Bangladesh

The Bangladesh Railway is going to start trial run of a special train on Mawa-Bhanga section crossing through the Padma Bridge on Thursday morning. The train will start its journey from Kamalapur Railway Station at 8:45am and will reach Bhanga at 11.54am, senior information officer of the Railways Ministry Siraj ud Doula Khan told BSS. Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan, ...

The Hindu community is celebrating Janmashtami, marking the birth of Lord Krishna, on Wednesday with due religious fervour. According to Hindu religion, Lord Vishnu incarnated in the universe as Lord Krishna in the prison of Raja Kangsa on this day, the eighth of “Shukla Pakkha” in the month of Bhadra in Dwapara Yuga in order to protect “Dharma” from the ...

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved a Taka 12,951.51 crore for a total of 17 projects. The approval came from a meeting of the ECNEC with its chairperson and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair held at the NEC Conference Room in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area on Tuesday, BSS reports. Briefing reporters ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has called upon all the opposition political parties to take to the street to press home one point demand. He made the call while speaking at a discussion organised on the occasion of Ganasanghati Andolon’s founding anniversary in the capital on Tuesday afternoon. The BNP Secretary General said, “No matter whether you are ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has expressed profound concern over “continued intimidation and harassment” of human rights advocates and civil society leaders through legal proceedings in Bangladesh, including Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus. He has also called on the Bangladeshi authorities to create a safe and enabling environment for human rights defenders and other civil society representatives to ...

Bangladesh and the USA in the 9th Security Dialogue in Dhaka on Tuesday agreed to strengthen cooperation in both civil and military security domains. The dialogue covered various traditional and non-tradition security issues of mutual interests, including Indo-Pacific outlook of Bangladesh and the Indo-Pacific Strategy of the USA, said a release of Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA). The discussed issues ...

The much-talked about Cyber Security Bill-2023 was placed in parliament on Tuesday amid strong objection from an opposition bench member. The new law is being framed scrapping the controversial Digital Security Act (DSA). However, the controversial sections of the DSA have been kept same in the Cyber Security Act (CSA). However, offences in some cases of the new bill have ...

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on health sector cooperation on Tuesday (Aug 5) on behalf of their respective governments. The MOU is aimed at enhancing cooperation between the two countries in primary and secondary care, health resilience and health financing, among others, through training, exchange programs, joint ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin along with wife Dr Rebecca Sultana on Tuesday joined the opening ceremony of 43rd ASEAN Summit in Indonesia’s Jakarta. The opening ceremony of the Summit was held at Jakarta convention center with the theme of “ASEAN Matters: Epicentrum of Growth”. Indonesian President Joko Jokowi Widodo officially opened the summit, BSS reports. President Shahabuddin also participated in a ...

The cabinet on Monday cleared the draft of the ‘Ansar Battalion Act 2023’, making the maximum penalty for the offenses of rebellion or attempted rebellion, participation in rebellion and inciting conspiracy to death. Apart from this, the provision of punishment for various terms, including life-term, has been made in the law. The draft law was approved in the cabinet meeting ...