Bangladesh

Bangladesh is operating four chartered flights from Sudan, at its own cost, to evacuate 555 Bangladeshi citizens to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Three of the chartered flights will be operated today, while the fourth will be operated tomorrow, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam told reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday. He said the government has ...

Jatiya Party (JaPa) chairman GM Quader has predicted that the next general election may give birth to major incidents in the history of Bangladesh. “The incidents may be good or bad. Confrontation and conflict may arise, while politics may be subjected to suppression or repression,” he said. “In fact, there are problems in the country’s politics, but we don’t see ...

BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman’s close friend Giausuddin Al Mamun has filed a petition seeking stay on charge framing order in the Niko graft case. Khurshid Alam Khan, lawyer of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), confirmed about the petition on Wednesday. “The copy of the plea now in my hand,” he said. On March 19, Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-9 Judge Sheikh ...

European Union (EU) Ambassador to Bangladesh Charles Whiteley on Tuesday said they are not here to ‘mediate or interfere’ in politics in Bangladesh but they are here to meet and listen to all political parties to understand the situation, reports UNB. He, however, said they “of course, want to see free and fair elections” in Bangladesh without any violence and ...

Noted economist Professor Nurul Islam, former deputy chairman of the first planning commission, died of old age complications in the early hours of Tuesday in Washington DC of the United States. He was 94. Bangladesh High Commission in Washington DC sources confirmed it. Nurul Islam was one of the closest advisors to and confidants of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu ...

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said the government has once again started the ‘old game’ of arresting and harassing BNP leaders and activists to clear the field before the next general election. “The way they completely controlled the 2014 and 2018 elections and took the results in their favour, today they have again started the same ...

A Dhaka court has sentenced Dubai’s gold trader Arav Khan to 10 years in jail in an arms act case. Judge Murshid Ahmed of Dhaka’s Special Tribunal-14 announced the verdict in his absence on Tuesday. The judge also fined him Tk 10,000, in default, of which he will have to serve three more months in jail. The punishment of the ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home from London on Tuesday morning wrapping up her 15-day official visit to Japan, the US and the UK. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the premier, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 10:05am. Earlier, the flight departed Heathrow International Airport, London, at 6:25pm on Monday (London Time). On April ...

The fourteenth death anniversary of eminent nuclear scientist with international repute and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s husband Dr MA Wazed Miah (Sudha Miah) today, reports BSS The nuclear scientist, who has a colorful working life experience, was born on February 16, 1942 in a respectable Muslim family of Laldighee Fatehpur village in Pirganj upazila of Rangpur. He died on May ...

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal is expected to present the national budget for FY2023-24 in Parliament on June 1, a ministry spokesman said on Monday. The finance division got the approval of relevant official documents on Monday as part of the preparation, Gazi Tawhidul Islam, public relations officer of the Finance Ministry, told UNB. In the documents, responsibilities on the ...