Bangladesh

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested former minister for public administration Farhad Hossain from Eskaton area in Dhaka city on Saturday night, Shihab Karim, senior assistant director (media) of the RAB-2 Battalion Headquarters, confirmed the matter. He said that being tipped-off a team of the elite force conducted a drive in the Eskaton area under Hatirjheel police station and arrested Farhad ...

The interim government has already passed one month in power following the ouster of Sheikh Hasina led Awami League government through the mass uprising of students and people. But the newly-formed Jatiya Nagorik Committee comprising people of different strata of the society doesn’t see anything “hopeful” during the last one month’s activities of Professor Muhammad Yunus led interim government. Leaders ...

A Dhaka court has placed Safi Muddaser Khan Joty, son of former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, on a four-day remand for interrogation in an attempt to murder case. Dhaka Senior Judicial Magistrate M Saiful Islam passed the order after investigation officer Abu Taher Mia, also the sub-inspector of Ashulia Police Station, produced him before the court with a seven-day ...

Condemning the attacks in the strongest terms, the interim government on Saturday said the law enforcement agencies have been instructed to take adequate measures to protect the religious shrines and cultural sites. “The Interim Government condemns in the strongest terms any hate speech and attack on the religious and cultural sites and the Sufi shrines,” said a statement shared by ...

Police have arrested the son of former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal from Uttara area in the capital. The arrested is Safi Muddaser Khan Joty. Dhaka district police arrested him from Uttara area in the capital early Saturday (September 14). Superintendent of Dhaka police Amhed Mueed confirmed the arrest news. He added, “Joty was arrested at around 3:30AM in a ...

A high-level delegation led by Deputy Under Secretary Brent Neiman arrived in Dhaka on Saturday (September 13) morning on a three-day visit to Bangladesh. A plane, carrying the delegation, landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the morning. Foreign ministry’s Director General (North America Wing) Khandaker Masudul Alam received Brent Neiman at the airport. The delegation includes US State ...

A total of 875 people were killed and more than 30,000  injured in the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement from July 16 to September 9, said a report of Human Rights Support Society (HRSS) on Saturday. The report has been prepared by analyzing the data collected from 12 national dailies, HRSS’s investigation unit and volunteers from across the country, said a press ...

A high-level six-member delegation led by Deputy Under Secretary Brent Neiman will arrive in Dhaka on Saturday (September 13) on a three-day visit to Bangladesh. The delegation also includes US State Department Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia Donald Lu and USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator for Asia Anjali Kaur. Besides, Lindsey W Ford, deputy assistant secretary of Defense for ...

Japan has pledged $1 million in aid to support the flood-affected regions of northern and south-eastern Bangladesh. Iwama Kiminori, the Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh, shared the information through a post on the Embassy’s official Facebook page on Friday (September 13). He said, “The Government of Japan has decided to provide assistance worth $1 million to flood-affected areas of Bangladesh through ...

A batch of 150 irregular Bangladeshi migrants, who were detained in Libya‍‍’s Ganfuda Detention Centre, returned home on Friday morning. A Buraq Air chartered flight carrying the Bangladeshi nationals landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka around 9:15am, says a press release. The repatriation was facilitated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Bangladesh Embassy in Tripoli, and ...