Bangladesh

Two visiting US Congressmen Ed Case and Richard McCormick on Sunday visited Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi 32 in Dhaka. They paid tribute to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing a wreath at his portrait, reports UNB. Officials briefed them and gave them a tour of the museum. The congressmen are scheduled to meet with government ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged the country’s alem-uleama to cooperate with her government to eradicate religious superstitions, terrorism and militancy so no one can misguide the children by wrong interpretation of Islam. “I want your cooperation in eradicating religious, superstition, terrorism and militancy. We especially request you to keep watch so our children don’t follow the wrong path,” ...

Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus has filed an appeal with a Chamber Judge challenging the High Court order that earlier rejected his petition against charge frame in a case filed over labour law violation. Barrister Abdullah Al Mamun filed the application on Sunday morning on behalf of Dr Yunus. The HC on August 8 rejected the petition filed challenging the ...

Members of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have arrested 12 persons, including seven doctors, for their involvement in medical admission question papers leakage. They have been arrested from different parts of the country since July 30. The gang is involved in the medical college admission questions leak from 2001 to 2017. in this period, the gang members leaked the question 10 ...

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said there is no global power behind the BNP-Jamaat nexus as no foreign countries take side with looters. “They claimed they have (global power). Which power is with them? We want to know. There is no (such global) power with them. No one sides with looters,” she said. Sheikh Hasina ...

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said none of the demands of BNP including restoration of caretaker government system, dissolution of parliament and Sheikh Hasina’s resignation will not be accepted. So, there is no scope to fulfill any of those demands. “The next general elections will be held as per the constitution. If you (BNP) like, you can take ...

Foreigners are being harshly criticised now-a-days. The government says that the foreigners are making remarks on ‘democracy and vote’ with a bad intention. Such remarks are meaningless. The foreigners are talking about the sufferings and pain of people in Bangladesh. They want something good will happen in Bangladesh, said Jatiya Party chairman and leader of the Opposition in parliament GM ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said none believes the Awami League’s propaganda that BNP is an anti-Hindu political party. “Awami League are marketing it in our neighbouring country India, where the majority population is Hindu. They carry out false propaganda that BNP is an anti-Hindu organisation in Bangladesh,” he said, reports UNB. Speaking at the Representatives ...

Two US Congressmen — Richard McCormick of Georgia from the Republican Party and Ed Case of Hawaii from the Democratic Party arrived in Dhaka on Saturday (today) on a four-day official visit to Bangladesh. A number of US officials also accompanied them. “They have come mainly to visit the Rohingya camps and a courtesy meeting with me,” Foreign Minister AK ...

The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations under the Chittagong, Madrasa and Technical Education Boards have been deferred by 10 days due to water-logging for torrential rains and floods. Now the examinations of those boards will begin on August 27, instead of August 17. The decision was taken taking the unprecedented flooding and water-logging in the Chittagong division, said ...