Bangladesh

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today said the threat of Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and other BNP leaders to topple the government has become a joke to the people. “BNP started hatching conspiracy to oust our government just one month after its formation in 2009. They made repeated attempts to topple the government but they couldn’t do it, ...

Another mastermind involved in robbing Dutch-Bangla Bank money has been arrested from Savar. At the same time, Tk 87.50 lakh more were recovered from his possession. Mastermind Sohel Rana was arrested from Savar by the Mirpur Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Branch. DB said with the latest recovery, a total of Tk 8.10 crore have been recovered. Besides, a ...

Leaders and activists of the main opposition BNP thronged the party’s Nayapaltan central office to take part in their protest rally, which started on Saturday afternoon. The party is holding the rallies in cities across all divisions on Saturday to press home their 10-point demand, including holding the next general election under a non-party caretaker government. Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday urged the children to grow as smart citizens following the ideals of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. “The Father of the Nation Bangabandu sheikh Mujib is no longer with us, but he left his ideals for us to follow,” she told a National Children’s Day programme in Gopalganj. The premier said the country’s children must ...

Ambassador Muhammad Abdul Muhith, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations in New York, has presented his credentials to Michael W. Lodge, the Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority, as the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the International Seabed Authority. The presentation ceremony took place at the Secretariat of the International Seabed Authority in Kingston, Jamaica on Thursday (March ...

Bangladesh will start importing diesel through pipeline from India on Saturday (March 18, 2023). Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi will inaugurate India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline through video-conferencing at 5:30pm on that day. Around 10,000 tonnes of diesel is set to come through the pipeline on the first day on Saturday, said sources at the Bangladesh ...

  Mirror Desk:   “The world must not forget that it was Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s extraordinary courage, compassion and humanitarian decision to open up border and heart to more than 7,50,000 Rohingyas in 2017 that saved the world from witnessing a human catastrophe,” said State Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh, Md Shahriar Alam MP while addressing the ...

President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman here on his 103rd birth anniversary and the National Children’s Day-2023. The President and the Prime Minister in person paid their homage by placing wreaths at the mausoleum of Bangabandhu at Tungipara in Gopalganj at about 10:30 ...

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen who is leading the Bangladesh delegation to the 49th OIC Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) taking place in Nouakchott, Mauritania from 16-17 March reiterated his country’s continued engagements with the OIC which has always been guided by the principles of peace, prosperity, and development. This year, the CFM is being held with the theme “Moderation: ...

Bangladesh has been elected as a member of the OIC Islamic Human Rights Council. Other members from Asia are Turkey and Iran. Bangladesh has also been elected as the vice-president of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the world’s largest body of Muslim-majority nations. Other vice-presidents are Palestine and Nigeria. Mauritania, the host country, got elected as president of the ...