Bangladesh

Gulistan building explosion death toll has risen to 22 as another burn victim succumbed to his injuries on Thursday. Md Yasin Arafat, 26, succumbed at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery while he was undergoing treatment there. With this, the death toll from the explosion has risen to 22. Dr Samanta ...

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered to maintain the status quo on taking the two Japanese children of Bangladesh-born US citizen Imran Sharif and Japanese national Nakano Erico out of the country. A seven-member bench of the Appellate Division, led by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique, passed the order and asked the authorities concerned to dispose ...

The Law Ministry on Thursday received a petition seeking another extended suspension of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s jail term sent by the Homer Ministry. “We have received a file from the Home Ministry regarding the extension of Khaleda Zia’s conditional release. We’ll send it back to the Home Ministry with our recommendations,” Law Minister Anisul Huq told UNB on Thursday. ...

Gulistan explosion death toll has risen to 20 as another injured has died while undergoing treatment at a hospital in the capital. Hafez Musa Haider, 42, succumbed to his injuries at Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute at about 11:00pm on Wednesday. Resident physician of the emergency department of the institute Dr SM Ayub Hossain confirmed about the ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today witnessed the annual Joy Bangla Concert commemorating the historic March 7 speech of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed and Bangabandhu’s grandson and Center for Research and Information (CRI) trustee Radwan Mujib Siddiq accompanied the Prime Minister. Earlier, the premier arrived in Dhaka in the ...

Qatar will provide 1.27 million US dollars to Dhaka through Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) to support Bangladesh’s education sector through expanding opportunities for 6.5 lakh out of school children at primary level. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Bangladesh and Qatar was signed in under the project Education Above All Foundation during the sidelines event of the UNLDC5 conference ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home from Doha, the Capital of Qatar, this afternoon after attending the 5th United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDC5: From Potential to Prosperity). A special VVIP flight (BG-126) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the prime minister and her entourage members landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka around 03:30pm. Earlier, the flight departed ...

Firefighting units have started their rescue operation for the second day this morning at the building in Siddique Bazar of Dhaka’s Gulistan, where 17 people lost their lives in a deadly explosion yesterday. Three firefighting units started the rescue operation around 9 am but no one has been rescued yet, said Khaleda Yeasmin, duty officer of the Fire Service Control ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Doha for home on Wednesday morning wrapping her four-day official visit to Qatar. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the premier and her entourage departed Hamad International Airport at 8:00am local time (11am BD time). The flight is scheduled to land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka at 3:00pm, reports UNB. Hasina arrived ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday asked the Bangladeshi expatriates to strictly abide by the laws of the host countries and send remittances through legal channels. “It won’t be tolerated anymore if any person commits offenses (in host country) and thus tarnishes the country’s image,” she said while addressing a civic reception accorded to her at Bangladesh MHM School here ...