Bangladesh

The written examination of the 45th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) will begin from November 27. The test will take place in eight divisions at a time, the Bangladesh Public Service Commission (PSC) said in a press release on Thursday. The exam hall, seat plan and related important instructions will be published in time on the PSC, and Teletalk websites. Earlier, ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has signed the Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) to protect the world’s oceans and reverse from the damage done to fragile marine environment by overfishing and other human activities. The agreement was signed on Wednesday under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea at the Ground Floor, General assembly Building, ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday alleged that Climate Vulnerable Forum’s repeated calls for an equal distribution of climate finance between adaptation and mitigation have received little response. “The Adaptation Fund needs to live up to expectations,” she said while speaking at a High-Level Thematic Session of Climate Ambition Summit “Delivering Climate Justice: Accelerating Ambition and Implementation on Adaptation and ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (Wednesday) called for developing an international cooperation framework as part of the prevention of pandemics, placing five proposals to be addressed by the global community. “The COVID-19 pandemic has been a turning point for us all. We lost many around the world. We realized that nature has its own limits for human intervention. We also ...

The United States has conveyed to Bangladesh that working with trading partners to support workers’ rights, including freedom of association and collective bargaining, is a top priority for the Biden-Harris Administration. The United States emphasized the importance of combatting violence against workers and union organizers, as well as anti-union discrimination and other unfair labour practices, reports UNB. Bangladesh and the ...

Bangla Mirror Desk:   The Mayor of Salisbury, Cllr Atiqul Hoque, represented our modern medieval City at the Commonwealth Trade and Investment Forum on the 13-14 September 2023 in Dhaka, Bangladesh; a country which has a unique connection to Salisbury. The invitation came from the Chairman of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council (CWEIC), Lord Marland of Odstock. The prestigious ...

Additional Inspector General of police (IGP) Habibur Rahman has been made new Police Commissioner of Dhaka. Habibur Rahman is currently the chief of Tourist Police. He will replace outgoing Commissioner Khandaker Golam Faruq, according to a notification issued by the home ministry in this regard on Wednesday. Khandker Faruq is going to retire on October 2 and Habibur Rahman will ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday was accorded special honour by the Brown University as the United Nations recognised her brainchild community clinic model to reach healthcare services to the Bangladesh people’s doorsteps. Dr. Mukesh K. Jain, Senior Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences of The Warren Alpert Medical School of the Brown University ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said the world financial system needs fundamental shift to address the ongoing financial crisis across the globe. She put forward five points in reshaping the financial system while speaking at the High-level Roundtable titled “Towards a Fair International Financial Architecture” held at UN Headquarters in New York. The points are: First, MDBs, IFIs, and ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said community based primary health care is the key to achieving universal health coverage, calling upon the global development partners to support the efforts in the developing nations to reach healthcare services to all. “We call upon our development partners, including multilateral financing institutions, to extend their support for the cause of community-centric health ...