Bangladesh

Irish Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Simon Coveney is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on Sunday on an official visit aimed at boosting bilateral trade and investment. He is conducting a seven-day official visit to India and Bangladesh as part of his government’s St Patrick’s Day programme. During the Bangladesh leg of the visit Minister Coveney will officially open ...

The nation is set to celebrate the 104th birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman coinciding with the National Children’s Day-2024 on Sunday in a befitting manner. On this day in 1920, Bangabandhu, the vivacious leader of the Bangalee nation, the architect of independent Bangladesh and the greatest Bangalee of all times, was born in a ...

Jhenidah-1 constituency MP and president of the district Awami League Abdul Hyee has passed away at the age of 71. He breathed his last around 4am (local time) on Saturday at the Bumrungrad Hospital in Thailand where he had been on life support for last some days. His personal assistant Shahidul Islam confirmed his death news from Thailand. Abdul Hyee left behind ...

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday alleged that the Awami League has let loose Chatra League to attack on Muslim devotees’ iftar arrangements. After failing to control the soaring prices of daily commodities, AL has let loose Chatra League to attack on Muslim devotees’ iftar arrangements, he said. When AL comes to state power, it undermines ...

Some 50,000 metric tonnes (MTs) of onion imported from India will enter Bangladesh next week, State Minister for Commerce Ahsanul Islam Titu has said. “The first truckload of onions will arrive from India next week. A total of 50,000 MTs of onion will enter the country gradually,” he said while speaking as the chief guest at a programme marking the ...

Ten noted individuals have been nominated for the highest civilian award Swadhinata Padak, also known as the Independence Award, this year for their outstanding contributions to the country. The Cabinet Division declared the names of the award recipients in a notification on Friday. Three people are getting the award in the ‘Independence and Liberation War’ category. They are– Kazi Abdur ...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, who is also the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, will pay an official visit to Bangladesh later this year. This would be a landmark event in the history of bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia leading to the consolidation of ties, especially in trade and commerce, investment ...

The United States Senator Richard Joseph Durbin has warned the Bangladesh ambassador to the United States that a failure to end the vendetta against Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus would negatively impact the bilateral partnership. In a post on his verified X early Thursday (Bangladesh time), he wrote that the US valued its relationship with Bangladesh and appreciated its help ...

The UK is providing an additional £5.2 million (Tk 73.2 crore) of humanitarian support to forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals in Bangladesh. The British High Commission in Dhaka on Thursday said the UK announced this at the launch of the 2024 humanitarian appeal for the Rohingya response in Bangladesh, the Joint Response Plan, in Geneva on Wednesday. Implemented by the World ...

A court in Dhak granted bail to BNP Executive Committee Member and Dhaka BNP General Secretary Nipun Roy Chowdhury in 7 cases on Thursday after she surrendered and applied for bail in the court. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Mohammad Assam Joglul Hossain granted bail to Nipun Roy on Thursday. On January 22, The High Court granted anticipatory bail to BNP ...