Bangladesh

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said Bangladesh has taken a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a “breathing space” while the global lender assured of continuing to provide such support in future. “We have taken the loan from the IMF as breathing space,” quoting the Prime Minister as saying Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen told a ...

The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations for 2023 began on Sunday across the country. The exams began at 10am and it will end at 1pm. On the first days, Bangla 1st Paper examination is being held under nine education boards, while Quran Majid and Tajvid under the Madrasa Education Board and Bangla-2 under the Technical Education Board. Education ...

Law Minister Anisul Huq has said the next general election in Bangladesh will be held in constitutional way. “There will be no neutral or caretaker government. The Election Commission will conduct the election. Inshallah, there will be a free and fair election,” he said while speaking at a workers’ meeting organised by Akhaura Upazila Awami League at Akhaura Upazila Parishad ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been admitted to Evercare Hospital at Basundhara in the capital on Saturday evening for medical check-up. The BNP Chairperson left her ‘Firoza’ residence at Gulshan at 5:30pm and reached Evercare Hospital at 6:30pm. At that time, her younger son Arafat Rahman Koko’s wife Sharmila Rahman accompanied her to the hospital. She was admitted to the ...

Dismissing all speculations about the party’s subtle strategy to take part in city polls, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday categorically said their party is not joining the upcoming elections to five city corporations in any way. “We have made it very clear that we are not going for any kind of local government elections. Especially in ...

Bangladesh has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthen bilateral relations with Mexico, and looks forward to exploring new avenues for cooperation and collaboration. The Embassy of Bangladesh in Mexico City hosted a grand reception at the chancery to celebrate the 52nd anniversary of independence and National Day of Bangladesh. The event, originally scheduled for March 26, 2023, was held on April ...

The government has taken measures to bring back Bangladeshi citizens stranded in Sudan, through Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Seheli Sabrin said that at first the Bangladeshi nationals will be taken to Port Sudan from Khartoum, and from there they will be taken to Jeddah. Later, they will be brought to Bangladesh by several flights of ...

Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations will begin across the country on Sunday (April 30) where 20,72,163 candidates are expected to take part. Equipment for the examinations has already been reached at all the centres. The examinees will start their exam with Bangla first paper. The examinations will be held at 10am everyday. The candidates will have to be ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday arrived in Washington DC to attend the ceremony marking the 50-year partnership between Bangladesh and the World Bank here on May 1. A United Airlines flight carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage members landed at the Dulles International Airport in Washington DC at around 3.35pm Washington time (1.35am on Saturday Bangladesh Time). Ambassador ...

A new gas well, named Ilisha-1, has been discovered in Bhola, capable of extracting 20 to 22 million cubic feet of gas daily. BAPEX, the Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited, has successfully extracted gas experimentally from the well, bringing the total number of wells discovered in the district to nine. If everything goes well, gas extraction will officially ...