Bangladesh

Foreign Minister Dr Khalilur Rahman held a series of bilateral meetings with key counterparts on the sidelines of the OIC Executive Meeting on Palestine in Jeddah, reaffirming Bangladesh’s stance on Palestine and boosting diplomatic engagement. The Foreign Minister met Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar of Pakistan, Vice Foreign Minister Waleed A. Elkhreiji of Saudi Arabia, ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has said that the state honors distinguished and knowledgeable people for its own necessity. ”A nation becomes more enlightened in prosperity and moral standards as the number of accomplished individuals in society continues to grow.” PM Tarique Rahman made the remarks while addressing the Ekushey Padak-2026 distribution ceremony at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium on Thursday morning. ...

The High Court on Thursday granted six-month ad-interim bail to former Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) mayor Selina Hayat Ivy in five cases filed with Fatullah and Narayanganj Sadar Model police stations. The order was issued by a bench of Justice KM Zahid Sarwar and Justice Sheikh Abu Taher. Four of the cases relate to the killings of Abul Hossain Miji, ...

  Muhammed Shahed Rahman: A seminar on Bangladesh’s elections and relations with its neighbors, including India, was recently held in London. On Tuesday (February 24, 2026) evening, a seminar titled ‘Post-election Bangladesh’s Relations with India and its Neighbors’ was held at a hall in St. James’s Park, Central London, organized by the ‘Link India’ think tank (charity). The participants of ...

A Dhaka court here on Thursday ordered issuance of a Red Notice through Interpol to arrest Tulip Siddiq, niece of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in a case filed over allegedly taking a flat illegally from a private developer in the capital’s Gulshan-2 area. Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Sabbir Faiz passed the order, allowing a petition filed by ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Thursday said the current government will work to establish a liberal democratic state system with moral standards and dignity so that the country can move forward in all branches of knowledge and science, including education, literature, arts, science and technology. “I believe that politicizing education, research, arts and literature is never a sign of a ...

Palestine has withdrawn its candidate for the presidency of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly. Following the withdrawal of the Palestinian candidature, Bangladesh will now compete with Cyprus, a diplomatic source told UNB on Thursday. Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has nominated Foreign Minister Dr Khalilur Rahman for the position, said the source. Bangladesh floated her candidature ahead of ...

A cabinet meeting was held in the conference room of the Cabinet Division in the Bangladesh Secretariat here on Thursday. Prime Minister Tarique Rahman chaired the meeting, said Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Saleh Shibly. According to relevant sources, the first cabinet meeting was held on 18 February, a day after the swearing-in ceremony on 17 February. However, as it was ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has conferred the country’s second-highest civilian award “Ekushey Padak-2026”. The award giving ceremony began at 11:00am on Thursday at the capital’s Osmani Memorial Auditorium. Nine distinguished individuals and one institution have been honoured with this prestigious award this year in recognition of their outstanding and notable contributions in various fields. The award recipients are: Farida Akhtar ...

The process to appoint new governor for the Bangladesh Bank, replacing Dr Ahsan H Mansur, is currently underway. According to the sources, the Financial Institutions Division of the Ministry of Finance has submitted a proposal regarding the appointment to Finance Minister Ameer Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, who has reportedly approved it. Once the Prime Minister gives his consent, the proposal will ...