Bangladesh

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,” ...

Making criticism of the government over budget doesn’t suit Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Awami League (AL) general secretary Obaidul Quader has said. “Today BNP is making bigger talks. During their government’s tenure, BNP looted the country’s money,” he said. “What was the size of national budget during BNP tenure and what is it now? Bangladesh made huge progress in GDP ...

Some 1,700 megawatt of load-shedding is going on in the country, said State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid on Saturday. “Because of this loadshedding of power, sufferings of people have mounted. We regret for it. The Payra Thermal Power Plant will be shut down on Monday (June 5) due to persisting coal shortage,” he said. The ...

Addressing the ruling Awami League government, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said the government’s bell of departure has started ringing. Their time is over. Still there is time to hand over power to a caretaker government. He was speaking at a demonstration in front of the party’s central office at Nayapaltan in the capital on Saturday afternoon. ...

Bangladesh pledged voluntary contribution of $50,000to to the “United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)” for the year 2023 . The announcement came at the UNRWA pledging conference held Saturday at UNHQs, said a press release. The modest contribution is a demonstration of steadfast commitment of the Government and people of Bangladesh to ...

Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh’s senior nayebe ameer Allama Shah Muhammad Yahya passed away early Saturday. He breathed his last around 1:20am at United Hospital in the capital while undergoing treatment there. Shah Muhammad Yahya, also the director general of Al Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Uloom Moinul Islam in Chattogram’s Hathazari upazila, had been suffering from various old age complications. As health condition deteriorated ...

The proposed national budget of the next fiscal was not prepared at the dictation of International Monetary Fund (IMF), said Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Friday. “Rather, the proposed budget was prepared keeping common people’s welfare in mind,” he said while addressing a post-budget press conference at Bangabandhu International Convention Centre in the capital. However, steps have been taken ...

Bangladesh government has signed a deal to import 1.80 lakh tonnes of Muriate of Potash, which is known as MoP, from Russia in 2023-24 fiscal year. Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) and the Prodintorg, a Russian state-owned enterprise, have signed the agreement on Thursday (June1) at Russian capital Moscow, said an official release in Dhaka on Friday. Chairman of BADC ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Friday morning reached Turkey’s capital Ankara on a six-day visit to attend the installation ceremony of Turkish President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdogan, slated for June 3. “A VVIP aircraft (Flight No. BG207) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the President along with his spouse Dr Rebecca Sultana and his entourage members, landed at Ankara Esenboga Airport, Ankara at ...

The proposal of imposing a minimum tax of Tk 2,000 even on those individuals who do not have taxable incomes is illogical and immoral, said Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) on Friday. It urged the government to withdraw the proposal of the minimum income tax. “On the one hand, the government has proposed to increase the tax-free income limit to ...