Bangladesh

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud on Sunday said people of the whole country have protested the incident (report) of the Prothom Alo, but the newspaper does not apologize yet. “Today, the people of the entire country have opened up their mouths and are protesting the incident (report) of the Prothom Alo. But the concerned newspaper is yet to apologize. ...

Jatiya Party on Sunday (April 2, 2023) hosted an Iftar party and dinner at a city hotel in honour of foreign diplomats working in Bangladesh. Besides, senior leaders belonging to Awami League, BNP and other political parties, and civil society representatives joined the Iftar party. Foreign diplomats stationed in Dhaka, including ambassadors, high commissioners and representatives from around 18 countries ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday stressed the need for ensuring that seekers of jobs abroad must not fall prey to the frauds and middlemen. “So we always have to consider that these people could go abroad through proper channel and get appropriate job. It is very important for us to ensure that these people must not fall prey to ...

This year’s minimum Fitra has been fixed at Tk 115 per person and maximum at Tk 2,640. The decision was taken at a meeting of the National Fitra Fixing Committee in the conference room of the Islamic Foundation on Sunday. The meeting was presided over by president of National Fitra fixing Committee and Khatib of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque Hafez ...

Prothom Alo editor and publisher Matiur Rahman on Sunday sought anticipatory bail from the High Court in a case filed against him with Ramna Police Station under the Digital Security Act (DSA). The bail petition was filed this morning, said Adv Proshanto Kumar Karmakar, a counsel for Matiur Rahman. On March 29, an FIR was filed by lawyer Abdul Malek ...

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the daily Prothom Alo and BNP are working to complement each other to undermine the government. “There is no doubt that the report published by Prothom Alo is part of an international conspiracy. Prothom Alo and BNP are working to complement each other,” he said. Quader was addressing a joint meeting ...

The fall of the government will be accelerated through the mass uprising, said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam on Saturday (April 1, 2023). “The fall of this government is imminent as people have become awakened about its misrule and rampant corruption,” he said while speaking as the chief guest at a sit-in programme at Institution of Engineers Bangladesh (IEB) ...

US Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration Ambassador Julieta Valls Noyes has said rebuilding the country after the 1971 war, and now forging the path toward economic growth, inclusion and development, Bangladesh serves as a model in many ways for the rest of the world. Julieta Noyes applauded Bangladeshi leadership and generosity as a ...

The recently adopted UN General Assembly Resolution, requesting for an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on obligations of states in respect to climate change, recognizes the link between climate change and displacement of affected persons. Bangladesh’s Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen said this while speaking at a panel discussion organized by IOM during its 2023 International ...

Prothom Alo journalist Shamsuzzaman Shams was sent back to Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj from Kashimpur Central Jail-1 in Gazipur on Saturday morning. He was sent to the Dhaka Central Jail around 10:15am in a prison van, said Shahjahan Ahmed, senior jail super of Kashimpur Central Jail-1. Earlier on Friday, the journalist was shifted to Kashimpur Jail with several other ...