Bangladesh

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam on Wednesday said the China-led Global Development Initiative (GDI) is a new phenomenon and there is nothing to share until something is done from Bangladesh side. He said there is a committee in place which will look into it. “We are yet to reach any such stage regarding GDI,” he said while ...

The High Court on Wednesday dismissed three separate income tax reference cases filed by Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus challenging the notice of National Board of Revenue (NBR). Now, Dr Yunus have to pay Tk 12 crore to NBR as tax. Earlier, he has paid 3 crore as tax, out of 15 crore, while filing an appeal in the trial ...

Considering the office goers’ facilitation, the metro rail will operate from 8am-till 8pm from Wednesday (May 31). Meanwhile, train services will remain closed on Friday instead of Tuesday. This schedule will remain effective from Uttara’s north station to Agargaon. As per the new timing, the trains will run every 10 minutes from 8am-11pm (peak hours), every 15 minutes from 11:01am-3pm ...

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 ...