Bangladesh

Muslims of 40 villages in Chandpur began fasting from Thursday (March 23), in line with many Middle Eastern countries, including Saudi Arabia. The followers of this view were offering Taraweeh prayer on Wednesday night after Esha prayer and sehri in the early hours of Thursday. The people of these villages follow Sadra Darbar Sharif of Hajiganj upazila of the district. ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday handed over Swadhinata Padak (Independence Award) to nine individuals and one institution in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the country. The programme to distribute the highest civilian award was held at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium, UNB reports. Freedom fighter Colonel Shamsul Alam (retired), Lieutenant AG Mohammad Khurshid (posthumous), martyred Khwaja Nizamuddin Bhuiyan, and ...

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md. Shahriar Alam today sought more pro-active role from Vietnam on the repatriation of forcibly displaced Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar. He also voiced caution that further prolongation of the crisis would have region-wide security implications as those people remain vulnerable to exploitation. Shariar made the urge during a call on meeting with the ...

Awami League Obaidul Quader asked Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to shun the demand of restoration of the obsolete caretaker government. “BNP must forget the caretaker government issue. Today the UN ambassador in Dhaka was informed that the caretaker government system will never return to the country,” he told a meeting in the capital. Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) arranged the discussion ...

Muslims in the country will start fasting from Friday as the Ramadan moon was not seen in any part of the country. The National Moon Sighting Committee took the decision at a meeting held at the Islamic Foundation office at Baitul Mukarram with State Minister for Religious Affairs Faridul Haque Khan in the chair on Wednesday evening. The state minister ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday announced more seven districts and 159 upazilas across the country as homeless and landless free while handing over 39365 more semi-pacca houses to the homeless people free of cost ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr. “I have declared seven more districts and 159 upazilas as homeless and landless free,” she said while handing over the houses ...

Authorities of Bangladesh Railway have decided to sell all advance train tickets for Eid-ul-Fitr online. Tickets for trains on April 17 will be sold on April 7, while tickets for April 18, 19, 20 and 21 will be sold on April 8, 9, 10 and 11. Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan came up with the information at a press briefing ...

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has underscored the urgent need for unity and concerted efforts from the international community to resolve the Rohingya crisis, in the true spirit of responsibility and burden sharing. He urged the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Myanmar, Noeleen Heyzer, to enhance her engagements with Myanmar authorities as well as other stakeholders to improve ...

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md. Shahriar Alam on Tuesday said the US’s 2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in Bangladesh contains some “fundamental shortcomings and mistakes” and Dhaka will raise those to Washington. “We will raise these shortcomings with the US side so that such things do not exist in the next year’s report,” he told reporters at ...

President M Abdul Hamid on Tuesday (March 21, 2023) evening received credentials from the ambassadors of Turkey and Philippines to Bangladesh in two subsequent ceremonies and they were ceremonially welcomed at Bangabhaban in Dhaka. The envoys are Ramis Sen of the Republic of Turkey and Leo Tito L. Ausan Jr. of the Republic of the Philippines. Receiving their credentials, the ...