Bangladesh

Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen on Tuesday said the government will offer the services of the Ansar – a paramilitary auxiliary force – to the foreign missions in Dhaka as alternatives as the withdrawal of “additional escort services” for four diplomats came into effect, reports UNB. Talking to reporters, the foreign secretary said they are likely to hold a meeting ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says the United States may not want her, or the progress her government made, to continue. During her visit to London, Hasina sat down with BBC anchor Yalda Hakim for an interview aired on Tuesday, commenting on the US sanctions on the Rapid Action Battalion and other issues. Hakim asked the prime minister about Bangladesh’s human ...

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said the people will decide who will come to power, not the foreigners. “The people will decide who will rule the country as we believe in people’s power,” he said while talking to journalists after paying tributes to the noted actor, valiant freedom fighter, and lawmaker ...

Information and Broadcasting Secretary Md Humayun Kabir Khandaker said noted film actor and freedom fighter Akbar Hossain Pathan (Farooque) had shown the path of patriotism in cinema. “Film actor Farooque had shown the path of honesty, patriotism and justice,” he made the comments while placing floral wreath on the coffin of Akbar Hossain Pathan (Farooque) at the Bangladesh Film Development ...

Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan on Tuesday (May 16) said the train service on the Dhaka-Cox’s Bazar route will be launched in September this year. “Out of the 10 priority projects of the government, two projects – the Padma Bridge Rail Link and the Dohazari-Cox’s Bazar new rail line construction project – are running under the Railway Ministry….the government ...

The body of legendary actor Akbar Hossain Pathan, popularly known as Farooque, arrived in Dhaka on Tuesday morning. A special US-Bangla flight carrying the body landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 7:50am. Farroque, also Member of Parliament from Dhaka-17 constituency, breathed his last at around 10am on Monday while undergoing treatment at Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital. He had been ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said Bangladesh and Japan have successfully elevated the bilateral relations to a ‘Strategic Partnership’ calling it the biggest achievement of her recent official visit to Japan. “By this visit, the bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Japan have reached to Strategic Partnership and that is our biggest achievement,” she said about her four-day Japan visit ...

Debapriya Bhattacharya, public policy analyst and distinguished fellow of Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), said on Monday that when the IMF takes a reform programme for a country, sometimes inequality increases, because of the conditions they attach. So, safeguards are needed when the IMF is involved in any major reform agenda, said the prominent economist. He made the statement in ...

  Ansar Ahmed Ullah:   Soon after the independence of Bangladesh, four freedom fighters, Jamal Hasan, Anwar Ahmed, Mahmud Abdul Quayum and Syed Akhtar Ali, set out on a world cycle tour on a special mission. They wanted to thank the people of the world who supported Bangladesh’s Liberation War. They started their tour from the front garden of 32 ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday asked new Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) cadre officers to work with patriotism and sincerity as country’s development spree conducted by the government for the last 14 years isn’t hampered in anyway. “You (BCS officers) should work sincerely as the change in development, we have made in the country for the last 14 years, cannot ...