Bangladesh

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said a joint operation will be conducted very soon to seize arms and drugs and to prevent terrorist activities in the Rohingya camps. If necessary, the army will also be involved in this operation, he said. The minister made the remarks while talking to reporters after attending a meeting of the National committee for coordinating, ...

The government has extended the tenure of service of the incumbent director general (DG) of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) M Khurshid Hossain by one year. The tenure of his service is going to end on June 5 next. Public Administration Ministry issued a circular on Tuesday appointing him on contractual basis. According to the circular, Khurshid has been appointed ...

The UK is providing an additional £2.3 million (over 300 million Taka) in humanitarian support for the Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh. This new UK support will provide Rohingya communities with health care, shelter, and basic site management support. It will also strengthen safeguarding systems for Rohingya refugees and host communities in Cox’s Bazar. Acting British High Commissioner ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has arrived in Doha on Monday on a three-day official visit to attend the Qatar Economic Forum (QEF) 2023 to be held on May 23-25. A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the Premier and her entourage members, landed at Hamad International Airport at 5:32 pm local time. High level representatives of Qatar Government and Ambassador ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday alleged that the ruling Awami League is trying to unleash violence in a planned way to suppress the ongoing anti-government movement. “The ministers and the ruling party leaders have been saying one thing repeatedly for a few days that there will be arson violence and BNP will play with fire again. ...

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in separate drives arrested six members of a gang for their alleged involvement in stealing over Tk 1 crore by hacking BRTA’s technical support company’s server. The arrestees were — Md Shahriar Islam, 26, Md Azim Hossain, 27, Md Shimul Bhuiyan, 32, Rubel Mahmud, 33, Faisal Ahammed, 23, Anisur Rahman, 23. RAB Legal and Media Wing ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka on Monday afternoon for Doha on a three-day official visit to attend the Qatar Economic Forum (QEF) 2023 to be held on May 23-25. A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the premier and her entourage members, took off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 3.13pm, Prime Minister Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told BSS. ...

A Dhaka court has fixed June 22 for submission of the probe report in a case filed over the killing of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi in February 2012. With this, the deadline for submission of probe report in the case deferred for the 98th time. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Rashidul Alam passed the order on Monday as ...

The High Court on Monday wanted to know whether Rajshahi BNP leader Abu Sayeed Chand, who earlier thretened to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was arrested. At the same time, the court also asked about the latest steps of the police over the issue. An HC bench of Justice Md Kamrul Hossain Mollah and Justice Md Riaz Uddin Khan asked ...

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said if BNP wants to halt the upcoming general elections, it will be resisted unitedly. “If BNP wants to halt the elections without joining it, the party will be resisted with the help of people. The ruling party will no longer respond to BNP by holding ...