Bangladesh

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen would hold a bilateral talk with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Dhaka on September 7. “We have many bilateral issues to discuss. We have the Rohingya issue too,” he told reporters at the Foreign Service Academy, reports BSS. The Russian Foreign Minister will arrive here on September 7 and after visiting Bangladesh will ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said some major powers of the world want to establish a loyal government in Bangladesh because of the importance of its geographical location. “Actually, due to the geographical location of Bangladesh, some big countries want that there will be a government in Bangladesh which will just lick their feet,” she said, reports UNB. The ...

British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke has said they are investing up to £54.5 million in the country over eight years to improve education outcomes for children, with a particular focus on girls. “Ensuring 12 years of quality education for all children is at the centre of the UK’s drive to tackle poverty, promote gender equality, boost economic growth ...

More than 600 people have become the victims of enforced disappearances in about one and a half decades in Bangladesh, alleged BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. He made the allegation in a statement sent to the mass media on Tuesday night. Mirza Fakhrul Islam said it has become a regular incident for the law enforcing agencies reared by ...

French President Emmanuel Macron is likely to visit Bangladesh after attending the G20 Leaders Summit in New Delhi in September, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said in Dhaka on Wednesday. “The President of France has been invited to visit Bangladesh and if he comes, Bangladesh will welcome him,” he told reporters after attending a discussion at the Foreign Service ...

  British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Sarah Cooke, welcomed the next cohort of Chevening Scholars to her residence in Dhaka on Wednesday 30 August. Twenty-one young professionals have received awards for the coming academic year and will soon be leaving Bangladesh to begin one-year master’s degrees at some of the UK’s most prestigious universities. Presenting the awards, British High Commissioner ...

Arshad Adnan Rony, only son of running President Mohammed Shahabuddin, has announced his candidacy for Pabna-5 (Sadar) constituency in the upcoming national elections. Rony, a prominent cultural figure and central Awami League leader, disclosed this while interacting with the journalists at his residence adjacent to President Sahabuddin in the city on Tuesday (August 29) night. ‘I’m aspiring to become a ...

Abdul Quddus, lawmaker from Natore-4 constituency and the district Awami League president, passed away on Wednesday morning while undergoing treatment at a hospital in the capital. He was 77 years old. Quddus, also a freedom fighter, breathed his last around 7:20am at United Hospital, said Shariful Islam Ramjan, general secretary of Natore AL. He is survived by his wife, a ...

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved a Taka 3,751.09 crore project to establish 50 technical training centers (TTC) at upazila level in the country to improve the skills of the aspiring youths, willing to go abroad, imparting through necessary training. The approval came from a meeting of the ECNEC held with its chairperson and ...

Gonoforum president Dr Kamal Hossain has expressed doubts that the next parliamentary election will be free, fair and impartial. “We are afraid that the upcoming national election will not be fair and neutral. People must become united so that election is held under a fair, fair and impartial manner,” he said. In this regarad, he also called upon the government ...