Bangladesh

A delegation of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) met with diplomats of Sweden, Norway and Denmark on Sunday. The meeting took place at the residence of Swedish Ambassador to Bangladesh Nicolas Weeks at Gulshan in the capital around 9:20AM, said BNP media cell members Shyrul Kabir Khan. The diplomats included Weeks, Norwegian Ambassador Arald Gulbrandsen and Deputy Head of Mission of ...

Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s former principal secretary and former lawmaker from Jamalpur-5 constituency Abul Kalam Azad was arrested on Saturday (October 5). Abul Kalam Azad was arrested by the Detective Branch (DB) from Dhanmondi in the capital in the evening, said Rezaul Karim Mallick, additional police commissioner and chief of the DB of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). The DB ...

Former DUCSU VP and lawmaker Sultan Mohammad Mansur Ahmed has been sent to jail in a case filed over the murder of Juba Dal leader Shamim Mollah. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sharifur Rahman passed the order on Saturday (October 5). The investigation officer of the case produced him before the court after end of his five-day remand in the case and ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has called upon Chief Adviser to the interim government Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus to take necessary steps against former chief justice ABM Khairul Huque bringing sedition charges against him for destroying the constitution and abolishing caretaker government system. Terming him as the “mastermind,” of destroying the constitution and abolishing the caretaker government system, the BNP also ...

Chief of Army Staff Gen Waker-Uz Zaman on Saturday paid a courtesy call on President Mohammed Shahabuddin at Bangabhaban. During the meeting, the president was apprised of the overall activities of the force by the army chief. Mohammed Shahabuddin said the Bangladesh Army is playing a commendable role in the welfare of the countrymen and providing security to the lives ...

Former President Prof AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury passed away at a hospital in the capital early Saturday. He was 94. He breathed his last at 3:15AM while undergoing treatment at the Uttara Women’s Medical College, his Press Secretary Jahangir Alam confirmed. Badruddoza Chowdhury was the founder of this hospital. He is survived by his wife, a son, two daughters, and a ...

Reassuring decent working conditions, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Friday said his government will give immediate attention to the fresh entry of 18,000 Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia in the first phase subject to all conditions are met, reports UNB. “We have discussed the whole system. And we have gone through very transparent procedures. We need workers but they can’t ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin has called upon Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to facilitate the entry of more skilled and semi-skilled workers from Bangladesh into Malaysia. The President made the request during a meeting with the Malaysian PM at Bangabhaban on Friday, reports UNB. Welcoming Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim with flowers, President Shahabuddin expressed optimism that the bilateral relations between Bangladesh ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus held a brief one-to-one talk with visiting Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport today (Friday). Prof. Yunus said he was “very happy” to welcome his old friend in Dhaka. During the meeting, the Chief Adviser spoke briefly on the student-led movement, sacrifices the students and people and the carnage committed by ...

Former Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder has been placed on a seven-day remand in a case filed with Tejgaon Police Station over the killing of a student during the recent Quota Reform Movement. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saifuddin Hossain granted the remand after Soyad Imrul Sahed, sub-inspector of Badda Police Station and investigation officer of the case, produced the former minister ...