Bangladesh

State Secretary to the Norwegian Minister of Climate and Environment Ragnhild Sjoner Syrstad on Wednesday announced her country’s contribution of NOK 70 million, equivalent to US$6.5 million, for the energy and environment programme of the Rohingya response in Bangladesh, reports UNB. The contribution will support the provision of cleaner cooking energy to Rohingya refugees, the continued rehabilitation of biodiversity and ...

State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Mohammad Enamur Rahman on Wednesday said Cyclone Mocha is likely to intensify into a super cyclone. However meteorologists are predicting by the time it makes landfall, it would most likely take the form of a severe cyclonic storm. The cyclone is likely to make landfall on Cox’s Bazar coast by Sunday (May 14), ...

The government taken all-out measures to deal with the Cyclone ‘Mocha’, State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Dr Md Enamur Rahman has said. He informed journalists about it at the beginning of a meeting held at the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief in this regard on Wednesday (May 10) afternoon. Quoting the meteorologists, the State Minister said the ...

Bangladesh is operating four chartered flights from Sudan, at its own cost, to evacuate 555 Bangladeshi citizens to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Three of the chartered flights will be operated today, while the fourth will be operated tomorrow, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam told reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday. He said the government has ...

Jatiya Party (JaPa) chairman GM Quader has predicted that the next general election may give birth to major incidents in the history of Bangladesh. “The incidents may be good or bad. Confrontation and conflict may arise, while politics may be subjected to suppression or repression,” he said. “In fact, there are problems in the country’s politics, but we don’t see ...

BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman’s close friend Giausuddin Al Mamun has filed a petition seeking stay on charge framing order in the Niko graft case. Khurshid Alam Khan, lawyer of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), confirmed about the petition on Wednesday. “The copy of the plea now in my hand,” he said. On March 19, Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-9 Judge Sheikh ...

European Union (EU) Ambassador to Bangladesh Charles Whiteley on Tuesday said they are not here to ‘mediate or interfere’ in politics in Bangladesh but they are here to meet and listen to all political parties to understand the situation, reports UNB. He, however, said they “of course, want to see free and fair elections” in Bangladesh without any violence and ...

Noted economist Professor Nurul Islam, former deputy chairman of the first planning commission, died of old age complications in the early hours of Tuesday in Washington DC of the United States. He was 94. Bangladesh High Commission in Washington DC sources confirmed it. Nurul Islam was one of the closest advisors to and confidants of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu ...

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said the government has once again started the ‘old game’ of arresting and harassing BNP leaders and activists to clear the field before the next general election. “The way they completely controlled the 2014 and 2018 elections and took the results in their favour, today they have again started the same ...

A Dhaka court has sentenced Dubai’s gold trader Arav Khan to 10 years in jail in an arms act case. Judge Murshid Ahmed of Dhaka’s Special Tribunal-14 announced the verdict in his absence on Tuesday. The judge also fined him Tk 10,000, in default, of which he will have to serve three more months in jail. The punishment of the ...