Bangladesh

Ending week-long engagements in Italy and Qatar, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus returned home early Monday. A commercial flight carrying the Chief Adviser and his small entourage landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 3AM. Yunus joined the funeral mass of Pope Francis at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City on Saturday. SDGs Affairs Principal Coordinator Lamiya Morshed and Chief ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has left Rome for home, a day after joining the funeral mass of Pope Francis at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City. He departed from the Leonardo da Vinci Rome Fiumicino Airport around 8AM (12 noon Bangladesh Standard Time) on Sunday, said Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder. Yunus is expected to ...

BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury and four others have been acquitted in a case filed under the Special Powers Act over a leaked phone conversation during the 2018 student protests for road safety. Judge Md Jannatul Ferdous Ibn Haque of Dhaka’s Special Tribunal-14 delivered the verdict on Sunday, clearing all accused. The other acquitted individuals are Barrister ...

Vice Chairman of the National Consensus Commission Prof Ali Riaz has commented that the fascist ruler was forced to flee due to the united efforts of the people. He made this comment during a dialogue with Ganasamhati Andolon on Sunday morning. “There are attempts to address the deep-rooted crises Bangladesh has been facing for a long time. Implementing only the ...

The first hajj flight from Bangladesh will leave Dhaka on Tuesday (April 29) with 419 pilgrims after Religious affairs adviser Dr AFM Khalid Hossain inaugurated it officially on that day. A total of 87,100 Bangladeshi pilgrims will perform hajj this year. Of them, 81,900 have registered through private agencies. Around 2:15AM, the first flight will depart from Hazrat Shahjalal International ...

Poet Daud Haider, known for penning ‘Jonmoi Amar Ajonmo Paap’, passed away in Germany’s Berlin early Sunday. He breathed his last around 1:30AM (Bangladesh time) at a retirement home in Germany at the age of 73, his niece Shawonti Haider, an associate professor at the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at Dhaka University, confirmed. He added, “We can provide ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that China wishes to see a strong, stable, and democratic Bangladesh. Speaking to reporters after a meeting with a visiting delegation from the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Saturday evening, Fakhrul stated that China consistently emphasizes the importance of stability and prosperity for Bangladesh, alongside fostering a ...

More than 1,000 Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested from India’s western coastal state of Gujarat during a massive overnight operation conducted jointly by security forces in Ahmedabad and Surat. Gujarat’s Minister of State for Home Affairs, Harsh Sanghavi, confirmed the arrests on Saturday, according to a report by India’s state-run news agency Press Trust of India (PTI). According to the ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus attended the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday at St. Peter’s Square, paying his final respects to the late pontiff. The solemn ceremony, which began at 10:00am Vatican time, was attended by numerous world leaders, including US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Thousands gathered at the historic square to honor the memory ...

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has proposed the establishment of a bicameral parliament with a five-year tenure for each term, said the party’s Nayeb-e-Ameer Syed Abdullah Muhammad Taher on Saturday. Speaking at a press briefing during the lunch break of discussions with the National Consensus Commission at the LD Hall of the Jatiya Sangsad Complex, Taher confirmed, “We have agreed on the matter ...