Bangladesh

Saudi commerce minister Dr. Majid bin Abdullah Al Qasabi arrived in Dhaka on Friday. Foreign Minister Dr. A K Abdul Momen welcomed Qasabi at Bangabandhu Bangladesh Airforce Base at around 05:15 pm. The Saudi commerce minister is visiting Bangladesh to attend ‘Bangladesh Business Summit-2023’ to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina tomorrow.

UK’s Indo-Pacific Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan arrived in Dhaka on Friday (March 10, 2023) to discuss security, democracy, human rights, trade and the Rohingya crisis. Trevelyan will meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen as well as hold talks with civil society organisations, humanitarian actors, climate experts, and business groups, report agencies. As Bangladesh continues its development ...

The decision on the affected Gulistan building will be taken after 45 days, said a member of the RAJUK probe committee on Friday morning. The rescue operation of Fire Service and Civil Defence has been stopped at the six-storey Gulistan building in the capital on Friday morning. But the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) authority is carrying out propping work at ...

Without any problem, the medical admission test was held, said Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque. Committee was formed involving expert physicians for the examination. They (physicians) have formulated question papers. And the question papers were sent to each examination centre after tracking and using digital system. The minister came up with the information after visiting an exam centre at Dhaka ...

  Bangladesh High Commission, London marked the historic 7 March by hosting a high-profile panel discussion titled “Contemporary Thoughts on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib’s Historic 7 March Speech: A UNESCO Documentary Heritage” at the mission’s Bangabandhu Lounge on Tuesday where speakers observed that the Speech delivered by Bangladesh’s Founding Father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on 7 March 1971 is considered as ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked the filmmakers to produce life-oriented decent movies to keep the people away from wrongdoings and offenses in the society. “The life-oriented arts and cinemas attract the people much. The reason is that the people get the reflection of their own life from there. A cinema can change the life of a person or ...

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Thursday questioned intentions of some people who are talking against Bangladesh and its leader Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, noting that to them “grapes are sour.” “It does not matter much. It’s unrealistic and not objective,” he told reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when a reporter sought his comment on an appeal by ...

Law Minister Anisul Huq on Thursday said that there is no foreign pressure on the government about the upcoming national election. “If foreigners want to know (about election), we don’t mind telling them about it as we do not do politics of killings or lies. We don’t hide anything, so we have no objection and no hesitation to let the ...

Reserved seat MP-elect (Woman seat-50) Afroza Haque took oath as a member of the 11th Parliament today. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered the swearing-in at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. Parliament Secretariat’s Senior Secretary K M Abdus Salam conducted the oath-taking ceremony. Deputy Speaker Shamsul Haque, Whip Iqbalur Rahim and lawmakers Shirin Akhter and Wasika Ayesha Khan were present at ...

Gulistan building explosion death toll has risen to 22 as another burn victim succumbed to his injuries on Thursday. Md Yasin Arafat, 26, succumbed at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery while he was undergoing treatment there. With this, the death toll from the explosion has risen to 22. Dr Samanta ...