Bangladesh

Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan has called for enhanced global cooperation, finance and technology transfer to achieve transformational adaptation in the face of climate change. She made the call while speaking at the Ministerial Roundtable of the 9th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum held under the theme ‘Resilience for All: Catalyzing Transformational Adaptation’ in Bangkok on October 1, an official release ...

Journalists boycotted press conference of National Citizen Party (NCP) and returned back from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport after assaulting there by the party leaders and activists on Thursday morning. The incident happened at about 9:45AM at VIP entrance of the airport. According to the journalists, one of the media man requested NCP leaders, who were chanting slogans, to keep clam ...

The Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, comes to a close on Thursday, with the celebration of Bijoya Dashami. The day’s rituals marked with grand offerings, arati, and worship. The concluding rites begin this morning with the Dashami Bihit Puja, followed by the darpon bisorjon (ritual immersion of a mirror after holding it in front the ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has expressed deep sorrow at the death of Dr Jane Goodall, a world renowned zoologist, primatologist, anthropologist and conservationist. “I am deeply saddened by the passing of my dear friend Dr Jane Goodall, a world renowned zoologist, primatologist, anthropologist and conservationist,” he said in a condolence message early hours of Thursday. A tireless activist till ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus returned home on Thursday, wrapping up his nine-day New York tour to attend the 80th UN General Assembly (UNGA) session. A commercial flight of Emirates airlines, carrying the Chief Adviser and his entourages, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 9AM. Earlier, the flight departed from John F Kennedy International Airport in New ...

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin has said that expatriates will now have the opportunity to cast their votes with the help of modern technology. ”No matter where they are in the world, the expatriates will be able to vote with the help of modern technology. This initiative will be marked as a historic milestone in the country’s democratic ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus left New York on Tuesday night (US time) for Dhaka, concluding a nine-day visit. An Emirates Airlines commercial flight, carrying the Chief Adviser and his small entourage, took off from John F. Kennedy International Airport at 11:10PM (US time). Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States Tareq Md Ariful Islam and Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative to the ...

Palestinian Ambassador to Bangladesh Yousef S Y Ramadan met BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia on Tuesday night at her Gulshan residence, Firoza. The envoy arrived around 8:30 PM, and the meeting lasted for about 45 minutes. BNP Chairperson’s Advisory Council member Dr Enamul Haque Chowdhury and her Private Secretary ABM Abdus Sattar were also present. After the ...

Chief Adviser (CA) Dr Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday called on the international community to take urgent and coordinated action to resolve the prolonged Rohingya crisis, stressing that repatriation to Myanmar is the only sustainable solution. Speaking at the opening session of the High-Level Conference on the Situation of the Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities in Myanmar at the United Nations ...

Hindus across the country celebrated Kumari Puja on the Maha Ashtami on Tuesday as part of the five-day Durga Puja. The main attraction of Maha Ashtami is Kumari Puja where a pre-pubescent girl is worshipped as “Mother Goddess”. In the capital city, hundreds of Hindu devotees offered Anjali (prayers) before the virgin Goddess at Ramkrishna temple seeking blessings for peace, ...