Bangladesh

The nation is observing the Martyred Intellectuals Day today to commemorate the intellectuals killed systematically by Pakistan occupation forces and their local collaborators at the fag-end of the Liberation War in 1971. On this day in 1971, the country’s renowned academicians, doctors, engineers, journalists, artists, teachers and other eminent personalities were dragged out of their homes, blindfolded and taken to ...

The BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health (BRAC JPGSPH), BRAC University, celebrated its 20th anniversary today (12 December 2024) at The Westin Hotels and Resorts, Gulshan-2, Dhaka. The day-long event brought together distinguished global public health leaders, academics, and experts to celebrate two decades of impactful education, training, research, and advocacy. The experts, academics honored the School’s contributions ...

Families of the victims of the 2009 BDR mutiny have demanded the restoration of the Border Guard Bangladesh’s (BGB) former name, Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), along with eight other pressing demands aimed at seeking justice and recognition for the tragedy. At a press conference held on Friday at the National Press Club’s Zahur Hossain Chowdhury Hall, the demands were presented by ...

Noted poet Helal Hafiz passed away in Dhaka on Friday afternoon. He was 76. The Bangla Academy Award winning poet was declared dead when he was taken to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU). The BSMMU authorities said Helal Hafiz suffered from brain hemorrhage falling in the bathroom of Super Hostel, a residential facility at Paribagh area, at about 2:30pm. ...

Timor-Leste President José Ramos-Horta will arrive Bangladesh on Saturday (December 14) at the invitation of Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus. The President will lead a high-level an 18-member delegation, including the minister of foreign affairs, the president’s chief adviser, and other senior officials. Foreign Secretary Md Jashin Uddin informed the media at a press briefing, held at the Ministry of ...

A total of 85 Bangladeshi citizens returned home from war-torn Lebanon on Friday. They returned on an Ethiopian flight. Officials from the government and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) welcome the returnees at the airport, said a foreign ministry press release. All the returnees received Tk 5,000 in cash, some food items and initial treatment. Some 1,048 Bangladeshis have, ...

The interim government will form a task force soon to check air pollution and it will work till the next monsoon. Syeda Rizwana Hasan Environment, Forest, and Climate Change shared the information during an inter-ministerial meeting held at the Local Government Division’s conference room in the Secretariat in Dhaka on Thursday. She said the government is making every effort to ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday (December 12, 2024) conveyed a message to people from party’s Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman, urging them to remain patient to have the democracy restored through a national election. “Our acting chairman has urged you (people) to remain patient. We must all act with unity and patience to restore democracy, ensuring that ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Thursday reiterated his call to the South Asian leaders to activate the SAARC to bring for the people of entire region. “South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is very important to me. I spoke about activating the forum immediately after taking oath as the chief adviser,” he said, reports BSS. The Chief Adviser ...

Sixteen Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel have been detained for their involvement in different crimes since August 5, said its Director General Additional IGP AKM Shahidur Rahman on Thursday. “The law and order situation deteriorated after August 5. Later, RAB members started working to bring the situation under control. While doing this work, 16 members got involved in various crimes. ...