Bangladesh

The tenth death anniversary of former President Zillur Rahman, a veteran politician, a Language Movement hero, an organiser of the Liberation War and one of the close associates of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is today. Zillur Rahman died of old-age complications at a Singapore hospital on March 20 in 2013, BSS reports. He started his political career as a volunteer ...

Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the people of the country will never allow the BNP-Jamaat alliance to assume power again to play ducks and drakes with their fate. “Those who carried out bomb, grenade and bullet attacks, smuggled in 10-truck arms and misappropriated the money of the public and the orphans will never ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said that India can use ports in Chattogram and Sylhet if they want. The Prime Minister said this while Member of the Governing Council of India Foundation, Ram Madhav, called on her at her official residence Ganabhaban. PM’s Deputy Press Secretary KM Shakhawat Moon briefed reporters after the meeting. Sheikh Hasina said that the ...

A Dhaka court on Sunday framed charges against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and four others in the Niko graft case. The trial of the case formally began today through charge framing. Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-9 Judge Sheikh Hafizur Rahman framed the charges and set May 23 for deposition in the case. Three other accused former acting secretary for energy ministry ...

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said traders have agreed to reduce the prices of sugar by Tk 5 per kg after the reduction in import duty on both raw and refined sugar last month. “As the import duty has been slashed, the prices of sugar can be reduced by Tk 4.5. However, we have requested the traders to reduce it by ...

Two more victims among the nine critically injured in Madaripur’s Shibchar expressway bus accident succumbed to their injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). At least 25 passengers were injured. Of them, some were sent to Shibchar Upazila Health Complex, while critically injured nine were to DMCH. Total 18 people died on the spot and two at Dhaka Medical College ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) to play an effective role in maintaining peace, security and stability to smoothen Bangladesh’s journey towards a developed and prosperous country by 2026. “We have to forward as developed country. We have time as we will start journey as a developed country by 2026. We’re preparing from now ...

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narenda Modi have inaugurated the first ever cross-border energy pipeline between Bangladesh and India. They opened the ‘India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline’ by pressing a button via video-conference as Sheikh Hasina joined the function from her official Ganabhaban residence in Dhaka while Narendra Modi from India on Saturday (March 18, 2023), reports BSS. ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has alleged that the Awami League government follows two main principles — siphoning of money and indulging in corruption. “This state has turned into a failed state. This state must be corrected. As the country was freed through the War of Liberation, it will have to be reformed to run afresh. We must ...

M A Taher Mia, former Lakshmipur district Awami League General Secretary and former Mayor of Lakshmipur Municipality heroic Freedom Fighter, died of old-age complications at his residence in Lakshmipur today. He was 74. He breathed his last at his residence in Lakshmipur in the afternoon, said his family sources. He is survived by his wife, three sons and two daughters. ...