Bangladesh

Muslims across Bangladesh will celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr on Monday, marking the end of a month of fasting as the Shawwal moon was sighted on Sunday evening. With thousands already leaving Dhaka to reunite with family in their hometowns, the capital is preparing for a day of festivity and prayer. The main Eid congregation will be held at the National Eidgah grounds ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is expected to return to Bangladesh from London in mid-April, though the date is not yet confirmed, according to BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. Speaking to reporters at the BNP Chairperson’s office in Gulshan, Fakhrul said, “What I have heard is that Madam (Khaleda) will return home in mid-April, but it is still not ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has extended his heartfelt greetings to the people of Bangladesh on the occasion of holy Eid-ul-Fitr. In a message shared on his verified Facebook account, he stated that after nearly one and a half decades, the people of Bangladesh would celebrate Eid in a free, fearless, and democratic environment following the departure of Sheikh Hasina’s ...

Thousands of Muslims across multiple districts in Bangladesh, including Chandpur, Faridpur, Dinajpur, Pirojpur, and Noakhali, observed Eid-ul-Fitr on Sunday—one day ahead of the national celebration—following the moon sighting practices of Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern nations. In Chandpur, at least 40 villages, including the Sadra Darbar Sharif in Hajiganj Upazila, marked the occasion. Pirzada Mufti Arif Chowdhury of Sadra ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Friday invited top Chinese companies to invest in Bangladesh and make the country a manufacturing hub to export their products to the West and Asia. The Chief Adviser hosted four interactive meetings with more than 100 leading entrepreneurs and CEOs of China to share how Bangladesh is now open for business. He also described ...

National Citizen Party’s Chief Organiser (North) Sarjis Alam said, “Want to see Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus in power for five years.” He expressed this desire in a Facebook post on Saturday. “I will always have the desire to have a statesman like Prof Yunus as the prime minister of an elected government of Bangladesh for five years.” Meanwhile, netizens ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Saturday urged students to imagine big things always aiming to change the world, reports BSS. “A university or educational institution is not only a place to learn what happen, but imagine,” he said while addressing a function at Peking University (PKU) in Beijing this morning. Noting imagination is the greatest power of the earth, ...

After the massive earthquakes in Myanmar and Thailand, now Bangladesh is at a risk of earthquakes as well. The Fire Service and Civil Defense said that the areas of Chittagong, Sylhet, Mymensingh and Dhaka are particularly at high risk. It has urged public and relevant stakeholders to take precautionary measures to reduce the impact of possible earthquakes, said a press ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus received an honorary doctorate degree from Peking University (PKU) in China on Saturday morning. The PKU conferred the honorary doctorate on the Bangladesh chief adviser at a function held at the university conference hall in Beijing. Chief Adviser Prof Yunus also delivered a lecture on the occasion. After wrapping up his four-day China tour, he ...

Dhaka’s proposal to arrange a meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus has gone unanswered by New Delhi. On Friday, India’s Ministry of External Affairs released a media statement detailing Modi’s schedule for the upcoming BIMSTEC summit in Bangkok, Thailand. Notably, the statement made no mention of a bilateral meeting with Yunus. Instead, it highlighted ...