Bangladesh

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has sought more robust action to ensure safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene for all in healthcare facilities. Globally, 78 percent healthcare facilities had a basic water service and 51 percent had basic hygiene ensured in 2021, reports UNB. Around 10 percent of these facilities used by 780 million people had no sanitation. “Against this ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged all to work for building a golden Bangladesh free from hunger and poverty. “Let us join hands to build the Golden Bangladesh, free from hunger and poverty, by upholding the ideology of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,” she said, UNB reports. She made the call in a recorded radio ...

Elaborate programmes have been taken to mark the Independence and National Day-2023 on March 26. The day’s programmes will begin with heralding gun salute early in the morning across the country, including the capital city Dhaka, BSS reports. President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina are scheduled to lay wreaths at the National Memorial in Savar, outskirts of ...

The nation is observing the Genocide Day on Saturday in remembrance of the brutality carried out by Pakistani Army on the unarmed Bangalees on the black night of March 25 in 1971 under the infamous “Operation Searchlight”. The Ministry of Liberation War Affairs has taken various programmes to observe the Genocide Day on March 25 at state level with due ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon all, including global people, to build a society based on equality and free from all kinds of discrimination and sectarianism. “We follow Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s peace policy in running the country,” she said in a message on the eve of the Genocide Day-2023. The Prime Minister said, “We ...

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has no freedom of expression in his party’s internal politics as the party is run on the prescription of a convicted fugitive. “We understand the pain of Mirza Fakhrul Alamgir. In fact, Mirza Fakhrul has no freedom of expression in the internal politics of ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has cautioned that their party will remain in field even in the holy month of Ramadana to press home their 10-point demands including election under a caretaker government. He also announced that sit-in will be held at all metropolitan cities and district headquarters on April 1 and at all thana headquarters on April ...

Focusing on the source-to-sea approach to water cooperation, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has stressed the need for sustainable water management for promoting global peace and stability. Momen presided over the plenary session of the UN 2023 Water Conference Thursday. He chaired the third plenary session of the conference. The foreign minister also delivered the closing remarks at the high-level ...

Interpol has issued a red notice against Rabiul Islam alias Arav Khan, a fugitive in the police officer murder case. He is the 63rd Bangladeshi to be in the Interpol’s wanted list. On March 20, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun said that the Interpol has accepted the letter sent by Bangladesh Police to bring back Arav Khan, ...

The US State Department 2022 report stating that elections in Bangladesh were not free, fair and impartial, extrajudicial killings, forced disappearance, and obstructing the freedom of expression etc will be analysed, said Seheli Sabrin, spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She stated it at a weekly media briefing held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday (March 23). ...