Bangladesh

The government plans to create a blue network using the canals in Dhaka that are still possible to be recovered. Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser of Ministry of Water Resources and the Ministry of environment, forest and climate change, told this while speaking at a workshop as a chief guest at the Forest Department in the capital on Saturday. The Centre ...

A total of 633 traffic cases were filed and around Tk 23 lakh in fine were imposed for violating traffic rules in Dhaka metropolitan area on Friday. Jahangir Kabir, assistant commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), in a media release on Saturday said the traffic division of DMP conducted the drives against breaching the traffic rules. Besides, 161 vehicles ...

Wrapping up very engaging stay and series of meetings with global leaders, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus left for Dhaka on Friday night. Prof Yunus and his delegation members left JFK International Airport at 9:30pm (NY time) and are scheduled to reach Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 2:15am (Dhaka time) on Sunday. The Chief Adviser attended around 40 big events ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Friday urged the international community to continue and deepen engagements with Bangladesh to help meet its people’s quest for democracy, rule of law, equality and prosperity so that it can emerge as a just and inclusive democratic society. “I call upon the international community to engage with ‘new Bangladesh’ anew that aims to realise ...

Shafiqur Rahman, Ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, has condemned Awami League, accusing it of commiting genocide asserting that such actions disqualify any party from participating in national politics. He made this statement while addressing a gathering at the Rukon Conference organised by Khulna Metropolitan Jamaat at the Al Faruq Society in Sonadanga on Friday. “Those who commit genocide have no right ...

After the removal of elected mayors from all city corporations and municipalities of the country following the fall of the Awami League government, the councillors have also been removed. The general councillors and councillors in the reserved seats of women of 12 city corporations and 323 municipalities across the country have been removed. Removing the general councillors and councillors in ...

Mahmudur Rahman, the Daily Amar Desh editor, and a victim of torture and repression during Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government, returned to the country on Friday morning after staying over five and a half years in exile. He arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport from Turkey on a flight at 9:30am. Leaders from the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists, Dhaka ...

United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday expressed his “total solidarity” with Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus and the interim government, saying the UN stands ready to support reforms in Bangladesh. The UN secretary general expressed his support when he met the chief adviser at the UN headquarters in New York on Thursday (local time). “The country team ...

US Secretary of State Antony J Blinken has indicated US support for free and fair elections, which will chart an inclusive, democratic, and equitable future for all Bangladeshis. He also underscored US support and assistance for the interim government as it guides the country towards economic stability and highlighted the importance of reforms to ensure continued foreign direct investment. US ...

Information Adviser Nahid Islam has vowed that justice will be served in the murder of Lieutenant Tanzim Sarwar. He said this to the media on Thursday after meeting with the family members of the slain lieutenant at the Army Multipurpose Complex in Dhaka Cantonment. The adviser said that the tragic and untimely death of Tanzim due to a criminal attack ...