Bangladesh

Bangladeshi women pilgrims have lauded Hajj operations in Saudi Arabia, describing their experience so far as smooth while thanking authorities in the Kingdom for treating them with care and kindness, reports Arab News. Bangladesh is sending about 125,000 individuals for the annual Hajj pilgrimage, more than double the quota it received last year, when it was 60,000. This year, over ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday alleged that the US visa policy for Bangladesh is the outcome of Awami League’s misrule and mischievous activities. Speaking at a seminar, he also said that democratic countries are creating various pressures on the current regime to restore democracy as it has destroyed all democratic institutions, UNB reports. “The USA has ...

The World Environment Day will be observed in the country, as elsewhere across the globe, today, encouraging people in taking collective and transformative action on a global scale to protect and restore the planet and its environment. Held on June 5 each year, World Environment Day has a specific host country and a theme. Côte D’Ivoire, in partnership with the ...

The second and last unit of the Payra 1,320 MW Thermal Power Plant was also shut down from 12:30pm on Monday (June 5) due to persisting coal shortage. This is the first time that the power plant has been completely shut down since its opening.  

Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq today said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will decide when the election-time government will be formed. “According to the Constitution, our state is governed in the Westminister model of parliamentary system. Therefore, the prime minister will decide when to form a small government or an election-time government,” the law minister said while responding ...

Considering the health safety of children due to the heat wave sweeping the country for the last few days, the government has decided to suspend classes at primary schools from June 5 to 8. The Primary and Mass Education Ministry issued a notice in this regard on Sunday. A severe heat wave is sweeping Rajshahi, Naogaon, Nilphamari and Dinajpur districts ...

Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Iwama Kiminori met BNP’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today and discussed Bangladesh’s next general election and the overall political situation. Talking to reporters after the meeting at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office, the party’s standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said that Japan, like other democratic countries, wants to see a free, fair, ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin along with his spouse Dr. Rebecca Sultana today attended the oath-taking ceremony of Turkey’s newly elected President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Grand National Assembly of the Presidential Complex in Turkey’s capital Ankara tonight. President’s press secretary Md. Joynal Abedin, who is traveling with the president, told BSS that Bangladesh President along with other 77 world leaders ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday flagged off a new intercity train named ‘Chilahati Express’ on Dhaka-Chilahati-Dhaka route in a bid to strengthen the connectivity between the northern region with the capital and expand the business in the area. The premier commissioned the Chilahati Express through a virtual platform, joining an event at Chilahati Railway Station from her official residence ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said it doesn’t matter at all if someone does not go to the USA crossing the Atlantic Ocean on a 20-hour plane journey. “There are other oceans and other continents in the world, we will make friends with those continents crossing the other oceans. Our economy will be stronger and more developed and vibrant,” ...