Bangladesh

BNP Secretary General and Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and his wife Rahat Ara Begum left for Singapore on Monday night for medical check-ups. They departed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at around 11:55pm on a Singapore Airlines flight. Shayrul Kabir Khan, a member of the BNP’s media cell, said that the visit is for ...

The Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has detained former Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury from her Dhanmondi residence early today. According to sources, she was taken into DB custody at around 4:30am on Tuesday from her residence on Road 8/A in the Dhanmondi area of the capital. The DB has not yet issued any ...

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Monday approved five development projects with an estimated total cost of Tk483.43 crore. Of the total project cost, Tk390.84 crore will be financed from the government exchequer, while Tk92.59 crore will be sourced through project loans or grants. The approval came at the ninth ECNEC meeting of the 2025-26 fiscal ...

The Australian government officially cancelled the visa of prominent Bangladeshi Islamic scholar Shaykh Ahmadullah on Sunday. The Department of Home Affairs took the decision following similar action against popular religious speaker Mizanur Rahman Azhari. The authorities enforced the measure as Ahmadullah prepared to depart from Sydney Airport. It follows the forced departure of Azhari over allegations of praising Hitler and ...

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman on Monday warned that the opposition alliance will implement the referendum verdict with or without the support of the parliament to prevent a return of fascist rule in the country. The people voted in favour of crucial state reforms by choosing “yes” in the referendum, and the Jamaat-led 11-party alliance has always supported people’s “supreme ...

A European Union (EU) delegation led by its Ambassador to Bangladesh Michael Miller on Monday met Prime Minister Tarique Rahman. The meeting was held at the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Division office in the Bangladesh Secretariat here, said the PM’s deputy press secretary, Jahidul Islam Rony.

The body of Abdullah Al Mamun, a Bangladeshi worker who was killed in Saudi Arabia after being burnt in a missile attack during the Middle East war, has reached the country. Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Ariful Haque Choudhury received the body at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) at 9:45am on Monday, after it arrived by a Saudi Airlines ...

Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury on Monday said members of the current parliament have Tk3,330.08 crore in default loans. However, he mentioned that a portion of this sum can be regarded as regular loans due to court suspension orders on classifying these as default, and related legal complexities. He revealed the information in reply to a question from Cumilla-4 ...

A legal notice has been sent to the relevant government authorities seeking a ban on the departure of outgoing interim government Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus from the country. The notice was issued on Monday by M Ashraful Islam, a lawyer of the Supreme Court. The notice was served over allegations of involvement in transferring the measles vaccination programme from state ...

The government currently has no plans to close primary schools or shift to online classes despite the ongoing measles outbreak and fuel crisis, said State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Bobby Hajjaj on Monday. he described that the classes are on line. He stated while responding to reporters after inspecting infrastructure and academic activities at several primary schools in ...