Bangladesh

Austrian Ambassador to Bangladesh, stationed in New Delhi, Dr Katharina Wieser, met BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday. The meeting, which lasted for about an hour, began at 12:30 pm at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office, said Sayrul Kabir Khan, a member of the BNP media cell. Honorary Consul of Austria to Bangladesh and BNP Chairperson’s Foreign ...

Former Chief Justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim passed away on Saturday morning at a private hospital in the capital. He was 81. He died around 4:45AM while undergoing treatment at the hospital, the Supreme Court administration confirmed. His namaz-e-janaza will be held at the Inner Garden of the court at 1:30PM. Meanwhile, all judicial functions of Supreme Court’s both divisions will ...

The eight-month-old baby girl, who was abducted alongwith valuables during a robbery at a house at Azimpur Medical Staff Quarters in the capital on Friday, has been rescued from Mohammadpur area. A team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has been able to rescue the girl within 24 hours of her abduction, RAB’s Legal and Media wing director Lt Col Munim ...

Editor of the daily Amar Desh, Dr Mahmudur Rahman feels that the “ghosts of Fascism” are still roaming around us. He expressed his determination to fight against them while urging the government to support the press. “We must fight against these ghosts of Fascism. The government must support the press so it can present the truth.” He made these remarks ...

Members of the Tablighi Jamaat faction, led by Indian preacher Muhammad Saad Kandhalvi, took over the management duties of Kakrail Mosque on Friday from their rival faction, led by senior cleric Zubair Ahmed, for two-week. According to police, followers of Maulana Saad entered the mosque and took over management duties reportedly on the basis of a mutual agreement. Meanwhile, Maulana ...

The Bangladesh Army has issued a warning against the fraudulent activities using its name in jhut (unused fabric from garment factories) business. In a media release, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) made the call on Friday morning. “It has been noticed that some unscrupulous individuals and vested quarters have been using the names of army officers to take proprietary control ...

Additional police have been deployed at Kakrail in Dhaka on Friday morning to avoid any untoward situation amid increasing tension between the followers of the two Tablighi Jamaat factions. Sohel Rana, additional deputy commissioner (Ramna zone) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said they have strengthened the security measures in the adjoining areas, through no incident of violence has been reported so ...

Police took custody of Golam Kibria Tipu, general secretary of Dhaka metropolitan unit Swechasebak League, voluntary wing of Awami League, on Friday after locals detained him from his hideout in Dakshin Keraniganj of the capital. Officer-in-Charge of Dakshin Keraniganj police station Mazharul Islam said locals detained Kinria from Bir Baghoir area on Thursday night and handed him over to police. ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus returned home on Thursday evening wrapping up his Baku tour to attend the global climate meet titled “Conference of Parties-29 (COP29),” reports BSS. “A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the chief adviser and his entourage reached the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 8:00pm,” CA’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder said. ...

The government has taken punitive measures against two officials stationed at Bangladesh Mission in Geneva in connection with the harassment of Law, Justice and Expatriate Welfare ministries’ adviser Dr Asif Nazrul in Switzerland, said Toufique Hasan, Director General, Public Diplomacy Wing of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He disclosed it at a weekly media briefing held at the Ministry of ...