Bangladesh

In an open letter on August 28 last, several Nobel laureates, politicians, businessmen and civil society members requested Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to halt the ongoing case against Dr Muhammad Yunus which was filed under the labour law of the country. “We strongly protest such an undesirable interference on the freedom of judiciary of a sovereign nation,” said 50 ...

BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury has said announcing the election schedule doesn’t mean that the election will be held so easily. He was speaking at a discussion at the Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) on Saturday (September 2). Ganatantra Forum organised the discussion styled, “Justice, Democracy and Human Rights in Present Context”. Responding to an Election Commissioner’s remarks ...

The upcoming national elections will be held in the first week of January next week, said Election Commissioner Md Anisur Rahman on Saturday. “The parliamentary polls will be held in the first week of January 2024. But yet to fix the date of the elections.” He said this at the opening day of the trainers’ training program at Agargaon election ...

Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said she has returned power to people which was confined to cantonment. “No progress of the country takes place if power goes to uneducated and illiterate people. We developed the country from 1996 to 2001. But, Khaleda Zia destroyed all those things after going to power,” she said while speaking as ...

Alicia Kearns, the first woman chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the UK Parliament, praised Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for providing shelter to millions of Rohingya refugees who were persecuted in Myanmar. She also emphasised on increasing international pressure to repatriate Rohingyas to Myanmar. Alicia Kearns was holding a meeting with Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) standing committee member Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan has said Awami League does not believe in democracy though it talks about it. They (Awami League) wants to lengthen its power resorting to jail, oppression, arrest, cases, torture, enforced disappearances and murders. But, people of the country will not let that happen again, he said. Moyeen Khan said ...

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Friday (September 1) held a meeting with a high-powered business delegation from the United States at the State Guest House Padma in Dhaka. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed the matter on Friday. According to sources, both sides discussed issues related to the long-term trade benefits between the two countries. The members present at ...

The Bangladesh government must remove draconian provisions from the draft Cyber Security Act (CSA) which is to replace the Digital Security Act (DSA), said Amnesty International on Friday. “The Cabinet must not push through the CSA as it is largely a replication of the draconian DSA that preceded it and retains repressive features which have been used to threaten and ...

Sri Lanka has paid back $100 million in second installment of loan taken from Bangladesh two years ago. Bangladesh lent $200 million from its foreign exchange reserves to Sri Lanka during its economic crisis in September 2021. The island nation paid back $50 million in the first installment of the loan repayment last month. Bangladesh Bank Spokesperson and Executive Director ...

Indian High Commissioner Pranay Verma on Thursday said New Delhi believed that Bangladesh’s developmental experience and growing capabilities stood to add value to discussions at G-20. He made remark while speaking an discussion titled “G20 Summit : Dhaka to New Delhi” organised by the Bangladesh foreign ministry at Foreign Service Academy in the capital to mark Dhaka’s participation at the ...