Bangladesh

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday summoned Jakob Etaat, Chargé d’Affaires of the Swedish Embassy in Dhaka, to protest the burning of a copy of the Holy Quran outside a mosque in Stockholm. On Wednesday, as Muslims celebrated Eid-ul-Azha, Salwan Momika, a 37-year-old Iraqi who is said to have fled to Sweden several years ago, tore up and set ...

More rain is likely across the country over 24 hours, starting from 9 am today, as monsoon is active, Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) predicted. “Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind are likely to occur at most places in Rangpur, Rajshahi, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions; and at many places in Khulna, Dhaka, Barishal and Chattogram divisions ...

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said her target is to change the fate of the countrymen. “My target is to change the fate of the people of Bangladesh,” she said in an introductory speech at Tungipara Upazila Awami League office while exchanging greetings and views with people of all strata of lives of Tungipara on ...

The first return hajj flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines with 419 pilgrims will arrive in Dhaka on Monday (July 3). The national flag carrier’s aircraft is scheduled to land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 6:05am with the pilgrims. It will left Saudi Arabia on Sunday night. The return flights will continue till August 2. A total of 1,22,884 people ...

Offices, banks, insurance companies and share market reopened on Sunday (July 2) after four-day of holy Eid-ul-Azha holiday and one day weekend ended on Saturday. But presence of officials and employees are fewer on the first day after Eid vacation. Joining respective workplaces on Sunday, ministers, state ministers, secretaries, officials and employees exchanged Eid greetings. From Saturday night, Dhaka started ...

Offices, banks, insurance companies, and share market are going to open on Sunday The holy Eid-ul-Azha’s four-day holiday and one day weekend ended on Saturday. Offices, courts, banks, insurance companies, and stock markets are going to open on Sunday (July 2). Eid-ul-Azha, one of the biggest festivals of Muslim Ummah, is celebrated across the country on Thursday with honour of ...

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has called upon the people of the country to boycott those “on a mission to destroy the country.” “People are with us. Complaining to foreigners will bring no benefits,” he told reporters at the Foreign Service Academy in Dhaka on Saturday, reports UNB. Earlier, visiting Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chair of ...

The government itself will have to find out a way holding dialogues with all political parties to resolve the current political crisis in the country, said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. “If the government does have any feeling for the country’s people and if they have any patriotism, they will have to find out a way discussing with ...

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Saturday sought vote for her party’s electoral symbol ‘Boat’ in the next general election. “The Awami League has brought the country’s independence, given its economic emancipation, socio-economic development and arranged food, clothes and accommodation for its people (countrymen). So, vote for the Awami League’s electoral symbol ‘Boat’ in the next general ...

On the occasion of the seventh anniversary of the Holey Artisan Bakery attack, Italy, Japan, India, the United States and Bangladesh on Saturday remembered and honoured those whose lives were tragically lost on July 1, 2016 during a terrorist attack in Dhaka’s Gulshan area. A memorial plaque was inaugurated in the Italian Embassy in Dhaka on the occasion. Representatives of ...