Bangladesh

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday inaugurated the National Insurance Day-2023 to enhance public awareness about the insurance. She opened the day at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) here this morning to promote the idea of insurance across the country. The Ministry of Finance and the Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority (IDRA) jointly organised the programme. The Day is ...

Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan he does not know whether the sale of train tickets in black market would be stopped completely or not. He further said that they are trying to stop black marketing of train tickets. The minister made the remarks while addressing journalists after visiting Kamalapur Railway Station in the capital on Wednesday. According to the new ...

Awami League general secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader left Dhaka on Wednesday for Singapore for his routine health check-up. He left Dhaka on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight at 8:30 am. The AL general secretary will return to Dhaka on March 3 after the health check-up at Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital.

Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina reiterated her appeal to the countrymen to vote for her party’s election symbol “Boat” to continue the current government’s endeavors to ensure the country’s overall development. “The next national election will be held in December next or January, 2024. I urge you to again vote for the “Boat” and bring Awami ...

BNP on Tuesday voiced concern that the ongoing economic crisis and growing inflation have turned into a national crisis, leaving common people in the lurch. Speaking at a press conference at the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office, party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir also said the nation will not get rid of the ongoing economic crisis unless the ‘corrupt and ...

A Dhaka court has ordered seizing three bank accounts and a house of former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and his brother Ananta Kumar Sinha in the US. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Asaduzzaman passed the order following a petition filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission’s deputy director Md. Gulshan Anwar, also the investigation officer of the case. ACC Assistant Director ...

The results of primary scholarship examinations-2022 have been suspended four hours after its publication. Directorate of Primary Education suspended the results by sending an e-mail to all district primary education officers at 5 pm on Tuesday. However, the reason behind suspension of the results was not informed. The e-mail sent to the district primary education officials said that the revised ...

Dhaka has invited Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to pay a bilateral visit in Bangladesh in September this year, foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said on Monday. “We have invited him (Trudeau) he will visit India in September to join the G20 summit, if he manage to come here that time it will be a plus plus,” he told media ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reached the Haor upazila Mithamain in Kishoreganj district. A helicopter carrying the Premier reached Mithamain around 10:55am on Tuesday. She inaugurated the newly constructed Freedom Fighter Abdul Hamid Cantonment at 11:20am. Sheikh Hasina addresses a rally in President Abdul Hamid’s village home at Kamalpur after lunch.  

  British High Commission Dhaka yesterday held a reception to celebrate the England men’s cricket team’s visit to Bangladesh and the upcoming ODI and T20I cricket series between England and Bangladesh. Players from both Bangladesh and England cricket teams, along with technical and coaching staff attended the reception. British Deputy High Commissioner Javed Patel welcomed guests and said: “I am ...