Bangladesh

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has highlighted the importance of both formal and non-formal education programs to build an illiteracy-free Bangladesh. “Education is one of the basic human rights. Education is also the main tool of nation building,” he said in a message marking the International Literacy Day that falls on September 8, reports UNB. The main aim of celebrating ...

Hundreds of job seekers staged demonstration blocking Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka on Saturday to press home their demand for extending the age limit up to 35 years for government jobs. The protesters carried a banner urging the chief adviser’s attention to their demands. They said that the current age limit for civil service applications is 30. They have been carrying ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Saturday visited critically injured persons of the student-mass upsurge at the National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital as he inquired about their health. “He (Professor Dr Yunus) saw the conditions of four students who were being treated in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital,” its director Professor Dr Quazi Deen Mohammad told the ...

Religious Affairs adviser Dr AFM Khalid Hossain has said madrasa students will be deployed to guard the temples during the upcoming Durga Puja festival. He made the remarks while talking to journalists after attending an opinion-sharing meeting with different religious leaders including alems and ulemas organised by the Islamic Foundation in Rajshahi city on Saturday morning. The Religious Affairs adviser ...

Youth and Sports adviser Asif Mahmud Sajeeb Bhuiyan has said a committee will be formed by Sunday with architects and museum experts to turn Ganabhaban into the ‘July Uprising Memorial Museum’. “Will start inauguration work soon,” he said after visiting Ganabhaban on Saturday (September 7). Earlier on Thursday, the interim government took the decision to turn Ganabhaban into the ‘July ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party has started its processing to take party Chairperson Khaleda Zia abroad for advanced medical treatment. But as she is not physically fit enough to travel for a long time by plane, the party leader decided to take her by an air ambulance. They are trying to arrange the air ambulance from Qatar. Dr AZM Zahid, a personal ...

A case has been filed last night (Thursday) with Cumilla Kotwali Model Police Station against 133 people, including former members of parliament (MPs) former railways minister Mujibul Haque and AKM Bahauddin Bahar for injuring some people by shooting during the anti-discrimination student movement in Sadar upazila of the district. Kazi Md. Sohel, son of Abdul Karim, resident of Alekharchar area, ...

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has reassured its continuous support in transforming Bangladesh’s rural economy. The pledge was made when IFAD’s newly appointed Country Director for Bangladesh Dr Valantine Achancho presented his credentials to foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain at the Foreign Ministry here on Wednesday, said a IFAD press release today. During the meeting, Achancho said ...

Hundreds of students and people on Friday held a long march from Dhaka to Cumilla, holding rallies along the way in an effort to mobilise support in favour of their demand for demolishing dams built by India on common rivers. They said that India built the dams unilaterally on the common rivers controlling natural flow of the rivers violating international ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s younger son late Arafat Rahman Koko’s wife Sharmila Rahman Sithi has arrived in Dhaka from London. She reached the BNP Chairperson’s residence Firoza at Gulshan in Dhaka on Thursday (September 5) afternoon. BNP’s Media Cell member Shayrul Kabir Khan confirmed it. Earlier, Sharmila Rahman arrived in Dhaka on January 28 last. Khaleda Zia’s younger son Arafat ...