Bangladesh

A Dhaka court on Thursday sentenced five people, including senior journalist Shafik Rehman and former acting editor of Daily Amar Desh Mahmudur Rahman, to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment in a case filed in connection with a plot to abduct and murder of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy in the United States in 2015. The court of Additional ...

The government has given directives to all Bangladesh Missions abroad to take appropriate steps to counter propaganda against Bangladesh and the government ahead of the next national election. “A committee comprising three ministries – Information, Law, and Foreign Affairs – is working on it,” foreign ministry’s spokesperson Seheli Sabrin told reporters at a weekly briefing at the Foreign Ministry on ...

BNP will not take part in any ‘unilateral election’ under the current Awami League government in Bangladesh, and also doesn’t allow it to hold the polls, said party’s Senior Joint Secretary General Rahul Kabir Rizvi on Thursday. He made the remarks while visiting the house of Fatullah Thana BNP president Shahidul Islam Titu who had lost his eyesight in police ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday inaugurated the much-talked-about Universal Pension Scheme to bring all the people of the country aged above 18 under the scheme. She initially opened the pension scheme – Pragati, Surokkha, Samata and Prabashi— joining the inaugural programme virtually from her official Ganabhaban residence in the morning, BSS reports. After launching the scheme, the premier said, ...

Education Minister Dipu Moni has said the results of this year’s HSC examinations will be published together, though Chittagong, Madrasa and Technical Education Boards will start 10 days later. “HSC exams were scheduled to begin across the country on August 17. But due to natural disaster, the three boards’ exams will begin from August 28. But the results of all ...

This year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations under eight boards began on Thursday (August 17) across the country. Students sat for Bangla first paper exam on the first day, from 10 am. A total of 13,59, 342 students – 6,88, 887 boys and 6,70,455 girls – are expected to sit for this year’s HSC exams, 1,55,935 more ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday alleged that the secret motive of some of the foreign countries is to use the Bay of Bengal as they are showing interest in the next election. “They want to create an unstable situation in the country on different excuses, including election, democracy and different other names, so that they can use the Indian ...

  International Relations Affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Professor Dr. Gowher Rizvi while speaking as the chief guest at Bangladesh High Commission, London’s commemorative event on the 48 th martyrdom anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the National Mourning Day 2023, said, “Bangabandhu's assassination on August 15, 1975, was aimed to thwart ...

Police have filed two cases accusing more than 5,000 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its associate organisations over the clashes with police and vandalising vehicles in the capital after the death of convicted war criminal Delwar Hossain Sayedee. Officer-in-charge of Shahbagh police station Nur Mohammad said sub-inspectors Jabbar and Salah Uddin Kader filed the two cases with Shahbagh and ...

China will not interfere in Bangladesh’s election issue, said its Ambassador Yao Wen on Wednesday. “It is Bangladesh’s internal issue and China will not interfere internal issues of any country.” The Ambassador made this comment to media after a meeting with planing minister at the ministry in the capital’s She-e-Bangla Nagar. Besides, he also informed about China’s interest in investing ...