Bangladesh

Jatiya Party (JaPa) has nominated its mayoral candidates for five city corporation polls. The five city corporations are Gazipur, Sylhet, Khulna, Rajshahi and Barishal. The nominated candidates are MM Niaz Uddin in Gazipur; Md Saiful Islam Swapan in Rajshahi; Md Shafiqul Islam Modhu in Khulna; Engineer Md Iqbal Hossain Taposh in Barishal and Md Nazrul Islam Babul in Sylhet. The ...

Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen has shared the outline of Bangladesh’s recently released Indo-Pacific outlook. The US side noted a number of areas of convergence between the two countries’ respective Indo-Pacific documents. Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen briefed his US counterpart about various measures taken by Bangladesh’s Election Commission to pave the way for free and fair elections at both ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will return her Gulshan residence from Evercare Hospital on Thursday afternoon after five days’ of medical checkup. The Chairperson’s press wing member Shamsuzzaman Dider said Khaleda Zia is expected to go home today as per her doctor’s advise. A member of her medical board said on Wednesday that Khaleda Zia is now better than before. There ...

Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, is being celebrated in the country on Thursday. Buddha Purnima marks Gautama Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death. On this day in 563 BC, Buddha was born as Siddhartha Gautama in Kapilabastu at the foothill of the Himalayas, reports UNB. He attained supreme enlightenment at the age of 35 and finally ...

The High Court granted bail to Mamunul Haque in 5 cases filed in Dhaka’s Paltan and Chittagong’s Hathazari police stations. The High Court bench of Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and Justice Aminul Islam passed the order on Wednesday (May 3). Advocate Helal Uddin Molla confirmed the matter. Bangladesh Khilafat Majlis leader Maulana Mamunul Haque came to the discussion on May ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Washington DC for London on Thursday to attend the coronation of Charles III and his wife Camilla as the king and the queen of the United Kingdom (UK) and the other Commonwealth realms. A United Airlines flight carrying the prime minister and her entourage members will depart from the Dulles International Airport in Washington ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the countrymen to stay alert as the anti-liberation elements, killers and arson terrorists never return to power. “Make sure that the killers, anti-liberation elements and war criminals never return to power again,” she told a civic reception accorded to her by expatriate Bangladeshis in the USA at The Ritz-Carlton hotel’s Hall Room in Washington ...

There is no bar to execute the two death row convicts in the Rajshahi University Professor S Taher Ahmed murder case as the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court published the full text of verdict rejecting the review petitions. The eight-member bench of the Appellate Division, led by Chief justice Hasan Foez Siddique, published the 21-page verdict on Wednesday. The ...

Bangladesh Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Dr Mohammad Javed Patwaryhas held a meeting with Mazen bin Hamad Al Hamali, the head of the Makkah branch of the Saudi Foreign Ministry, over the evacuation process of Bangladeshis wanting to leave Sudan. Ambassador Patwary gave a preliminary assurance to the Saudi authorities that every effort would be made to send the Bangladeshis returning ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said Bangladesh wants the United States as a long-term productive partner for increasing global competitiveness, and expand the export base to become a “developing” country in 2026. “We shall need support to increase our global competitiveness and expand the export base. I am optimistic that the United States would become our long-term productive partner ...