Bangladesh

Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal has said that the Election Commission want to take the challenge of holding free, fair and peaceful elections. “The crisis in the election is the crisis of trust. We want to take the challenge of free, fair and peaceful polls.” The CEC said this while inaugurating a training workshop at the Election Training Institute ...

US Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Rena Bitter is now in Bangladesh on a two-day official visit. She is scheduled to meet with government officials to discuss consular issues. The official visited Islamabad and Karachi in Pakistan before her arrival in Dhaka, reports UNB. The Assistant Secretary will meet with embassy and consulate staff and observe consular operations, ...

In response to a letter from Sampadak Parishad (Editors’ Council) expressing concern over a recent remark about applying US visa policy on the media in Bangladesh, US Ambassador Peter Haas has reiterated his government’s commitment to staunchly defend press freedom and the “right of journalists and media outlets to exercise their right to freedom of expression,” reports UNB. “That includes ...

Japan will provide 2,17,556 million Japanese Yen (approximately $1,500 million) more in seventh tranche under the 44th Japanese Loan Package (2nd batch) for the Matarbari Ultra Super Critical Coal-Fired Power Project. Under the project, ‘Exchange of Notes’ and ‘Loan Agreement’ for 7th tranche of Matarbari Ultra Super Critical Coal-fired Power Project under the 44th Japanese ODA Loan Package (2nd batch) ...

    A commercial flight of the British Airways carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage members landed at the London Heathrow Airport at 11:07am today local time. Bangladesh High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK) Saida Muna Tasneem received the Premier at the airport. The flight had departed the Dulles International Airport, Washington DC, for London at 11:40pm (Washington ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that if BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia wishes to go abroad for treatment, she will have to go to jail, and go to court first. “We will be bound to withdraw her treatment process which she is currently receiving at home,” the Premier said in an interview with Voice of America (VOA) on Saturday (30 ...

Laxmipur-3 lawmaker AKM Shajahan Kamal passes away on Saturday morning. He was 82. Confirming the death news, Prof ASM Maksud Kamal, younger brother of the deceased and pro vice chancellor (academic) of Dhaka University, said that his elder brother breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka around 3:30 am. The first namaz-e-janaza for Shajahan Kamal will ...

Abdus Sattar Bhuiyan, lawmaker from Brahmanbaria-2 constituency, passed away at a private hospital in the capital early Saturday at the age of 84. He breathed his last at Evercare Hospital at about 3am while underwent treatment there. MP Abdus Sattar had been suffering from kidney problem for a long time, said his only son Mainul Hasan, adding that, his father ...

  Speakers at a high-level panel discussion ‘Empowering Women in Maritime and Oceans Diplomacy’ praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s leadership to encourage women in the maritime industry including inducting women in the marine academy. The event was organised by Bangladesh High Commission, London at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) on Wednesday. High Commissioner for Bangladesh to the UK Saida Muna ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said the upcoming general election cannot be held under the existing constitution in any way. He made the remarks while speaking as the chief guest at a women’s rally organised by Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal in front of the BNP central office at Nayapaltan in the capital on Friday afternoon. The rally was ...