Bangladesh

BNP Acting Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed has said that National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam was an inspiration behind all major movements in Bangladesh. Rizvi made the remarks after paying tribute to Kazi Nazrul Islam at the poet’s grave on the Dhaka University campus on Thursday morning, marking the 50th death anniversary of the National Poet. “From our independence ...

South Korea is set to launch its first visa application centre in Bangladesh on Wednesday next week, aiming to make visa applications more convenient and improve the efficiency of visa-related services. Following the opening, applications for ordinary visas will be handled exclusively through the Visa Application Center. However, the Embassy will continue to directly accept applications for, and issue passports ...

Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Md Asaduzzaman has urged all to unite and work together to prepare a roadmap to prevent the rehabilitation of fascism. “Let us work together to prepare a roadmap to prevent the rehabilitation of fascism and ensure that we do not become fascists. Let us move forward together and focus on building our nation,” he ...

A Dhaka court on Wednesday sent Bidisha Ershad, former second wife of late president and Jatiya Party founder Hussain Muhammad Ershad, to jail after rejecting her bail petition in a fraud case filed with Gulshan Police Station. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Aminul Islam Junaid passed the order after a hearing in the afternoon, said public prosecutor Syed Golam Murtuza Ibn-e-Islam. Bidisha’s ...

People throughout the country are observing the holy Eid-e-Miladunnabi today with due religious solemnity, commemorating the birth and death anniversary of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH). In Dhaka, thousands of people gathered at the historic Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital to celebrate Eid-e-Miladunnabi (SA), where devotees from Dhaka and different parts of the country started arriving at the venue in the ...

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Humaiun Kobir has renounced his British citizenship, and there was no violation of the law in his oath-taking as state minister, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Md Asaduzzaman said on Tuesday. “As far as State Minister Humaiun Kobir is concerned, he has renounced his British citizenship. There was no violation of the law in ...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Tuesday expressed its willingness to extend full cooperation to Bangladesh in its overall reform process, including legal and judicial reforms and constitutional amendments. The UNDP has shown the keenness when its Resident Representative Stephen Rodriques paid a courtesy call on the Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed at his ministry office in Bangladesh Secretariat in ...

Denmark’s support will play an effective role in addressing Dhaka’s growing demand for safe drinking water and tackling the capital’s water crisis, Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives Minister Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan has said. He said Denmark could become an important partner of Bangladesh in water supply, waste management and development assistance, including investment in infrastructure projects. The minister ...

Jamaat-e-Islami will hold a long march from Dhaka’s Shapla Chattar to Chattogram’s Laldighi Maidan on 5 September, with roadside rallies at several points along the route, the party’s Secretary General Mia Golam Parwar said on Tuesday. Speaking at a briefing at the party’s central office, Parwar said the march would begin at 7:00 AM from Shapla Chattar and is expected ...

NCP Chairman and lawmaker Hasnat Abdullah has accused State Minister of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Humayun Kabir of dodging a question with regard to renunciation of his British citizenship. In an open letter on Facebook posted late Monday evening, Hasnat opined that the answer should be straightforward either yes or no and if Kabir had indeed renounced his citizenship he ...