Bangladesh

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said that the government can only be changed through elections. Directing his message to the opposition and in particular the BNP, he said nothing will be gained by plotting a conspiracy. The minister said this while inaugurating the Police Investigation Center and Liberation War Mural in Manikganj’s Harirampur upazila on Saturday, UNB reports. He also ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has announced to hold a grand rally in the capital on July 27 to press home their one-point demand to hold the next national election under a neutral government. The party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the programme from youth rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka on Saturday. The youth rally arranged by three ...

At least 17 people including seven children and five women were killed and 35 others injured when a bus plunged into a roadside pond at Chhatrakanda in Sadar upazila of Jhalakathi district on Saturday, reports UNB. Five of the deceased were identified as Sumaiya, 5, Samad Molla, 60, Tarik, 55, Shahin Molla, 33 and Abdullah, 7 while the identities of ...

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the opposition Bangladedsh Nationalist Party (BNP) had failed to wage a movement to oust the government and would fail to win the general election as well. He said the party had not been able to do anything in the last 14 years against AL and would not be able to do ...

Although the mosquito-borne disease dengue situation has worsened in the country, the time has not yet come to declare a public health emergency, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Saturday. “Dengue has spread in 60 districts including Dhaka. But such a situation has not yet happened that we are unable to give seats and medicines to the patients in the ...

Congressman Joe Wilson, the Co-Chair of Bangladesh Caucus at the US Congress, has said the United States (US) is looking forward to expanding trade ties and creating job opportunities for the people of both the countries. The Congressman, elected from South Carolina, was speaking as the chief guest at a reception hosted by Bangladesh Embassy in Washington DC on Thursday ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday laid emphasis on an amicable end to the Ukraine war, saying international cooperation in this time of growing instability is clearly vital to the vulnerable among the global community to build resilience against future shocks. “The prolonging war and the imposed sanctions and counter sanctions continue to destabilise the world. Each passing day of ...

Blaming the gross failure of the mayors of two Dhaka city corporations for the worst dengue outbreak in the capital, BNP on Friday announced a four-point programme to stand by the dengue patients and create public awareness. Tabith Awal and Ishraq Hossain, the two BNP nominated mayoral candidates in the last elections to the Dhaka north and south city corporations ...

Bangladesh Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) Ambassador Muhammad Abdul Muhith called on UN Secretary-General António Guterres to convey condemnation on the burning of holy Quran. “We deeply condemn the repeated incidents of the public burning of holy Quran in few countries as they insult the sacred values of Muslims worldwide,” he said while meeting the UN Secretary-General at ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah:   A seminar titled “Economic Development and International Trade “was held in the UK Houses of Parliament on 18 July at the initiative of the Conservative Friends of Bangladesh. Parliamentary Board President Bob Blackman MP with the support of Sujit Sen, Deputy Chair of Conservative Friends of Bangladesh moderated the seminar. Guest speakers and panellists highlighted the ...