Bangladesh

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has formed an investigation committee to determine the cause of a technical glitch in a flight carrying Prime Minister Tarique Rahman from Japan. The four-member committee has been asked to submit its report within four working days. The committee was formed through an office order signed on Friday by Air Commodore Md Niamul Kabir, Director of Administration ...

The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has recovered a motorcycle suspected to have been used by former Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) officer Flight Lieutenant KM Tahsif Sauri, whose body was found in the Turag River, as investigators continue probing his death. Mohammad Abu Yusuf, superintendent of police (Law and Media Wing) of the PBI, said on Friday morning that the ...

United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ambassador to Bangladesh HE Abdulla Ali AlHmoudi held a meeting with technology leaders in Dhaka to discuss potential bilateral cooperation across key technological sectors, including artificial intelligence (AI) and smart-city initiatives. The discussions were held with Martin Yates, Government Technology Advisor of the UAE Executive Leadership Team at Presight, and Major General (retd) Md Ashikuzzaman, ndc, ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman reached Dhaka on a regular flight early Friday following a four-day official tour to Japan. The flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 2:48am on Friday. Earlier, the aircraft left Tokyo for Dhaka at 7:55pm Thursday Bangladesh time, after engineers fixed a technical glitch that had delayed the flight by ...

BNP-nominated candidate Mirza Faisal Amin has been unofficially declared the winner of the Thakurgaon-1 by-election, contesting with the party’s sheaf of paddy symbol. District Returning Officer and District Election Officer Kamrul Islam announced the unofficial result on Thursday night (October 29). Voting in the by-election was held from 8AM to 4PM on Thursday. A total of 21 platoons of Border ...

The Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight carrying Prime Minister Tarique Rahman and his entourage has departed from Japan’s Narita International Airport for Dhaka, five hours behind schedule, after a technical fault delayed its departure. The flight took off for Dhaka at around 10:45 pm local time in Japan on Thursday. A member of the prime minister’s entourage confirmed the information to ...

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has sentenced Mahbubul Alam Hanif, joint general secretary of the now-banned Awami League, to death in a crimes against humanity case over the killings of six people in Kushtia during the July mass uprising. A three-member bench of International Crimes Tribunal-2, headed by Justice Nazrul Islam Chowdhury, delivered the verdict on Thursday (29 October). The ...

Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Md Asaduzzaman on Thursday said artificial intelligence (AI) would pose the biggest challenge to the judiciary in the coming days. “When you rely on AI to write judgments or record signatures and statements, there is a risk that justice will be defeated,” he said, warning that AI could now imitate people’s voices with such ...

Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed on Thursday urged police to earn public trust through professionalism, impartiality and humane conduct, stressing equal legal protection for all citizens. “Police must earn people’s confidence, ensure their security and provide legal services to everyone equally,” he said at the passing-out parade of 246 trainee officers at the Bangladesh Police Academy in Sardah, Rajshahi. The graduates ...

BNP-nominated candidate Mirza Faisal Amin and Jamaat-e-Islami candidate Delwar Hossain cast their votes in the by-election to the Thakurgaon-1 constituency on Thursday morning. Faisal Amin voted at Thakurgaon Government Girls’ High School polling centre around 8am. Before and after casting his vote, he exchanged greetings with voters present at the centre. Talking to journalists after voting, Faisal Amin expressed confidence ...