Bangladesh

The first hajj flight with 415 pilgrims left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for Saudi Arabia at around 3.20am on Sunday (May 21). State Ministers for Civil Aviation and Tourism Mahbub Ali, Religious Affairs Md Faridul Haq Khan, Saudi Ambassador to Bangladesh Isa bin Yusuf Al Duhailan, Secretary of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism Mokammel Hossain, among others, were ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made a courtesy call on President Mohammed Shahabuddin at Bangabhaban in the capital on Saturday (May 20) evening. The Prime Minister informed the President about her recent tri-nation visit and discussed various issues relating to the affairs of the state. The Prime Minister visited Japan, UK and USA from April 25 to May 9 and took ...

No future elections will be allowed to take place in Bangladesh without a caretaker government in power, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said. “We have only a single demand. Sheikh Hasina led government must have to resign first and the next general election will take place under a neutral caretaker government. The neutral caretaker government will form ...

Bangladesh has urged the United Nations, ASEAN and regional countries to support the pilot repatriation project and help Rohingya returnees reintegrate in Myanmar. Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations in New York, Ambassador Muhammad Abdul Muhith, made the call while speaking at the Security Council‘s Arria-formula meeting on Myanmar. The meeting convened by the United Kingdom was held ...

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Saturday urged countries, who are heavily investing in Myanmar, to come forward for a sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis for their own interests and to protect their investment. “If this problem is not resolved, you have seen many countries in the Asia Pacific and the Bay of Bengal — their attractions have increased ...

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has urged the industrialists to stop the use of illegal gas connections. “Whenever we visit a factory, we find that if there is a legal gas connection, there are three more illegal connections bypassing the main one”, he told a seminar at Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) where ...

A case has been filed against 1, 300 people in connection with the clash between BNP men and police during the party’s countrywide protest programme  in Khulna city on Friday. Officer-in-Charge of Khulna Sadar Police Station Hasan Al Mamun told our the Daily Observer correspondent  that Sub-Inspector Khalid Uddin as a plaintiff filed the case on Friday night with Khulna ...

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said BNP is taking preparation secretly for resorting to arson terrorism in the name of road march. “BNP is getting ready for violence and conspiracy in the name of movement. BNP is taking preparation for arson terrorism during its road march. BNP’s road march would be a march of fall,” he told ...

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been rejected outright by the United States government, BNP standing committee member Dr Khondker Mosharraf Hossain has said. He made the remark while addressing a rally as the chief guest in Chattogram city on Friday (May 19, 2023) afternoon. Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)’s city, south and north district units organised the rally on Noor ...

At least 30 people including police personnel were injured in a clash between the law enforcers and BNP supporters over holding a pre- scheduled rally of the party in front of Khulna Press Club in the city on Friday afternoon. Khulna Metropolitan Unit BNP member secretary Shafiqul Islam Tuhin claimed that at least 20 leaders and activists of their party ...