Bangladesh

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked the filmmakers to produce life-oriented decent movies to keep the people away from wrongdoings and offenses in the society. “The life-oriented arts and cinemas attract the people much. The reason is that the people get the reflection of their own life from there. A cinema can change the life of a person or ...

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Thursday questioned intentions of some people who are talking against Bangladesh and its leader Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, noting that to them “grapes are sour.” “It does not matter much. It’s unrealistic and not objective,” he told reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when a reporter sought his comment on an appeal by ...

Law Minister Anisul Huq on Thursday said that there is no foreign pressure on the government about the upcoming national election. “If foreigners want to know (about election), we don’t mind telling them about it as we do not do politics of killings or lies. We don’t hide anything, so we have no objection and no hesitation to let the ...

Reserved seat MP-elect (Woman seat-50) Afroza Haque took oath as a member of the 11th Parliament today. Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury administered the swearing-in at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. Parliament Secretariat’s Senior Secretary K M Abdus Salam conducted the oath-taking ceremony. Deputy Speaker Shamsul Haque, Whip Iqbalur Rahim and lawmakers Shirin Akhter and Wasika Ayesha Khan were present at ...

Gulistan building explosion death toll has risen to 22 as another burn victim succumbed to his injuries on Thursday. Md Yasin Arafat, 26, succumbed at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery while he was undergoing treatment there. With this, the death toll from the explosion has risen to 22. Dr Samanta ...

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered to maintain the status quo on taking the two Japanese children of Bangladesh-born US citizen Imran Sharif and Japanese national Nakano Erico out of the country. A seven-member bench of the Appellate Division, led by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique, passed the order and asked the authorities concerned to dispose ...

The Law Ministry on Thursday received a petition seeking another extended suspension of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s jail term sent by the Homer Ministry. “We have received a file from the Home Ministry regarding the extension of Khaleda Zia’s conditional release. We’ll send it back to the Home Ministry with our recommendations,” Law Minister Anisul Huq told UNB on Thursday. ...

Gulistan explosion death toll has risen to 20 as another injured has died while undergoing treatment at a hospital in the capital. Hafez Musa Haider, 42, succumbed to his injuries at Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute at about 11:00pm on Wednesday. Resident physician of the emergency department of the institute Dr SM Ayub Hossain confirmed about the ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today witnessed the annual Joy Bangla Concert commemorating the historic March 7 speech of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed and Bangabandhu’s grandson and Center for Research and Information (CRI) trustee Radwan Mujib Siddiq accompanied the Prime Minister. Earlier, the premier arrived in Dhaka in the ...

Qatar will provide 1.27 million US dollars to Dhaka through Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) to support Bangladesh’s education sector through expanding opportunities for 6.5 lakh out of school children at primary level. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Bangladesh and Qatar was signed in under the project Education Above All Foundation during the sidelines event of the UNLDC5 conference ...