Bangladesh

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas on Tuesday said his country is committed to working with Bangladesh to eliminate corruption – enabling Bangladeshis to enjoy lives of dignity and drawing more international trade and foreign investment. “If Bangladesh can assure citizens and investors that corruption is less prevalent here than in other markets, it will attract more investment and help ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said intensified global steps were needed to stop war in Ukraine as it continued to cause common peoples miseries across the world, as she gave an exclusive interview to the CNN TV. “I feel that the world should come forward to stop the war as the common people are suffering,” she said while the US-based ...

Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division on Tuesday also rejected the writ filed challenging the legality of the Election Commission’s gazette that declared Md Shahabuddin as president. The Appellate Division Justice Md Jahangir Hossain rejected the writ. Now, there is no legal bar for Md Shahabuddin to take oath as president, according to the court order. Attorney general Sheikh Mohammad ...

The National Moon-sighting committee will sit on Wednesday (March 22) evening to decide the start of the holy month of Ramadan. Shaila Sharmin, a spokesperson for the Islamic Foundation, said the committee will meet at Baitul Mukarram at 6:30pm after Mugrib prayer to decide the date. If the moon of Ramadan is sighted on Wednesday evening, Ramadan will start on ...

Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin on Monday said Bangladesh requires US$ 373 billion to implement its National Adaptation Plan (NAP) in the next 27 years, with US$ 8.5 billion per year as new and additional finance. “For the full implementation of the (Nationally determined contributions) NDC targets of Bangladesh, it needs US$ 143 billion from international ...

The relationship of a former senior police officer with Dubai based gold-trader Arav Khan, who is accused in the police murder case, is being investigated, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Abdullah Al Mamun has said. “We are looking into the matter sincerely and you will get the information at the appropriate time,” the IGP told journalists in Chattogram on Monday ...

A dog of Rapid Action Battalion’s (RAB) Dog Squad has been awarded for its heroic performance. For the first time in the country, a RAB Dog Squad’s dog has been awarded the ‘RAB Director General Award’ for its heroic service during the search work at the damaged building in Gulistan after explosion on March 7. It helped to recover three ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday asked all concerned to find a way out to ensure sustainable export growth and explore new global markets for Bangladeshi goods in the context of Ukraine war. “Steps will have to be taken to achieve sustainable export growth after analysing situation steamed from the global economic recession due to the war in Ukraine,” she ...

The tenth death anniversary of former President Zillur Rahman, a veteran politician, a Language Movement hero, an organiser of the Liberation War and one of the close associates of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is today. Zillur Rahman died of old-age complications at a Singapore hospital on March 20 in 2013, BSS reports. He started his political career as a volunteer ...

Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the people of the country will never allow the BNP-Jamaat alliance to assume power again to play ducks and drakes with their fate. “Those who carried out bomb, grenade and bullet attacks, smuggled in 10-truck arms and misappropriated the money of the public and the orphans will never ...