Bangladesh

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday lodged a protest with the Government of Myanmar over the killing of a Bangladeshi fisherman by the Myanmar Navy on Wednesday. The victim was Usman, 60, who hailed from Kona Para at Shah Porir Dwip in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar. In a diplomatic note sent to the Embassy of Myanmar in Dhaka, ...

Former food minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder, former chairman of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) Md Nazibur Rahman and former home secretary Md Aminul Islam Khan were sent to jail after the end of their remand periods in separate murder cases. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mehedi Hasan passed the order as police produced Sadhan before the court after the end ...

The government directed Bangladesh ambassador to Saudi Arabia Mohammad Javed Patwary to return home on August 14 last. However, he has returned though two months have already been passed following the issuance of the directive. Mohammad Javed Patwary, also the former inspector general of police (IGP), was appointed ambassador to Saudi Arabia on contractual basis. It is learnt that he ...

A total of 150 stranded Bangladeshi nationals were repatriated from Libya on Thursday. The repatriation has taken place under the joint initiative of the foreign ministry, Bangladesh Embassy in Tripoli and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), a foreign ministry’s press release said. A Buraq Air charter flight with the returnees departed Tripoli in the morning and landed at Hazrat ...

Acting Chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Tarique Rahman today underscored the need for holding fair elections for continuation of democracy. “We must hold a free and fair election aiming to keep the country’s democracy continue,” he said in a message marking Shaheed Jehad Day. Nazir Uddin Ahmed Jihad, a Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal activist of Ullapara upazila in Sirajganj, was ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus’s press wing has clarified that his recent remarks on “pressing the reset button” in an interview with Voice of America is being misinterpreted by some people. “He (Prof Yunus) did not mean wiping out Bangladesh’s proud history,” chief adviser’s press wing said in a statement on Thursday, reports UNB. When the Chief Adviser Prof Yunus ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday praised Russia’s cooperation in the power and energy sectors and acknowledged Russia’s role as a supplier of wheat and fertiliser to Bangladesh. These issues were discussed when Russian Ambassador to Bangladesh Alexander V Mantytskiy paid a farewell call on the Chief Adviser at his Tejgaon office in the capital, reports UNB. He said ...

The corruption rate from the government’s allocation for the roads and highways sector was between 23 to 40 percent during the period of fiscal year FY 2009-10 to FY 2022-23. The government allocated Tk 169,449 crore for the Roads and Highways Department, of which 23-40 percent or equivalent to Tk 29,230 crore and Tk 50,835 crore was embezzled, said a ...

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has made 10-pont proposals for the interim government to reform the state including restoration of caretaker government system. The party’s Nayebe Ameer Syed Abdullah Md Taher unveiled the proposals at a press conference held at Hotel Westin at Gulshan-1 in Dhaka early Wednesday (October 9) afternoon. Later, Jamaat Ameer Shafiqur Rahman said they had as many as 41-point ...

Newly appointed 23 additional judges at the High Court were sworn in on Wednesday (October 9). Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed administered the oath to the new judges at the Judges’ Lounge of the Supreme Court. SC Registrar General Aziz Ahemd conducted the function where justices of the both Appellate and HC divisions were present. President Mohammed Shahabuddin has appointed ...