Bangladesh

Noted economist Professor Nurul Islam, former deputy chairman of the first planning commission, died of old age complications in the early hours of Tuesday in Washington DC of the United States. He was 94. Bangladesh High Commission in Washington DC sources confirmed it. Nurul Islam was one of the closest advisors to and confidants of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu ...

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said the government has once again started the ‘old game’ of arresting and harassing BNP leaders and activists to clear the field before the next general election. “The way they completely controlled the 2014 and 2018 elections and took the results in their favour, today they have again started the same ...

A Dhaka court has sentenced Dubai’s gold trader Arav Khan to 10 years in jail in an arms act case. Judge Murshid Ahmed of Dhaka’s Special Tribunal-14 announced the verdict in his absence on Tuesday. The judge also fined him Tk 10,000, in default, of which he will have to serve three more months in jail. The punishment of the ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home from London on Tuesday morning wrapping up her 15-day official visit to Japan, the US and the UK. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the premier, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 10:05am. Earlier, the flight departed Heathrow International Airport, London, at 6:25pm on Monday (London Time). On April ...

The fourteenth death anniversary of eminent nuclear scientist with international repute and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s husband Dr MA Wazed Miah (Sudha Miah) today, reports BSS The nuclear scientist, who has a colorful working life experience, was born on February 16, 1942 in a respectable Muslim family of Laldighee Fatehpur village in Pirganj upazila of Rangpur. He died on May ...

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal is expected to present the national budget for FY2023-24 in Parliament on June 1, a ministry spokesman said on Monday. The finance division got the approval of relevant official documents on Monday as part of the preparation, Gazi Tawhidul Islam, public relations officer of the Finance Ministry, told UNB. In the documents, responsibilities on the ...

The Public Division of the Bangabhaban has requested to write proper spelling of name of President Mohammed Shahabuddin. This information was revealed in a notification of the Press Information Department (PID) on Monday (May 8). The notification added proper spelling of the name of the President in Bangla and English. In Bangla, the name is — মো. সাহাবুদ্দিন, and in ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave London for home on Monday wrapping up her tri-nation tour to Japan, the USA and the UK. A special VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the prime minister and her entourage members will depart from the Heathrow International Airport at around 18:20 (London time). Bangladesh High Commissioner in London Saida Muna Tasneem will ...

The 162nd birth anniversary of Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore, who reshaped the Bengali literature and music as well as arts of Indian subcontinent with contextual modernism is being observed on Monday.  

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called the BNP-Jamaat vote thieves, saying the Bangladesh people will vote for Awami League (AL) in the next elections as she was accorded a civic reception by expatriate Bangladeshis in the United Kingdom (UK). “They (BNP-Jamaat) will destroy Bangladesh. So, make sure that BNP-Jamaat clique couldn’t come to power again,” she told the function held ...