Bangladesh

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has alleged that after failing in all its movements, BNP now wants to play ill-game by making Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus an issue. “Parliamentary elections are approaching. Evil forces are active ahead of the polls. Last time, they (BNP and its allies) joined hands with Dr Kamal Hossain to carry out rampage. This ...

The United Nations’ Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated $8 million to provide support to almost a million Rohingya refugees staying in camps in Cox’s Bazar district and on the island of Bhasan Char. The funding allocation to Bangladesh is part of a CERF initiative to support underfunded humanitarian operations in 14 countries in Africa, Asia, the Americas and ...

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayor Md Atiqul Islam and Dhaka South Citry Corporation (DSCC) mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh should resign shouldering responsibilities of their failures to control dengue mosquitoes in the capital, said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday.. He made the remarks after inaugurating blood doination programmes at two hospitals in the capital on ...

At least 426 people were killed and 793 other injured in 441 road crashes across the country in last month. Of these, 171 motorcycle accidents claimed 168 lives and 149 injuries. Of the total accidents, 38.77 per cent were motorcycle accidents, 39.43 percent of total fatalities and 18.78 percent of injuries respectively. Dhaka Division had the highest number of road ...

The Bangladesh Railway is going to start trial run of a special train on Mawa-Bhanga section crossing through the Padma Bridge on Thursday morning. The train will start its journey from Kamalapur Railway Station at 8:45am and will reach Bhanga at 11.54am, senior information officer of the Railways Ministry Siraj ud Doula Khan told BSS. Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan, ...

The Hindu community is celebrating Janmashtami, marking the birth of Lord Krishna, on Wednesday with due religious fervour. According to Hindu religion, Lord Vishnu incarnated in the universe as Lord Krishna in the prison of Raja Kangsa on this day, the eighth of “Shukla Pakkha” in the month of Bhadra in Dwapara Yuga in order to protect “Dharma” from the ...

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved a Taka 12,951.51 crore for a total of 17 projects. The approval came from a meeting of the ECNEC with its chairperson and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair held at the NEC Conference Room in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area on Tuesday, BSS reports. Briefing reporters ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has called upon all the opposition political parties to take to the street to press home one point demand. He made the call while speaking at a discussion organised on the occasion of Ganasanghati Andolon’s founding anniversary in the capital on Tuesday afternoon. The BNP Secretary General said, “No matter whether you are ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has expressed profound concern over “continued intimidation and harassment” of human rights advocates and civil society leaders through legal proceedings in Bangladesh, including Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus. He has also called on the Bangladeshi authorities to create a safe and enabling environment for human rights defenders and other civil society representatives to ...

Bangladesh and the USA in the 9th Security Dialogue in Dhaka on Tuesday agreed to strengthen cooperation in both civil and military security domains. The dialogue covered various traditional and non-tradition security issues of mutual interests, including Indo-Pacific outlook of Bangladesh and the Indo-Pacific Strategy of the USA, said a release of Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA). The discussed issues ...