Bangladesh

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday declared another 12 districts and 123 upazilas free of homeless and landless people as 22,101 more families were provided with abodes under Ashrayan-2 project. She made the announcement and opened the distribution of the semi-pucca houses to the homeless and landless families through a videoconference from her official residence Ganabhaban, reports UNB. With the ...

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister and Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader left for Singapore on Wednesday morning for a routine health check-up. According to the minister’s office, Quader left Dhaka on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight around 8.45 am. He was greeted at the airport by officilas of the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB). Barrister Biplab Barua, Nizam ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday handed over Bangamata Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib Padak-2023 to four distinguished women and the national women’s football team for their outstanding contributions to their respective fields. The four women who were conferred with the award are Advocate Sahara Khatun (posthumous) in politics, Anima Mukti Gomes in education, Nasima Jaman Bobi in culture and sports, and ...

The third terminal at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport will be partially inaugurated on October 7. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurated the opening of a part of the terminal. Air Vice Marshal M Mafidur Rahman, chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh, disclosed it at a press briefing on Tuesday. “Though it was partially opened on October 7, passengers ...

BNP on Tuesday demanded complete repeal of the Digital Security Act (DSA) instead of its transformation. Speaking at a press conference, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir also said the government’s move to replace the DSA with the Cyber Security Act is tantamount to cheating people. He also termed the Digital Security Act (DSA) the worst black law for ...

Visiting Bangladesh Awami League delegation on Tuesday held a meeting with Leader of Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of the Indian Parliament, Piyush Goyal at the latter’s parliament office in New Delhi, BSS reports. During the meeting, they discussed different socio, political and developmental issues alongside with trade and business between the two countries, according to meeting sources. In the ...

The 93rd birth anniversary of Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, wife of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is being observed on Tuesday in a befitting manner across the country. Bangamata, also known by her nick name Renu, was born on August 8 in 1930 at Tungipara village in Gopalganj. She was a paternal cousin of her husband Sheikh ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hand over 22,101 more houses under Ashrayan -2 project to landless and homeless families on Wednesday as 12 more districts are set to be declared homeless and landless-free. “With the 12 districts and 123 upazilas, a total of 21 districts and 334 upazilas throughout the country are becoming as homeless and landless family-free ones on ...

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said that both Bangladesh and India have made remarkable growth in trade and investment in recent years. Momen received a business delegation from Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) from India on Monday (Aug 7) the afternoon at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dhaka. During the interaction with the delegation, Momen expressed his satisfaction over ...

Four distinguished women and the Bangladesh women’s national football team will be awarded with the ‘Bangamata Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib Padak-2023’ for their outstanding contributions in their respective sectors. Ministry of Women and Children Affairs has finalized the names. The award recipients are -Advocate Sahara Khatun (Posthumous award) in politics, Anima Mukti Gomes in education, Nasima Jaman Bobi in Culture and ...