Bangladesh

Government’s knees have started trembling after the United States impose sanctions on it, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said. He was speaking as the chief guest at a rally of Chattogram Division BNP at Kazir Dewri in the port city on Wednesday (June 14, 2023). Mirza Fakhrul said: “They (Awami League government) claim that they are not ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin visited Bangabhaban Toshakhana Museum at Bangabhaban in the capital on Wednesday noon. The Head of the State witnessed a video of the renovated installations of the historic Toshakhana Museum as well as the Bangabhaban, the Presidential palace. Bangabhaban was once called ‘Manuk House’. After that it was regarded as ‘Governor House’. A unique combination of Victorian architecture ...

Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin and Danish Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy Dan Jørgensen jointly launched Bangladesh-Denmark Joint Action Plan on the Sustainable and Green Framework Engagement in the meeting room of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in Bangladesh Secretariat on Tuesday. Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the ...

Danish Minister for Development and Global Climate Dan Jørgensen arrived in Dhaka on Tuesday. Additional Foreign Secretary Asad Alam Siam received him at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. The visit will focus on engaging in climate change agenda and enhancing partnership between Bangladesh and Denmark in the area of green growth and decent work, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sent fresh seasonal mangoes as gifts to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. This year the prime minister has sent 1,200 kilograms of ‘Haribhanga’ variety of mangoes in 240 cartons. The mangoes were sent on Monday which were handed over to the Indian officials concerned atb ‘No Man’s Land’ on Benapole-Petrapole Ports Import-Export gate at ...

Demanding due salaries and bonus, the employees of a garment factory in Narayanganj’s Rupganj took to the street on Tuesday morning and, later, blocked Dhaka-Sylhet highway The angry workers of a readymade garment factory of Robintex Ltd came to their workplace in Aukhab area at 8am and started demonstration inside the factory as the authorities failed to pay their two ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka on Tuesday for Geneva, Switzerland to attend the “World of Work Summit: Social Justice for All” to be held in the Swiss city on June 14-15. A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and her entourages took off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 10.01am, reports BSS. Liberation War Affairs Minister ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was admitted to Evercare Hospital in the capital in the wee hours as per her physicians’ advise as she was feeling unwell. “Suddenly madam felt sick on Monday night. Later, her personal physician Prof AZM Zahid Hossain visited her at her Gulshan residence. Upon consultation with the medical board, she was taken to the hospital around ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the upcoming national poll will be challenging, urging the leaders and activists of Awami League to make the party stronger and well-organised at the grassroots so that it could remain in power to keep running the continuity of development. “My only strength is the party. Without organisational strength, no great achievement is possible. So, ...

Islami Andolon Bangladesh has decided to boycott the upcoming city elections in Sylhet and Rajshahi. Besides, the party also rejected the results of Barishal and Khulna City Corporation elections held on Monday. Islami Andolon Bangladesh ameer Mufti Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim said these at a press conference held in Chandmari area of Barishal city. Terming the elections in two cities ...