and ...

A Dhaka court on Thursday deferred the charge-framing hearing until July 26 in a murder case filed over the killing of truck driver Md. Hossain during the July movement, in which former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 33 others have been accused. Judge Robiul Alam of Dhaka Special Judge Court-4 set the new date after a hearing on Thursday. Defence ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has invited Chinese companies to extend their value chain into Bangladesh to co-author the next great Asian economic miracle in the country. “We are inviting Chinese companies to extend their value chain into Bangladesh. We can help Chinese companies serve global markets while benefitting from growing large domestic demand,” he said. The Prime Minister was addressing ...

London, 21 June: Prominent academics, legal experts and political commentators gathered in East London on 21 June for a seminar examining Bangladesh’s political and social landscape following the dramatic political developments of August 2024. Titled “From Uprising to Uncertainty: Bangladesh Post-August 2024 Political and Social Landscape,” the event was jointly organised by five international and European organisations and brought together ...

A Dhaka court on Wednesday ordered that former lawmaker and singer Momtaz Begum be shown arrested in an attempted murder case linked to the July movement in the capital’s Mirpur area. Metropolitan Magistrate Ariful Islam passed the order after police submitted an application seeking her arrest in the case filed by Md. Muktar Hossain with Mirpur Model Police Station. Investigating ...

Kazakhstan Prime Minister Oljas Bektenov today paid a courtesy call on Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Conference in China. The meeting was held at about 10:15 am (local time), according to the PM’s Press Wing. During the meeting, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman emphasized on strengthening bilateral relations between Bangladesh and ...

The government has launched an Online Pension Tracking and Management System (OPTMS) to streamline pension services, reduce processing delay and ensure transparency in pension services for retired public servants. State Minister for Public Administration and Food Md Abdul Bari inaugurated a workshop on the OPTMS at the Ministry of Public Administration in the Bangladesh Secretariat on Tuesday, said a press ...