Bangladesh

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday night arrived London from Washington DC to attend the coronation of Charles III and his wife Camilla as the King and the Queen Consort of the United Kingdom (UK) and the other Commonwealth realms. A United Airlines flight carrying the prime minister and her entourage members landed at the Heathrow International Airport in London ...

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has alleged that the government has been working against independence and it should not be allowed to come to power again in any way. “It’s a matter of regret and shame  that Awami League has taken a stance against independence now. During the Liberation War our aim and expectation was to establish a ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has returned to her house from the Evercare Hospital in Dhaka after a five-day stay in the hospital. She reached her ‘Firoza’ residence at Gulshan at about 6.20pm on Thursday. Earlier,  Khaleda Zia was admitted to the hospital on April 29. Former prime minister Khaleda Zia, 77, has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, ...

Jatiya Party (JaPa) has nominated its mayoral candidates for five city corporation polls. The five city corporations are Gazipur, Sylhet, Khulna, Rajshahi and Barishal. The nominated candidates are MM Niaz Uddin in Gazipur; Md Saiful Islam Swapan in Rajshahi; Md Shafiqul Islam Modhu in Khulna; Engineer Md Iqbal Hossain Taposh in Barishal and Md Nazrul Islam Babul in Sylhet. The ...

Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen has shared the outline of Bangladesh’s recently released Indo-Pacific outlook. The US side noted a number of areas of convergence between the two countries’ respective Indo-Pacific documents. Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen briefed his US counterpart about various measures taken by Bangladesh’s Election Commission to pave the way for free and fair elections at both ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will return her Gulshan residence from Evercare Hospital on Thursday afternoon after five days’ of medical checkup. The Chairperson’s press wing member Shamsuzzaman Dider said Khaleda Zia is expected to go home today as per her doctor’s advise. A member of her medical board said on Wednesday that Khaleda Zia is now better than before. There ...

Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, is being celebrated in the country on Thursday. Buddha Purnima marks Gautama Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death. On this day in 563 BC, Buddha was born as Siddhartha Gautama in Kapilabastu at the foothill of the Himalayas, reports UNB. He attained supreme enlightenment at the age of 35 and finally ...

The High Court granted bail to Mamunul Haque in 5 cases filed in Dhaka’s Paltan and Chittagong’s Hathazari police stations. The High Court bench of Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and Justice Aminul Islam passed the order on Wednesday (May 3). Advocate Helal Uddin Molla confirmed the matter. Bangladesh Khilafat Majlis leader Maulana Mamunul Haque came to the discussion on May ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Washington DC for London on Thursday to attend the coronation of Charles III and his wife Camilla as the king and the queen of the United Kingdom (UK) and the other Commonwealth realms. A United Airlines flight carrying the prime minister and her entourage members will depart from the Dulles International Airport in Washington ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the countrymen to stay alert as the anti-liberation elements, killers and arson terrorists never return to power. “Make sure that the killers, anti-liberation elements and war criminals never return to power again,” she told a civic reception accorded to her by expatriate Bangladeshis in the USA at The Ritz-Carlton hotel’s Hall Room in Washington ...