Bangladesh

Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) started its bus services on the Dhaka Elevated Expressway on Monday (September 18). A total of eight BRTC buses will ply from Farmgate to the Airport without any stoppage everyday. These will run as ‘Shuttle Service’. It means the buses will ply from one side to another side of the expressway. The BRTC buses will ...

BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia was shifted to the coronary care unit (CCU) of Evercare Hospital early Monday. “The BNP chief was transferred to the CCU at 1:30am as per the recommendation of her medical board.” Shamsuddin Didar, a member of the BNP chairperson’s media wing, confirmed to the media in the morning. He said the medical board, formed for ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reached New York to attend the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). A flight of the British Airways (BA 1593) carrying the premier and her entourage members landed at the JKF International Airport, New York at 10:42 pm (New York time) on September 17 after a four-hour stopover at the Heathrow Airport ...

Election Commissioner (EC) Md Anisur Rahman today said the 12th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) elections will be held in the first week of January, 2024 and the schedule will be announced in November next. “We want a participatory election. The nation’s expectation is also the same,” he said while talking to journalists at circuit house here. Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Abul Kalam ...

A court in Dhaka on Sunday (September 17) allowed a prosecution plea to produce three foreigners, including a former FBI agent, to testify in Niko graft case against BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and seven others. The three foreigners are former supervisory special agent Debra LaPrevotte Grifith of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the USA, and Kevin Duggan and ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that elections will never be fair if the current government is in power. “Let’s wake up, defeat this government,” Fakhrul urged the countrymen. He was speaking as the chief guest at the party’s second day youth march in Bogura on Sunday. Mirza Fakhrul said, “This government has not only failed to ...

A mild earthquake of magnitude 4.2 jolted Dhaka and its surrounding areas on Sunday. It was felt around 12:50pm. According to UNB reports, the earthquake, measuring 4.2 magnitude on the Richter Scale, was felt at 12:49 pm — lasted only for a few seconds, according to a Bangladesh Meteorological Department update signed by Assistant Meteorologist Farzana Sultana. The epicentre of ...

The three associate bodies of opposition BNP started its scheduled youth march from Bogura for the second consecutive day on Sunday (September 17). Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, Swechchhasebak Dal and Chhatra Dal organised the two-day march as part of their one-point demand. At about 9am, the partymen started the march from Santahar Road of the district where BNP Secretary General Mirza ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka for New York on Sunday morning to attend the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the prime minister and her entourage departed from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 10:10am. The flight is scheduled to land at the John F. Kennedy International Airport, New ...

A vibrant civil society is essential to the prosperity of every nation, according to a joint Franco-German statement. France and Germany are “deeply attached to respect for the rule of law as well as to the democratic acquis in Bangladesh,” it said, reports UNB. They will continue to support defenders of human rights in Bangladesh, like throughout the world, reads ...