Bangladesh

Nobel Laureate economist Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus has filed an appeal to the Labour Appeal Tribunal seeking permission to go abroad. The appeal was filed at the Labour Appeal Tribunal on behalf of him on Sunday (March 10). The appeal states that Dr Muhammad Yunus wants to attend several international conferences abroad. The appeal was filed as the tribunal has ...

A meeting of the Awami League (AL) secretariat will be held at the party’s central office of Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital on Monday morning. A press release signed by AL office secretary Barrister Biplab Barua said AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader will preside over the meeting scheduled to begin at 11am. Quader has ...

The High Court (HC) on Monday said primary and secondary schools across the country will remain shut throughout the month of Ramadan. A HC bench of Justice KM Kamrul Kader and Justice Khizir Hayat Lizu stayed for two months a government decision to keep schools open for certain period during Ramadan. Advocate Mahmuda Khanam stood for the writ petitioner while ...

Tahsin Bahar Suchona, daughter of Cumilla-6 lawmaker AKM Bahauddin Bahar, has unofficially won in the Cumilla City Corporation by-polls. Returning officer Farhad Hossain announced the result from the Cumilla District School Auditorium on Saturday evening. He said the voting took place in 105 centres across 27 wards through Electronic Voting Machine (EVM). He said Tahsin Bahar, who contested for the ...

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said that there are no political prisoners in country’s jail and those who are imprisoned are BNP activists. “BNP claims that thousands of political prisoners are in jail, I would say that there is no political prisoner here in the country. Those who are jailed are BNP activists,” he said. He said this while replying to ...

Jatiya Party (JaPa) founder chairman late Hussein Muhammad Ershad’s wife Raushan Ershad has been elected as the chairman of a faction of the party for the next three years. Her name was announced at the 10th National Council of a faction of the party held in Dhaka on Saturday (March 9). Kazi Firoze Rashid and Kazi Mamunur Rashid have been ...

United Arab Emirates (UAE) Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan has emphasised on transforming the relationship with Bangladesh into a partnership. At the bilateral meeting with visiting Bangladesh Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud yesterday evening (local time) in his royal palace in the city of Al Ain in Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Abdullah emphasised the importance of signing the Comprehensive ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday presided over a regular meeting of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Trust. The meeting was held at her official Ganabhaban residence in the capital, reports BSS. In the meeting, the premier, also chairperson of the trust, directed the authorities concerned to expedite the activities of the ongoing projects to complete ...

Voting in Cumilla and Mymensingh City Corporations began at 8am on Saturday. Polling is being held through electronic voting machines (EVMs). In Cumilla, there is only voting in the mayoral by-election is being held. Meanwhile, in Mymensingh, as the term of the city corporation has expired, there is being held voting for all the posts of mayor and councilors. Incumbent mayor ...

Women have been humiliated and insulted most during the 16 years of rule of Sheikh Hasina, said BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. He said the International Women’s Day is being observed in Bangladesh such a time when the country’s womenfolk are repressed and suppressed everywhere. Rizvi was addressing a press conference at the party’s central office at ...