Bangladesh

The National Economic Council (NEC) has approved Tk 2,27,566 crore revised Annual Development Programme (ADP) for the current fiscal year, downsizing the original ADP size by 7.51 per cent. The revised ADP is slated to implement a total of 1,526 projects under 15 sectors with the allocation of Tk 2,20,512, which is 96.90 per cent of the revised ADP. Of ...

A Shilong court has directed the Indian government to send BNP Standing Committee member Salahuddin Ahmed back to Bangladesh. Salahuddin, who is in India now, confirmed it on Wednesday. The Shilong judge court in India’s Meghalaya state has upheld a magistrate court’s verdict that acquitted the BNP leader in a case filed against him over trespassing into India in 2015. ...

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said all-out efforts have been going on to nab the fugitive militants who escaped from the Judge Court premises in Dhaka. “It’s not right that fugitive militants who escaped from the court premises cannot be caught. We have nabbed many militants and also found out many of them. All-out efforts have been going on ...

Mirpur-10 Metro Rail Station has opened to commuters, nearly two months after the inauguration of the country’s much-awaited metro rail. The station doors were opened for passengers at about 8.30am. From today, the train can pick up and drop off passengers at Mirpur-10 Metro Rail Station. With this, five out of nine Metro Rail stations have been opened, so far. ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday inaugurated the National Insurance Day-2023 to enhance public awareness about the insurance. She opened the day at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) here this morning to promote the idea of insurance across the country. The Ministry of Finance and the Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority (IDRA) jointly organised the programme. The Day is ...

Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan he does not know whether the sale of train tickets in black market would be stopped completely or not. He further said that they are trying to stop black marketing of train tickets. The minister made the remarks while addressing journalists after visiting Kamalapur Railway Station in the capital on Wednesday. According to the new ...

Awami League general secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader left Dhaka on Wednesday for Singapore for his routine health check-up. He left Dhaka on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight at 8:30 am. The AL general secretary will return to Dhaka on March 3 after the health check-up at Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital.

Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina reiterated her appeal to the countrymen to vote for her party’s election symbol “Boat” to continue the current government’s endeavors to ensure the country’s overall development. “The next national election will be held in December next or January, 2024. I urge you to again vote for the “Boat” and bring Awami ...

BNP on Tuesday voiced concern that the ongoing economic crisis and growing inflation have turned into a national crisis, leaving common people in the lurch. Speaking at a press conference at the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office, party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir also said the nation will not get rid of the ongoing economic crisis unless the ‘corrupt and ...

A Dhaka court has ordered seizing three bank accounts and a house of former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and his brother Ananta Kumar Sinha in the US. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Asaduzzaman passed the order following a petition filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission’s deputy director Md. Gulshan Anwar, also the investigation officer of the case. ACC Assistant Director ...