Bangladesh

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md. Shahriar Alam on Tuesday (May 30) said the friendship between Bangladesh and the United States has deepened and broadened to the length that allows the two countries to frankly debate on their differences. Addressing a special photo exhibition styled, “Roots of Friendship: 50 Years of US-Bangladesh Relations”, he said the growing engagement between the ...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday filed a case against Chairman of Grameen Communications Dr Muhammad Yunus and 12 others on charge of misappropriating about Tk 25 crore of Grameen Telecom’s Workers Profit Participation Fund. Gulshan Anowar Prodhan, deputy director of the ACC, filed the case with its integrated district office. The top officials of the anti-graft body confirmed it. ...

■ Sunil Singha ■ As part of the long-standing cooperation between India and Bangladesh in the field of Science & Technology, the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) hosted a Joint Scientific Symposium in partnership with India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Dhaka on 30 May 2023. The subject of the Symposium was “Advanced Functional ...

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal will place a national budget of over Tk 7.61 lakh crore for the next fiscal year (FY24) at the Jatiya Sangsad on Thursday (June 1) with a major focus on containing inflation, generating jobs, efforts towards building a ‘Smart Bangladesh’ and addressing the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). The budget size of Tk ...

The High Court has upheld a trial court verdict that sentenced BNP leaders Aman Ullah Aman and his wife Sabera Aman to jail in corruption cases. An HC bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Khizir Hayat Lizu delivered the judgement after dismissing the appeals filed by Aman and his wife challenging the lower court verdict. The HC ...

The High Court on Tuesday upheld BNP leader Iqbal Hassan Mahmood Tuku’s nine years’ jail term given by a trial court in a graft case. The court also ordered him to surrender within two weeks before a trial court. An HC bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Khijir Hayat pronounced the judgement. ACC Deputy Director Golam Shahrier ...

Bangladesh wants Britain’s cooperation in tackling climate-related risk, said Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin on Monday. “According to the National Adaptation Plan (NAP), Bangladesh needs a huge amount of money to implement 113 programmes. It is difficult for Bangladesh to implement and achieve climate tolerance without international and bilateral cooperation. So we are expecting cooperation and ...

While Bangladesh seeks to diversify its economy and in particular its exports, it also should improve working conditions and wages in the RMG sector and beyond, said a UN expert on Monday. “There is ample room for increasing the minimum wage,” UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Olivier De Schutter at the end of a 12-day visit ...

Bangladesh and China on Sunday reviewed the ongoing efforts for repatriation of the Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar smoothly and on an expedited basis. Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen thanked the Chinese government for making sincere efforts for the safe and quick repatriation of the displaced population, UNB reports. Momen and Vice Foreign Minister of China Sun Weidon agreed ...

A court in Dhaka on Monday set July 13 for holding hearing on charge framing in the Barapukuria Coalmine graft case against BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and 10 others. The date was announced by Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman of Dhaka Special Judge Court-2, as the defence lawyers pleaded for time on Begum Zia’s poor health ground. The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) ...