Bangladesh

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said that the summer cyclone will likely occur in the Bay of Bengal around May 9. IMD Director General Mrutunjay Mohapatra said the guidance of numerical models indicates the formation of a cyclonic storm around May 9, but its movement and intensification may be determined after the low-pressure area forms on May 7. Cyclone ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 jolted Dhaka and its adjacent areas on Friday morning, according to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department. The quake hit around 5:57am and lasted eight seconds. According to the United States Geological Survey website, the quake’s epicentre was 14 kilometres East South East (ESE) of Dohar upazila. No casualties or fire hazards were reported immediately.

A 20-member Rohingya delegation, who were forcibly displaced from Myanmar staying in Bangladesh camps, left for Myanmar state on Friday morning to inspect the facilities prepared by the government there ahead of a repatriation of the first batch of refugees. They were accompanied by seven government officials led by Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner in Cox’s Bazar Mohammed Mizanur Rahman. ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday night arrived London from Washington DC to attend the coronation of Charles III and his wife Camilla as the King and the Queen Consort of the United Kingdom (UK) and the other Commonwealth realms. A United Airlines flight carrying the prime minister and her entourage members landed at the Heathrow International Airport in London ...

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has alleged that the government has been working against independence and it should not be allowed to come to power again in any way. “It’s a matter of regret and shame  that Awami League has taken a stance against independence now. During the Liberation War our aim and expectation was to establish a ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has returned to her house from the Evercare Hospital in Dhaka after a five-day stay in the hospital. She reached her ‘Firoza’ residence at Gulshan at about 6.20pm on Thursday. Earlier,  Khaleda Zia was admitted to the hospital on April 29. Former prime minister Khaleda Zia, 77, has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, ...

Jatiya Party (JaPa) has nominated its mayoral candidates for five city corporation polls. The five city corporations are Gazipur, Sylhet, Khulna, Rajshahi and Barishal. The nominated candidates are MM Niaz Uddin in Gazipur; Md Saiful Islam Swapan in Rajshahi; Md Shafiqul Islam Modhu in Khulna; Engineer Md Iqbal Hossain Taposh in Barishal and Md Nazrul Islam Babul in Sylhet. The ...

Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen has shared the outline of Bangladesh’s recently released Indo-Pacific outlook. The US side noted a number of areas of convergence between the two countries’ respective Indo-Pacific documents. Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen briefed his US counterpart about various measures taken by Bangladesh’s Election Commission to pave the way for free and fair elections at both ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will return her Gulshan residence from Evercare Hospital on Thursday afternoon after five days’ of medical checkup. The Chairperson’s press wing member Shamsuzzaman Dider said Khaleda Zia is expected to go home today as per her doctor’s advise. A member of her medical board said on Wednesday that Khaleda Zia is now better than before. There ...

Buddha Purnima, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist community, is being celebrated in the country on Thursday. Buddha Purnima marks Gautama Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death. On this day in 563 BC, Buddha was born as Siddhartha Gautama in Kapilabastu at the foothill of the Himalayas, reports UNB. He attained supreme enlightenment at the age of 35 and finally ...