Bangladesh

A total of 152 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been deployed across the country to maintain law and order as the latest 48-hour countrywide blockade called by the BNP, Jamaat and like-minded opposition parties is underway. Shariful Islam, public relations officer (PRO) at BGB headquarters, confirmed the development on Sunday morning. Today, on the first day of the ...

Police said that blockade supporters torched the buses in Arambagh, Gabtali, Gulistan, and Jatrabari areas of the capital. According to the fire service, a passenger bus of Lal Sabuj Paribahan was set on fire in front of Notre Dame College at 8:20 pm. Upon receiving information, two units of firefighters from Siddique Bazar Fire Station promptly brought the fire under ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said BNP and its allies only know how to destroy the good things her government creates. “They (BNP and its allies) only know how to destroy, not to create. We create and they destroy,” she said. The prime minister said this while inaugurating the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar rail communication. Recalling the horrible days when BNP-Jamaat ...

Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan has said that a train can be run commercially from Dhaka to Cox’s Bazar and Cox’s Bazar to Dhaka from December. He made the remark while speaking at the inauguration of Chattogram’s Dohazari to Cox’s Bazar Rail Line project at Cox’s Bazar Railway Station on Saturday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the much-awaited 102km ...

Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader Azad Hossain who was allegedly involved in putting seals on ‘Boat’ symbols of 43 ballot papers in 57 seconds during the voting in Lakshmipur-3 (Sadar) by-election has been sent to jail. Chandraganj police produced him before a court after arresting him under Section 54 early Saturday afternoon. Later, the court passed an order sending him ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday inaugurated 15 completed development projects, including Matarbari Ultra Super Critical Coal-Fired Power Project (2×600), and laid foundation stones of three other projects involving Tk 53467 crore. Prior to addressing a grand public meeting at Matarbari in Moheshkhali, she unveiled the inaugural plaque of the development projects around 3:45 in the afternoon, reports BSS. Earlier ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday inaugurated the much awaited 102km Chattogram’s Dohazari-Cox’s Bazar Rail Line at a cost of Taka 18034.47 crore opening a new era in railway connectivity in the country. “Today, the Cox’s Bazar is linked with the railway connectivity. This is the day of feeling proud,” she said while opening the rail line along with the ...

Professor Dr Md Imdadul Haque, vice-chancellor of Jagannath University (JnU), passed away at a hospital in the capital early Saturday. He breathed his last at 5am at BRB Hospital, said the university’s Bangla Department Chairman Prof Dr Milton Bishwas. Imdadul Haque was a cancer patient. He went to Singapore on September 12 for better treatment and came back home on ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the common people are the victims of the arson violence that has started again in the name of movement. “I don’t know who gets how much benefit from it. But some people, particularly the common people, are being victims,” she said while receiving donations from different financial institutes for her relief fund at her ...

Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra said that as far as Bangladesh is concerned, India has shared its “perspective very clearly” at the India-US 2+2 ministerial dialogue held in New Delhi on Friday (November 10), reports BSS. “We did discuss very extensively regional issues, and so far Bangladesh is concerned, we shared our perspective very clearly in the dialogue,” he ...